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Solomon Islands calls for growth in Australia's controversial Pacific Labour program
The Solomon Islands plans to expedite its economic involvement further in the Pa...
Andrew Mathieson 22 Oct 2026
Urgent action needed on family violence services in remote NT communities
There is an urgent need to improve domestic, family and sexual violence services...
Dechlan Brennan 21 Oct 2026
Aboriginal authority at the heart of national regional settlement study
Aboriginal communities will help shape a national research project examining how...
Nicole Brown 19 Oct 2026
Government-built homes aim to ease pressure on overcrowded NT households
Fourteen new homes have been handed over to tenants in Arnhem Land, bringing the...
Dechlan Brennan 17 Oct 2026
'Why should the poor out bush pay more?' Land Council, social justice advocates urge increase to remote area allowance
Central Land Council representatives travelled to Canberra this week to confront...
Giovanni Torre 15 Oct 2026
Man charged with murder over 16-year-old girl's death in remote NT community

Police have charged a man with murder in relation to the death of a 16-year-old girl in the remote Northern Territory community of Alpurrurulam. At 5.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 15, 2026
Aboriginal tenant Joanne Jacobs wins key legal battle over housing rights

In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court of Western Australia found for the first time that public housing tenants across Western Australia have rights under health laws.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 9, 2026
DeadlyScience receives $250,000 to support girls in STEM

Girls from 50 regional and remote New South Wales schools will learn about Aboriginal scientific knowledge and careers in science, technology, engineering and maths through a $250,000 investment in De...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Oct 9, 2026
New homes for Homelands through self-determined investment

Six homes at Banatjarl, near Katherine, have been upgraded as part of a joint Australian and Northern Territory Government program to improve housing and essential infrastructure in remote communities...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 29, 2026
Doesn't happen in cities: Remote communities facing water and essential services issues

The Northern Land Council has called on the Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments to urgently address what it says are persistent failures in essential services affecting remote communities...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 21, 2026
Thousands at risk: New report calls out gap in safe drinking water standards in remote First Nations communities

A new report from the Water Services Association of Australia has found that more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities were supplied with water that did not meet the Australian...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 16, 2026
Aboriginal corporation calls for pause in Tasmanian sand mine proposal

Regional Aboriginal communities in Tasmania are calling on the Dorset Council to reject a development application which would see 770 hectares of the state's North-East coastline mined over the next 4...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Sep 10, 2026
'Breach of basic human rights': Communications outages blight remote communities for weeks on end

A national outage which affected thousands of people's ability to access mobile services "fell short of what Australians rightly expect from us", Telstra's chief executive said last week, but for some...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Sep 8, 2026
More than 300 remote SA homes upgraded under $200m housing program

More than 300 homes across remote South Australia have received upgrades aimed at improving energy efficiency and climate resilience. On Sunday, the Federal and South Australian governments said 343 h...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 6, 2026
Funding backs community-led visions across the Northern Territory

Five projects across remote and regional Northern Territory communities have received funding to strengthen their plans, attract future investment and turn community-led visions into reality.

Nicole Brown Nicole Brown Aug 31, 2026
New, improved and mobile laundry facilities for remote communities to tackle preventable disease

Remote First Nations communities and homelands across Northern Australia will set up new, or upgrade existing, community laundry facilities, aimed in-part at targeting preventable illnesses.

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Aug 27, 2026
Tax Clinic program to support First Nations, remote communities

Remote communities, including First Nations communities, are set to benefit from free tax assistance and education under the Federal Government's National Tax Clinic program.

Callan Morse Callan Morse Aug 26, 2026
Kimberley region coming to its Census

While 2026 Census night last Tuesday week is all but a memory for most survey participants, the hard work was just beginning for local support teams in Australia's vast north-west region.

David Prestipino David Prestipino Aug 20, 2026
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