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Free Wi-Fi rollout to support remote First Nations communities
Key points:- Free community Wi-Fi will be rolled out in Mapoon, Lockhart River a...
Joseph Guenzler 25 May 2026
No funding spent under $842 million NT remote Aboriginal services agreement, documents reveal
Money from a joint $842 million Commonwealth-Northern Territory funding agreemen...
Dechlan Brennan 25 May 2026
‘We must work as a country’: Indigenous ministers urge vaccinations amid record diphtheria outbreak
Indigenous Ministers have urged Australians to vaccinate amid the nation's large...
Alexandra Giorgianni 25 May 2026
NT Government the 'most racist' I've seen: Lidia Thorpe
Aboriginal people are "homeless on our own country", Senator Lidia Thorpe has to...
Dechlan Brennan 20 May 2026
Indigenous legal advocates condemn lack of funding boost in federal budget
Indigenous legal services will continue turning clients away after Tuesday's fed...
Dechlan Brennan 13 May 2026
Populist, harmful policies driving incarceration, child removals: Human Rights Commission

First Peoples communities continue to be the hardest hit by "populist, blunt and harmful" laws, the Australian Human Rights Commission says. While there has been progress on some Closing the Gap targe...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 4, 2026
Alberta separatism in Canada: 'One of the most troubling times in my lifetime for First Nations people'

With the threat of separatism from Canada and annexation by the United States, persistent treaty violations, fast-tracked resource development projects, and ongoing societal issues, the present moment...

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Thomas Law Apr 28, 2026
Bringing sovereign capability back to First Nations people

Last month, ABC journalist Patricia Karvales reported that "Sovereignty means nothing to normal people". The comment ignores that sovereignty means everything to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

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Bec Blurton Apr 28, 2026
Transparency at the foundation of $842 million in remote NT funding

New Commonwealth funding agreements with Aboriginal organisations delivering services in remote NT will be bound by strict governance and accountability mechanisms to help ensure the $842 million woul...

David Prestipino David Prestipino Apr 24, 2026
Strengthening Partnerships to Close the Gap Conference to bring together extraordinary line-up of Indigenous leaders

The Strengthening Partnerships to Close the Gap Conference will bring together Indigenous leaders and other key figures in the nation's capital this month to discuss turning around the Close the Gap a...

Closing the Gap at risk without urgent focus on urban Indigenous health, experts warn

Closing the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia will remain out of reach without urgent, targeted investment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services i...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 16, 2026
Senator Thorpe alleges PM refused meeting with deaths in custody families

Thirty-five years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, it has been alleged that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused to meet with the families of some of those whose deaths...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 15, 2026
First Nations-led suicide prevention paper calls for culture-centred reform

Warning: The following article contains references to suicide, which may be distressing to some readersA suicide prevention priorities paper — described as the first of its kind, developed entir...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 10, 2026
Free community Wi-Fi on the way for dozens of remote NT communities

For many remote Northern Territory communities, free public Wi-Fi will soon become an important link to healthcare, study, essential services and family.

Jackson Clark Jackson Clark Apr 9, 2026
'Gives the Doomadgee community real hope' - Gunawuna Jungai partners in research project to drive reform

Gunawuna Jungai Ltd has become a community partner in the SPARC Research Project (Shared Power for Advocating for Reform Collectively), an initiative designed to "strengthen Indigenous leadership, sha...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 3, 2026
Exclusive: Sue-Anne Hunter is tasked with holding governments to account for the treatment of Indigenous children, and she isn't backing down

Sue-Anne Hunter does not speak like a bureaucrat, nor like someone shaped by years inside the Canberra bubble. Warm, direct and grounded, her no-nonsense vernacular reflects a life spent fighting for...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 31, 2026
Next generation of doctors walk with community in Central Australia

A quiet but powerful shift is happening in the heart of Australia, where medicine is being shaped not just by textbooks and training wards, but by culture, community and connection to Country.

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Mar 27, 2026
Analysis: Policy contradictions, Commonwealth inaction are undermining Closing the Gap outcomes

The annual Closing the Gap Day is intended, at least in principle, to mark steady progress toward eliminating the entrenched disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 23, 2026
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