The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

This week marks the beginning of Jacinda Ardern’s life outside parliament, since she officially ceased to be an electorate MP at midnight last Saturday. Her legacy as prime minister will be discussed and disputed, but there’s no doubt her influence will continue to be felt, both in Aotearoa New Zealand…

Victor Harbor and South Coast residents are warned they need to use their 18-bed private facility rather than heading to Adelaide for health care — or it may close.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption has asked the government not to proceed with any inquiries into the Hills Shire Council while it investigates claims a property developer cut deals with Liberal Party members.

Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millenia and the practice helped reduce bushfire risk in the past, our new research shows.

Yorta Yorta by birth, soprano by diligence — this is how Deborah Cheetham Fraillon is breathing new life into opera.

Former Liberal MP and ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer is setting off on a 14,000km trek around Australia to support an Indigenous voice to parliament.

Mr Dutton has been calling for the urgent deployment of the federal police to the Northern Territory in response to child abuse claims.

The French government is trying to renew dialogue between New Caledonia’s pro and anti-independence groups. Negotiations broke down after a third referendum in 2021 rejected full sovereignty for the Pacific Ocean island group.

Northern Territory Police Minister Kate Worden says she has heard "crickets" from Peter Dutton and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price about their claims that Indigenous children in Alice Springs are being returned to their abusers.

Country Liberal senator Jacinta Price is being urged to report instances of child abuse in the Northern Territory to police rather than make media statements.

Authorities allege two youths assaulted a guard with a makeshift weapon and freed another 11 from their cells