The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

The voice debate has been a long fight – and the blows have landed hardest on First Nations people

At times it has felt like being a punching bag, belted about by unrelated resentments: about welcomes to country, perceived special treatment and nasty stereotypes disguised as jokes

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28, 2023

Slow Syrian repatriation risk to IS defeat, court told

Slow repatriation of women and children from Syrian refugee camps poses a risk to fully defeating Islamic State, lawyers for a group of Australians say.

AAP · Sep 28, 2023

Police funeral for alleged pedophile cop 'a mistake'

A full police funeral provided to a senior officer who died by suicide while being investigated for child abuse offences was regrettable, Tasmania Police says.

AAP · Sep 28, 2023

US actor Steve Martin backs Australian film on Indigenous art movement

Comedian announced as executive producer on Honey Ant Dreamers, about the evolution of the Papunya Western Desert art movement, to be filmed across the Northern Territory

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28, 2023

‘If I could vote twice, I would’: the multicultural communities saying yes to the voice

At a Ballarat forum to discuss the referendum, the sentiment is clear: ‘we can feel what the Aboriginal people are feeling’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28, 2023

NZ Election 2023: latest poll trends show the left regaining some ground and NZ First as possible kingmaker

Yesterday’s 1News-Verian poll, and the Newshub-Reid Research poll reported earlier in the week, both show flattening trend lines – but they are still moving to the right of the political spectrum.

The Conversation · Sep 27, 2023

China lifts trade restrictions as relationship improves – as it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

The Guardian - AU · Sep 27, 2023

University of Newcastle announces stance on the Voice

'It was unanimous that the university should come out in support of the Voice.'

Newcastle Herald · Sep 27, 2023

‘We forgive, but never forget’: yes campaigner Rachel Perkins responds to Warren Mundine on Uluru statement

The Kalkadoon and Arrernte filmmaker speaks to Full Story podcast after prominent voice opponent labelled statement a ‘symbolic declaration of war’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 27, 2023

‘Nothing has been explained’: remote communities deprived of information about the voice, residents say

As early voting gets under way, First Nations people around the country say they still lack details about the referendum

The Guardian - AU · Sep 27, 2023