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Exclusive: Sustained investment needed to strengthen early childhood sector and protect children’s safety
Where early childhood centres put profits ahead of children's safety, there is a...
Dechlan Brennan 28 Oct 2025
Price accuses Liberal colleague of 'cowardly and inappropriate' behaviour
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has launched an extraordinary attack on fellow...
Dechlan Brennan 7 Sep 2025
PM, Dutton encouraged to visit remote communities after expressing heartbreak at Closing the Gap figures
The head of the peak body for Indigenous children says both political leaders' a...
Dechlan Brennan 17 Apr 2025
Bougainville community leaders call for seat at remediation table
Bougainville community leaders have called for representation in discussions ove...
Dechlan Brennan 11 Mar 2025
After controversial sacking 12 months ago, Queensland Police launch new Indigenous advisory body
The Queensland Police Service has "re-established" their Indigenous advisory bod...
Dechlan Brennan 17 Feb 2025
"It's just not so easy to simply forget": Survivors gather for 17th anniversary of stolen generations apology

Speakers at a breakfast commemorating the anniversary of Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generations have lamented the lack of action on the bringing them home report, 28 years onward.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 13, 2025
"Substantial truth" in statement about Central Land Council CEO

Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says there is "substantial truth" in a media release her office issued last year which called for the dismissal of a land council chief executive, court docu...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 7, 2025
SNAICC backs "life-changing" early childhood legislation

Proposed legislation introduced to parliament on Wednesday will scrap the activity test and give thousands more Indigenous children access to early education, experts say.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 5, 2025
“In what other first world country, do we see children dying in custody?” Youth justice hearings open in Canberra

Evidence, rather than "uninformed or deliberately misconstrued narratives," is needed to drive policy around youth justice, a senate hearing has been told.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 3, 2025
Hundreds of homes for Katherine under Labor's Territory infrastructure plan

The Federal Government has announced more than $24 million in funding for a number of community and infrastructure projects across the Northern Territory.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 30, 2025
NT government “playing politics" with Aboriginal children, experts say

A proposed amendment to a law in the Northern Territory making it easier to remove Aboriginal children from their communities continues to be criticised, with the country's largest Indigenous legal or...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 21, 2025
Proposed NT law change will "impact the basic rights of Aboriginal children"

Proposed changes in the Northern Territory making it easier to remove Aboriginal children from their communities has been labelled "unwarranted" and lacking in evidence.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 20, 2025
Focus of Treaty negotiations in Victoria outlined

The priorities for the first round of the Treaty negotiations between the First Peoples' Assembly and the Victorian government have been agreed.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 13, 2025
Exclusive: Aboriginal businesses left in limbo as grant announcements delayed

Aboriginal business people in Victoria have expressed dismay at the lack of communication around a series of government business grants that have been delayed for months.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 13, 2025
Hundreds of men march against domestic violence in Mparntwe

Hundreds of men have marched through the streets of Mparntwe/Alice Springs on Tuesday, calling for the end of domestic and family violence. Signs reading "stop the swearing, bashing and killing," and...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 10, 2024
NAAJA announces board overhaul; new constitution

The largest Indigenous legal organisation in the country has revealed its new governance model, including a new constitution and board, in the wake of a tumultuous 18 months.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 5, 2024
Lidia Thorpe suspended from Senate for remainder of week after racism flare up

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has been suspended by the Senate until the end of Thursday—the last scheduled sitting day of the year.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 27, 2024
“Bold-faced racism at its most vile”: Lidia Thorpe slams Pauline Hanson call to probe Fatima Payman's citizenship

Accusations of racism in the Senate have come to the fore, with a motion by Pauline Hanson to refer Fatima Payman for an investigation over an alleged section 44 citizenship issue, resulting in Lidia...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 27, 2024
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