The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Climate, referendum battles loom as parliament returns

Senate negotiations are still under way as the Albanese government hopes to pass signature climate and referendum reforms through federal parliament.

AAP · Mar 19, 2023

Dominic Perrottet on poking the ClubsNSW beast: ‘I didn’t start with many friends’

The NSW premier explains why he put his career on the line as the days count down to the state election

The Guardian - AU · Mar 19, 2023

Labor's Manuel Brown says support for a Voice to Parliament in Arafura helped secure by-election win

Labor's Manuel Brown made his first public appearance in Darwin following last night's Arafura by-election victory.

ABC News · Mar 19, 2023

Program helps Indigenous student become first in family to graduate high school

A program supporting Indigenous women on their education journeys is having tremendous results in regional NSW.

ABC News · Mar 19, 2023

Puma and Nike's plans to phase out kangaroo leather misguided, industry stakeholders say

The kangaroo industry argues its leather is more sustainable than sheep and cattle equivalents, and say Nike and Puma's decision to phase its use out will actually result in more roos being shot.

ABC News · Mar 19, 2023

Shire of Halls Creek employs Dean Mosquito ahead of Voice to Parliament referendum

As the formal vote on the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament draws closer, one community in WA's far north isn't waiting to take action.

ABC News · Mar 19, 2023

Dozens of new illegal 4WD, bike tracks go over sacred Aboriginal sites in Tasmania every year, map shows

Aboriginal rangers who patrol Preminghana in Tasmania's far north-west say it's being destroyed, little by little, by four-wheel drivers and bikers who stray from the tracks.

ABC News · Mar 18, 2023

NSW election campaigning by Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns puts spotlight on one battleground seat

Following the Liberal and Labor leaders' movements this month has revealed one Sydney battleground seat is getting the most attention, as people in NSW prepare to head to the polls next Saturday.

ABC News · Mar 18, 2023

Birrarangga Film Festival to showcase Indigenous films from around the world in Naarm

A coming-of-age story about unconventional friendships and first crushes, and a story inspired by true events about a police officer who must choose between duty to his badge or his people. These are just some of the films due to screen at the Birrarangga Film Festival, which will showcase Indigenous…

ABC News · Mar 18, 2023

Howard revs up Libs as parties eye off western Sydney

The Liberal faithful have heard party elder John Howard sink the boot into Labor as Chris Minns pledged to ward off privatisation with constitutional change.

AAP · Mar 18, 2023