The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Eoin Mac Giolla R’s judgment says child safety department failed to properly plan for arrival of baby

Former Bathurst mayor Robert "Bobby" Bourke has been sentenced over a blackmail plot involving an anonymous letter to a female councillor who voted against him.

Documents lodged with corporate regulator also show the rightwing advocacy group spent $3.4m campaigning against Indigenous voice proposal

For almost ten years, debate has raged over the book Dark Emu by Aboriginal historian Bruce Pascoe. In it, Pascoe argues many pre-colonial Aboriginal groups were farmers, pointing to examples like eel aquaculture in Victoria, and grain planting and threshing of native millet in the arid centre.

Exclusive: Commissioned during the previous Coalition government, the study polled residents about government services as well as immigration and multiculturalism

An Aboriginal woman forced into state care decades ago has been granted leave to appeal in her fight for $1.8 million compensation over claims she was abused.

A magistrate has reserved her decision on an assault charge against former soldier Heston Russell after "quite conflicting evidence" was put before a court.

The family of slain paramedic Steven Tougher have planted a fig in his memory in an emotional ceremony in Sydney.

Traditional owners and environmentalists have hit back at the Northern Territory government's submission to the Middle Arm Senate inquiry.

A senior court devises a way to stop disputes between hapū being legally fatal to their chances of being recognised for marine rights over the same shores and waters. Tim Murphy reports.

Veteran adviser criticises Tasmanian rightwing powerbroker’s ‘factional warfare’ to ‘blast Bridget out of the party’