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Education system fails Indigenous kids, minister admits

Indigenous children are being denied educational opportunities, with teachers and students facing culturally unsafe environments, an inquiry has been told.

AAP · Jun 14, 2024

First Nations lawyers voice their cases for 'yes' vote

On the eve of the referendum on a First Nations voice to parliament, two respected Indigenous legal experts have prosecuted their arguments for 'yes'.

AAP · Oct 13, 2023

Greg Craven criticised for comments about voice referendum working group

Tony McAvoy SC said Craven had incorrectly labelled the views of the some in the group as ‘misplaced intransigence’ and ‘egotism’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 20, 2023

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Victoria vows to overhaul child protection as Yoorrook Justice Commission begins public hearings

Daniel Andrews says too many First Nations children taken from families and plans to work with minister to ‘devise a new system’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 5, 2022

Yoorrook focus shifts to child protection

Witnesses are giving evidence to an inquiry into the experiences of Aboriginal Victorians in the state's criminal justice and child protection systems.

AAP · Dec 5, 2022

Indigenous cultural fishing report finds NSW government 'failed to effect the will of parliament'

A damning report has found the 13-year-delay in commencing Indigenous cultural fishing legislation reveals the need for cultural change within NSW government.

ABC News · Nov 7, 2022

Resolution calls for raising criminal age

Community leaders, judges and lawyers have called on all state and territory governments to raise the criminal age of responsibility.

AAP · Oct 30, 2022

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What is an Indigenous treaty and how would it work in Australia?

Calls go back decades for a binding agreement between First Nations and the commonwealth. States have started the process but prospects for a federal treaty are less clear

The Guardian - AU · Aug 20, 2022

Failure to decriminalise Indigenous cultural fishing in NSW contradicts Closing the Gap targets, inquiry hears

The failure to implement cultural fishing legislation in NSW has worsened the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people on the South Coast, a state parliamentary inquiry has heard.

ABC News · Aug 19, 2022

Landmark treaty report recommends First Nation government system for Indigenous Territorians

A landmark report outlines the path to multiple treaty agreements between the Northern Territory government and Indigenous people across the territory.

ABC News · Jun 29, 2022

Yoorrook truth-telling commission begins to examine 'brutal ugliness' of Australia's treatment of Aboriginal people

For the first time in Australia's history, a truth-telling commission has begun investigating the nation's brutal history since colonisation, to lay bare systematic abuses against Aboriginal people.

ABC News · Mar 24, 2022

Vic truth-telling hearings set to begin

Victoria's Yoorook Justice Commission will begin public hearings by March or April, as its deputy chair bats away reports of infighting.

AAP · Feb 14, 2022

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