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Australia's first National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Sue-Anne Hunter, has condemned the passage of new Victorian legislation which will allow ch...
Economic empowerment of Indigenous communities, much touted by the federal government, is hindered by the absence of constitutional recognition and constitutionally protected rights for First Nations...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has urged Minister Malarndirri McCarthy to follow through on her commitment to impose sanctions on states and territories that undermine Closing the Gap targets, saying Victoria "...
The Australian Child Rights Taskforce has written to the United Nations to support a complaint lodged by the Human Rights Law Centre and Indigenous international law experts Professor Megan Davis and...
Aboriginal Australia is at a crossroads. Traditionally federal Labor governments have offered more on Indigenous policy than the Coalition. There is a dawning realisation among many of us that these d...
Queensland's outgoing human rights commissioner has accused the state's non-Indigenous leaders of "walking the state backwards" from reconciliation.
The Law Council of Australia is urging the Federal Government to address alleged human rights violations against Indigenous Australians. Proposals affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopl...
The federal government has appointed Australia's first permanent National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.
First Peoples Disability Network has condemned the Northern Territory government's youth justice overhaul, reviving spit hoods and abolishing the principle that detention be a last resort, warning the...
The Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap annual data report highlights that where governments are making a concerted effort to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations...
Legal and justice experts and Senator Lidia Thorpe have warned of the danger proposed NT laws represent to children in the Territory. Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent...
The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) is an annual meeting at the UN Headquarters in Geneva focussing on Indigenous people's rights under the UN Declaration on the Rights of...
The Justice Reform Initiative has slammed the Northern Territory government's latest amendments to youth justice laws as "a dangerous and regressive step which will drastically escalate children's inc...