Indigenous News

A guard has admitted to watching a soccer game on TV in the moments leading up to the death of an Indigenous inmate, an inquest has heard in its first day.

Sick of waiting decades for repairs and new homes, an Indigenous community in WA pools funds to buy two houses, made in China from shipping containers, to house its most vulnerable residents.

Ten years after AFL great Adam Goodes was forced to leave the game, Indigenous player numbers have dwindled, online racist abuse is rife and insiders say elite private schools have dramatically narrowed the talent pathways. How can the league turn it around? 

Smithy Zimran died before he could realise his dream of receiving dialysis on country, but his legacy lives on.

A doctor admits he should have been called to see a woman before she died at the remote Lightning Ridge health centre, during a coronial inquest into her death.

The fight to save the veined doubletail orchid had a breakthrough in the Black Summer bushfires and now elders are leading a series of cultural burns to regenerate the endangered flower.

The High Court of Australia has ruled in favour of the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council, affirming its claim on disputed land in Sydney's Paddington.

WA police commissioner Col Blanch says police "need to be better" after a constable admitted ignoring a warning that a detainee was going to kill himself, then laughed when he did.

More than two years since catastrophic floods in WA's far north devastated a wildlife sanctuary, traditional owners have returned to country.

They depict Māori ancestors, they have been described as cultural treasures, they are made from wood and shell — and they are now returning home after more than a century overseas.

The WA corruption watchdog is reviewing police conduct over an incident where officers twice shoved a man to the ground before tasering him on a Kalgoorlie street.

At 51, Australian-born Māori writer Anne-Marie Te Whiu found she finally had time to reflect on her life. The result is a powerful new poetry collection, Mettle; an expansive collection, which invites readers in.

Charlie Maher has become the first Indigenous man to complete all seven major marathons in the world.

The WA Premier condemns the behaviour of a WA Police constable who dismissed a detainee's threat of suicide and then laughed about his death in custody.

The ABC has obtained a voice recording of a WA police officer laughing about the suicide of an Aboriginal prisoner. It comes as new data shows the state has the highest rates of Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia. 

Almost 80 Northern Territory lawyers have written to the government calling for "external oversight" in the investigation into Kumanjayi White's death in custody, and for the officers involved to be stood down during the probe.

The federal court finds that the federal government failed traditional owners when the former water minister approved a water resource plan she had not read.

Scientists and traditional owners restore oyster reefs once common in Far North Queensland waters.

Financial Counsellors are warning of catastrophic impacts of unregulated gambling, known as "scambling", spreading like wildfire in First Nations communities. New data shows $2.8m in all types of scam losses were reported by First Nations people in the first six months of this year.

Tjiwarl Aboriginal Corporation meets with South African miner Gold Fields in Leinster to sign an agreement for one of the WA's oldest gold mines. 

Wajarri, Badimaya and Wilunyu woman Charmaine Papertalk Green Smith has died. She was a celebrated artist and academic, inducted into the WA Women's Hall of Fame in 2023.

The remote central Queensland town is one of 15 local government areas in the state where alcohol restrictions are in place.

The family of Kumanjayi White, a young Warlpiri man who died in May after plain-clothes police restrained him in an Alice Springs supermarket, sues the NT government for damages.

The South Australian government says it will appoint administrators to run the remote APY Lands in the state's Far North amid concerns over governance. 

The NT Department of Infrastructure and Logistics has been fined $26,000 for destroying a sacred "lightning tree" during construction of a road near a remote Central Australian community.