The Australian Bureau of Statistics is predicting that Australia's Indigenous population will have grown to more than 700,000 in 12 years' time.

But is it possible to have culturally balanced education for indigenous students that allows for the maintenance of language, culture and heritage, given the level of rigidity in the "standardising" of education?

Eva Leon, an elderly Aboriginal woman who rows across a lake in Forster each week to catch a feed, will be branded a criminal by changes before the NSW Government.

He said conditions had improved markedly on the lands and the facility was so successful because it was run by indigenous people and others who understood community issues.

Thousands of indigenous workers seeking millions of dollars in unpaid wages have won a two-week extension on the deadline after which all claims will be capped at $11,000.

The heads of Australian and New Zealand medical schools say understanding Aboriginal culture will help doctors provide better treatment to Indigenous Australians.

It takes just four days for the staff at the Red Dust Healing program to transform an angry young man into someone with respect for others and respect for himself.

Indigenous advocate and author Larissa Behrendt has been named NSW Australian of the Year at an awards ceremony in Sydney.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not represented in our Federal Parliament. Five years ago, they ceased altogether to have a representative voice when the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) was abolished. We have suffered as a result.

The people of Moree knew the late Gamilaraay elder Dave Spearim as a Christian minister but in his home on the Aboriginal ''mission'' he taught his 23 children their forbidden language, songs and dance.