The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Linda Burney demands government sort out Aboriginal flag 'secret agreement'

Labor MP says she is disturbed at reports that people have been stopped from using the emblem or hit with bills of more than $2,000

The Guardian - AU · Sep 9, 2019

Dodson, Burney call for government to fund National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

Organisation goes into administration, saying it needs ‘very significant lifeline’

The Guardian - AU · Jun 12, 2019

Gurrumul wins Australia's most prestigious music prize

Australian Music Prize awarded for Djarimirri, an album completed just weeks before the musician’s death

The Guardian - AU · Mar 7, 2019

Gurrumul's posthumous album makes history topping the ARIA charts

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's final album Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow), released posthumously last week, becomes the first in an Australian Indigenous language to top the Australian music charts.

ABC News · Apr 21, 2018

A first taste of the final, boundary-breaking Gurrumul album

The iconic Indigenous singer's family and musical collaborators hope his final album will be a bridge between two worlds.

ABC News · Apr 13, 2018

'We lost our king': How clan leaders broke their lore to secure Gurrumul's legacy

In a rare exception to Yolngu lore, clan leaders have allowed for Gurrumul Yunupingu's name and image to be used as a new documentary gives insight into the late Indigenous musician's life.

ABC News · Apr 12, 2018

‘A mic drop on the nation’: how AB Original’s January 26 galvanised a movement

In the tradition of all great protest songs, AB Original’s 2016 single was uncompromising, accessible and effective

The Guardian - AU · Nov 29, 2017

AB Original on Reclaim Australia, the album: 'Being black, everything you do becomes a protest'

Briggs and Trials’ provocative new album tackles police brutality, deaths in custody and Australia Day head on

The Guardian - AU · Nov 24, 2016