The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Yes campaign ramps up with new $20m ad campaign and rallies around Australia

Launch of ad promoting the yes vote ahead of the voice referendum coincides with Walk for Yes events in major cities

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16, 2023

The week in parliament: a bruising time for the voice and veteran affairs, punctuated by a bit of pop levity

Attacks on Marcia Langton prompt angry responses, Nick Kaldas delivers uncomfortable moments, and Marise Payne takes a bow

The Guardian - AU · Sep 16, 2023

‘Water is life’: Indigenous musicians take Beetaloo basin anti-fracking message to Canberra

Stuart Nuggett and Ray Dimakarri Dixon perform for MPs and call for government’s water trigger to be expanded this year

The Guardian - AU · Sep 15, 2023

Moana vocalist in push to revive threatened Pacific languages through song

Olivia Foa’i and Lorde are among those using indigenous language in music to build culture and connection

The Guardian - AU · Sep 15, 2023

Indigenous people ‘disgusted’ by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s ‘simply wrong’ comments on colonisation, Burney says

No campaign spokeswoman praised by opposition leader Peter Dutton who stopped short of endorsing her claims about the impact of colonisation

The Guardian - AU · Sep 15, 2023

No lasting negative impact of colonisation? Try telling that to survivors of Kinchela

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price needs a better understanding of history if she thinks Indigenous people have only seen positive things from white rule

The Guardian - AU · Sep 14, 2023

Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald review – illuminating biography of Dorothea Mackellar

The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work

The Guardian - AU · Sep 14, 2023

Grattan on Friday: Langton and Price fight with passion and gloves off for beliefs

Anthony Albanese cemented victory in the 2022 election by being mostly highly cautious and having Labor run, by and large, a tight campaign. If he loses the Voice referendum, which is looking very likely, his own overreach and the “yes” campaign’s ill-discipline will carry a good deal of blame.

The Conversation · Sep 14, 2023

Unpacking five key claims from Jacinta Price’s National Press Club address on the voice

We look at the shadow Indigenous Australians minister’s comments on issues including colonisation and the power and composition of the voice to parliament

The Guardian - AU · Sep 14, 2023

‘A betrayal’: Burney condemns Price claim colonisation had no ongoing negative impacts

Burney says Price’s comments are ‘offensive’ and deny the experience of many First Nations families

The Guardian - AU · Sep 14, 2023