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