The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

Co-convener claims other members may follow Thorpe out the door and pushes back on party room decision to support referendum

A Victorian court hears allegations school principal Malka Leifer told a former student "this will help you for your wedding night" while allegedly sexually assaulting her at a school camp. Warning: This story contains details of allegations of sexual abuse.

Police have grave fears for a 78-year-old woman who left a note before disappearing from her north Brisbane home last week.

While Alice Springs is in the national spotlight, temporary liquor restrictions have been introduced in the small West Australian town of Laverton amid ongoing concerns about violence.

Federal Labor is engaged in urgent reform, making up for the “lost decade” under the Coalition. The Voice, industrial relations, climate change, universities, health, Asian-Pacific diplomacy, research and development are all undergoing significant policy review. We can now add the new National Cultural Policy, dubbed Revive.

The government has made concessions on how the Voice to Parliament referendum will be carried out in the hopes of winning over the Liberal Party and its leader Peter Dutton.

As debate continues on alcohol bans in the NT, both of the territory's senators have shared emotional stories of the impact of alcohol in communities.

A 750 hectare parcel of land between Muswellbrook and Singleton, which is believed to have been the site of some of Australia's bloodiest frontier violence, appears to have been saved from a massive mining expansion project.

'Today's announcement is a fresh start.'