The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Chief Minister Natasha Fyles announces tougher bail measures to try to halt a rising level of violent assaults in the territory, a week after the fatal stabbing of a young bottle shop worker.

Victoria's first native title determination in 10 years has been made at a hearing on Eastern Maar country in Warrnambool.

West Coasters might have a taste for the gung-ho but pragmatism has taken a turn for the cautious at an extraordinary Greymouth council meeting.

The first Victorian native title decision in a decade will recognise the land rights of the traditional owners in a southwest Victorian region.

Senator Lidia Thorpe’s defection from the Greens changed the power dynamic in the Senate. Now the government needs two crossbenchers (and the Greens) to pass legislation opposed by the Coalition. Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie and her colleague Tammy Tyrrell can provide those two votes, which puts them in a potentially…

The prime minister is keen to gain bipartisan support on an Indigenous voice to parliament but has told his party room it is possible to succeed without it.

When they died, South Australian half-brothers John Brett and John Westbury were buried in unmarked graves, but now they have permanent memorials to their lives.

Party remains two seats short of governing in its own right as three crossbenchers promise supply

The ABC is predicting the seat of Wollondilly will go to independent Judy Hannan, who says voters in her electorate are frustrated by overdevelopment on Sydney's urban fringe.

Australia is preparing for a referendum to decide on the proposed Voice to parliament for First Nations people. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stated the referendum is likely to happen sometime between October and December this year.

Conservative Tanya Davies has thrown her hat into the ring to become the deputy leader of the NSW Liberals, with at least three MPs eyeing off the top job.