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"The reconciliation process is bigger than a referendum," he said, urging the government and public to confront the country’s "assault on Aboriginal people".

Former Labor senator also says child removals are a way to ‘eradicate a people from the landscape’

Hundreds packed a forum on the voice to parliament in Perth to hear speakers including new Greens First Nations spokesperson Dorinda Cox

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says there is still "a long way to go" to close the gap in his speech on the government's $424 million Closing the Gap plan.

Rapper Beni Bjah and dance theatre company Marrugeku deliver a searing indictment in This is Australia: a reimagining of Childish Gambino's This is America that they're urging Australians to watch on January 26.

The Australian people will soon be asked to vote in a referendum to constitutionally recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a First Nations Voice. Unfortunately, the political debate on this question has become mired in arguments over “detail” that are either ignorant or deceitful about the nature of…

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Special Envoy for Reconciliation Pat Dodson are on a reset mission to the United Nations in New York.

A record 11 Indigenous representatives recently took their seats in the new federal parliament – three in the House of Representatives and eight in the Senate. Of these, nine are women and just two are men.

Earlier prime ministers have heralded false dawns promising First Nations people they would receive the recognition and respect so long denied them.