For more than a decade, Antonia Burke travelled across Australia listening to First Nations people describe the impacts of government decisions on their

A court has rejected the Malind-Anim Indigenous community's legal challenge to protect a West Papuan ancestral forest from a planned agricultural development.The ruling favoured the Merauke regency, a...

For 20 years, West Papuan activist Paula Makabory has not set foot in her ancestral homeland. Her family still lives in West Papua, but she has not seen them since she left in 2006.

A three-month-long federal inquiry has heard accounts of widespread abuse, harassment and structural discrimination against First Nations people. Ben Radford reports.

First Nations witnesses brought Parliament evidence of a terrorist bomb and death threats. Government sent empty chairs

In response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its ultimate goal is to criminalize anti-...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following story contains images of someone who has passed away. Traditional Owners and activists have gathered at Pine Gap in the Nort...

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Readers please be advised that this article contains mention of instances of children being taken from their families. The child ‘protection’ crisis Every year, more Aboriginal children are removed from their families and communities by Australia’s child protection systems. In NSW, the number of Aboriginal children entering out-of-home care (OOHC) rose by 25% from the previous year. Across Australia, there are close to 20,000 Aboriginal children living in OOHC, with thousands more on guardianship orders. Nationally, the restoration rates are dismal, with only about 15% of children being reunified with family. In NSW, restoration rates have declined by more than 40% over the last decade. Too often, young people ‘age out’ of care, abandoned by the system and forced into unstable housing, homelessness, and poverty. These are not just figures- these statistics represent the thousands of children displaced from their home with loving family who desperately want them back. Child protection systems are failing our children, families and communities. This truth is not only highlighted in the statistics, but through the dozens of reports, inquiries, and reviews that have exposed this fact for decades. However, this failure is by design, and for the benefit of the colonial agenda. Aboriginal leaders...

An Aboriginal activist has interrogated forestry company staff over their knowledge of cultural heritage as part of her defence against a trespass charge.

and I’m reminded again that language matters. White people tell me this constantly. Use the right language. Tone it down. Be careful how you say it. Be professional. Be strategic. Be calm. Be nice. Because language matters. And yet I keep watching white people use language as a weapon against Aboriginal Peoples every single day. Correcting us. Explaining us. Gaslighting us. Policing us. Speaking over us. Hiding behind policy, process, optics and “good intentions” while Aboriginal Peoples drown under colonial and cultural load. Watching white people collect awards, promotions, praise and recognition for “anti-racism”, “equity” and “reconciliation” while Aboriginal staff are exhausted, isolated, broken and leaving institutions in pieces. Language matters, Bindi. But apparently Aboriginal wellbeing does not. Apparently our pain is inconvenient if it disrupts white comfort. Apparently racism only counts when it is obvious, historical, far away or performed by “bad people”. Not when it is structural. Not when it is institutional. Not when it is hidden inside governance, complaints, exclusion, silencing, over-explaining, reputation management and defensiveness. And now comes the gaslighting. Why aren’t you smiling? Why aren’t you grateful? Why aren’t you more collaborative? Why are you “angry”? Why are you making this difficult? Because I am...

Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a digital duty of care to prevent social media algorithms from incentivising ‘racist’ content

Sing up Eddie Mabo.

Opponents of Brisbane's centrepiece Olympic stadium take their concerns directly to the IOC's headquarters in Switzerland as a critical deadline looms.

Authors including Evelyn Araluen and Melissa Lucashenko say they won’t work with publisher after it dumps Jazz Money’s book illustrated by Matt Chun, who called Bondi victims ‘affluent beneficiaries o...

This article includes the names of Aboriginal People who have died, and mentions instances of racism. History has been made with the announcement of the appointment of Justice Louise Taylor as Chief Magistrate of the ACT – a role that also makes her the Chief Coroner. Justice Taylor is a proud Kamilaroi woman with a long record of leadership in law and justice. She was appointed as the first Aboriginal Resident Judge in the ACT Supreme Court in 2023, and has worked across both ACT and Commonwealth courts. Justice Taylor has also served on the prestigious Law Council of Australia’s Indigenous Legal Issues Committee, and is patron of Sisters in Spirit Aboriginal Corporation. In 2019, she was named ANU Indigenous Alumna of the Year, for her contributions to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights, and access to justice for women in the ACT community. Justice Taylor’s appointment as Chief Magistrate also means she is now the Chief Coroner of the ACT, making her the first known Aboriginal coroner in Australia. In the ACT, magistrates are also coroners, and the Chief Magistrate is also the Chief Coroner. Coronial proceedings are very different to other kinds of law. For example, criminal law...

Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor

Indigenous land defender Lia Yewen speaks to Maxine Betteridge-Moes about living under the shadow of Indonesia’s occupation of West Papua.