The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Parents and other caregivers typically modify their speech when they talk to babies and young children.

An Aboriginal teen who spent more than two years on remand in a Queensland youth detention centre was in solitary confinement for much of that time.

There is little evidence to suggest Aotearoa New Zealand’s mainstream news media critically evaluate their own reporting on issues about or affecting Māori and te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi). This is concerning, given the negative framing of so much coverage, past and present.

Leading Māori criminal justice minds argue there is value in cultural reports that assist judges when sentencing offenders in court but admit those who produce them could be better regulated.  

As an Arrernte woman, I feel stuck with a choice between systems I do not trust and the fear of giving in to rabid racists

Treatment of disabled Indigenous youth who was regularly kept in room for more than 20 hours a day may amount to torture, advocates say

Findings of prolonged investigation into former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire and the former NSW premier will be released on Thursday

On reflection, Simon Crean was probably the first domino to fall in a certain madness that seized Labor during the Howard era and presaged a decade of turmoil that only settled down under Bill Shorten’s leadership (2013-19).

In this passionate and timely if sometimes tetchy study, the cultural critic argues that Britain should consider race from its own perspective rather than adopt America’s battles

In this week’s federal Newspoll, conducted with a longer-than-usual fieldwork period (June 16–24) from a larger-than-usual sample of 2,303 people, the “no” vote to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament took the lead by 47–43%, reversing a “yes” lead of 46–43% three weeks ago. Newspoll figures are from The Poll Bludger.

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