Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Indigenous Australians

Latest news and comment on Indigenous Australians
  • BARKAA portrait, Australian rapper and musician

    National Indigenous Music awards 2024: Barkaa wins artist of the year

    The Malyangapa Barkindji rapper also won the best music video, while album of the year went to singer-songwriter Dan Sultan
  • Karen Middleton

    Albanese playing with fire as he crab-walks away from makarrata promise

    Karen Middleton
  • The 2024 Natsiaa winner Pitjantjatjara artist Noli Rictor

    Natsiaa 2024: Noli Rictor wins $100,000 award for ‘truly majestic’ painting

  • Celeste Liddle

    New Zealand’s conservative turn sounds chillingly familiar to Indigenous Australians. Here’s why the Māori fight is our fight

    Celeste Liddle
    Every attack on treaty, land rights, language, culture and self-determination for Māori will give Australia’s politicians more justification for their actions, or lack thereof
  • Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy apologises for past injustices committed by the Northern Territory police to Idigenous Territorians at Garma 2024

    Australian Politics
    The next steps after an ‘extraordinary’ apology – Australian politics podcast

  • Liberal senator Linda Reynolds

    Australia news live
    Senator gives evidence at defamation trial – as it happened

  • Anthony Albanese speaking at the Garma festival in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, at the weekend

    What is makarrata and has Albanese broken an election promise?

    The PM’s interpretation of the concept appears to differ from the one Indigenous leaders promote, sparking accusations he is abandoning it in favour of ‘casual conversations’
  • John Lawrence

    NT police commissioner’s apology means nothing without sacking racist officers, top lawyer says

    Former bar association president tells Garma panel ‘there is no due process’ for Aboriginal people in NT courts, and derided Albanese’s pledge for more engagement
    • NT police commissioner apologises for 'injustices' to Indigenous community at Garma 2024 – video

    • Australia news live
      Wong warns Australians in Lebanon to ‘leave immediately’ – as it happened

    • Albanese endorses ‘principle’ of makarrata but stops short of backing truth and justice commission

  • A young Wadeye dancer gets ready to enter the Bungul ceremonial grounds at Garma 2024

    ‘After the Fire’: Gumatj leader Djawa Yunupingu looks to the future – Garma 2024 in pictures

    After the excitement of the voice to parliament referendum energised the Garma festival 12 months ago, the 2024 gathering remains hopeful for the future, placing an emphasis on a new path forward
  • Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy

    NT police commissioner apologises to Indigenous community at Garma festival

    Michael Murphy publicly acknowledges the impact of territory policing on Indigenous Australians over the past 154 years
  • The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, addresses the audience on day two of the Garma festival 2024

    ‘My optimism for a better future still burns’: Anthony Albanese is met with grief and gratitude at annual Garma festival

    Prime minister recommits government to a truth-telling process after ‘soul-crushing’ defeat of last year’s voice to parliament
  • Anthony Albanese at Garma festival

    ‘We have to make a new path,’ Albanese vows, returning to Garma festival after voice defeat

  • Alexis Wright.

    Praiseworthy: why Alexis Wright’s ‘staggering’ epic is sweeping prizes – and challenging readers

  • The Last Stand by Fiona Francois Charcoal drawing

    From Tasmanian cliffs to pig-nosed turtles: $100,000 Hadley’s Art prize – in pictures

  • Centrelink signage is seen in Brisbane

    Consumer watchdog urges crackdown on businesses using Centrepay to cause financial harm

  • Antoinette Braybrook

    ‘Completely outrageous’: Indigenous leaders condemn worsening Closing the Gap data

  • 240801 Closing the Gap thumbnail

    Is there a proven way to help close the gap?

About 6,818 results for Indigenous Australians
1234...