Why has indigenous policy in this country failed? The federal government must realise that what looks good in Canberra looks very different in Kowanyama or the Kimberley.

Six months after police were called to a public pool because she was doing ''bombs'' near children, a 14-year-old indigenous girl has spent six hours in custody in Tamworth police station.

The Australian Medical Association is calling for a new approach to Indigenous health after what it describes as Governments' shameful failure to address Aboriginal disadvantage in the sector.

The campaign to salvage The Keeping Place, one of the largest collections of indigenous art in Australia, has found a staunch ally in the former High Court judge Michael Kirby. Kirby opened an exhibition of selected works from the collection at the Australian Museum last week.

Archaeologists say a rock painting in Arnhem Land is the nation's oldest dated picture showing Aboriginal people's first contact with the outside world.

Four well-known sportsgrounds would be renamed with Aboriginal titles to recognise the indigenous heritage of the area, under a proposal before Holroyd Council.

Marion Scrymgour is the member for Arafura in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. Arafura is an electorate of more than 200,000 square kilometres that covers her homelands on the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin and large tracts of western and southern Arnhem land.

Organisers of a film project for South Coast Indigenous school children say their work has been chosen for major festivals.

Reconciliation Australia today announced the appointment of Ms Leah Armstrong as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Traditional owners from Arnhem Land are on their way back from the United States with the remains of elders that were taken from burials 62 years ago.

They're educating the educators hoping it will lead to better learning for Aboriginal children.

Reconciliation Australia Co-chairs Mick Dodson and Mark Leibler have announced that founding Board Director Shelley Reys will stand down from her position at the end of National Reconciliation Week—after a decade in the role.

A lawyer's group says the family of an Aboriginal elder, who died while being transported by prison guard contractors in searing heat, should sue the WA Government.

An Indigenous college in Sydney is helping local Aboriginal medical students succeed at university.

Federal parliament will be required to acknowledge indigenous Australians at the first sitting after an election is held.

Income management for non-Indigenous welfare recipients will be rolled out across the Northern Territory from next month, after draft laws passed the Senate.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Howard government’s “national emergency” intervention in 73 prescribed Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In the “name of the child” the basic liberties of Aboriginal people were suspended and a draconian and paternalistic state project of improvement was launched to “stabilise, normalise and then exit” these communities: stabilisation was to take one year and normalisation four.

Indigenous company Bangarra Dance Theatre was the major victor at last night's Australian Dance Awards, winning outstanding performance by a company for its production Fire: A Retrospective.

Imagine reading your daily paper and constantly seeing comments that demonise your family or your friends. Imagine being the subject of disparaging comments dressed up as jokes.

Legislation to extend welfare quarantining across the Northern Territory is set to be debated in the Senate this afternoon. The Racial Discrimination Act has been suspended in the Territory since the federal Intervention enforced income management on Aboriginal people in prescribed communities in 2007.