28-Jul-2010
Remembering history
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.
23-Jul-2010
Indigenous girl locked up after clerical error
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.
21-Jul-2010
AMA releases Indigenous health election wish list
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.
18-Jul-2010
Kirby joins fight to save indigenous art collection
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.
17-Jul-2010
Australia's oldest painting prompts history rethink
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.
15-Jul-2010
Time to pay tribute to our Aboriginal history?
Four well-known sportsgrounds would be renamed with Aboriginal titles to recognise the indigenous heritage of the area, under a proposal before Holroyd Council.
13-Jul-2010
My unsung heroes
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.
08-Jul-2010
School kids' films chosen for major festival
Organisers of a film project for South Coast Indigenous school children say their work has been chosen for major festivals.
05-Jul-2010
Reconciliation Australia appoints new Chief Executive
Reconciliation Australia today announced the appointment of Ms Leah Armstrong as its new Chief Executive Officer.
05-Jul-2010
US gives back Arnhem Land ancestral remains
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.
30-Jun-2010
Bringing Aboriginal culture into the classroom
They're educating the educators hoping it will lead to better learning for Aboriginal children.
29-Jun-2010
Changes to Reconciliation Australia Board announced
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.
29-Jun-2010
Family urged to sue over elder's death
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.
25-Jun-2010
Sydney art exhibition to support Aboriginal students
An Indigenous college in Sydney is helping local Aboriginal medical students succeed at university.
23-Jun-2010
Parliament mandates indigenous ceremony
Federal parliament will be required to acknowledge indigenous Australians at the first sitting after an election is held.
22-Jun-2010
Welfare quarantine for non-Indigenous people
Income management for non-Indigenous welfare recipients will be rolled out across the Northern Territory from next month, after draft laws passed the Senate.
21-Jun-2010
NT intervention three years on: government’s progress report is disturbing
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.
21-Jun-2010
Top honours for Bangarra
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.
18-Jun-2010
Real people affected by racist taunts
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.
16-Jun-2010
Senate debates welfare quarantine extension in NT
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.