The Latest Breaking News from First Nations

The Darwin winter sunset encircled the city with a brilliant gold. As the crowd anticipated the start of the annual Indigenous fashion parades, the room turned dark, and a lone figure appeared.

The Australian government has today released the First Action Plan 2023-2027 and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032. These long-awaited plans detail what the Commonwealth, state and territory governments have agreed to do to progress their…

Choir members are learning and singing in multiple Indigenous languages.

The 55-year-old Aurukun artist has taken out the First Nations art prize in Darwin, for a playful work that was praised for its ‘remarkable execution’

Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has regrown strongly after the big losses of 2016 and 2017, when water temperatures were significantly above the long-term average. While this is good news, it’s largely luck. The reef experienced mass bleaching in 2020 and 2022, but temperatures cooled just in time to…

When it’s hot outside, it’s safer to head for air-conditioned shelter – right?

Australia will go to the polls later this year to decide whether to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Constitution. Meanwhile, South Australia created its own First Nations Voice in March.

Gathering will open with a memorial to beloved festival founder as leaders call on Australians to together ‘change the nation’

Political advertising for the Voice campaign is ramping up, particularly on social media. So, who is the target audience for each campaign’s ad, what are their key messages, and how effective will they be?

For many players, the netball dress is a ‘favourite outfit ever’. But until now the sport’s feminine uniforms have excluded some while annoying many more

Australia can’t address its crises using the same approaches that enabled them — and white men’s firefighting practices haven’t proved effective.