Indigenous Affairs

A generation of Indigenous youth in remote and regional communities is growing up without parents and leaders because of ever-rising incarceration levels. The next generation isn’t even being born.

The lack of consultation and detail in the WA government’s plan to close up to 150 remote Indigenous communities has left people unsure of their future.

A remote NT community where Aboriginal children still aren’t going to school highlights the failure to "close the gap”.

WA’s remote Fitzroy Crossing communities suffer poverty and suicide, while a business set up to benefit them prospers.

Deeply wounded but now fighting back, Aboriginal survivors of Darwin’s Retta Dixon Home tell their stories to the royal commission into child sex abuse.

"Sovereign citizens” are advising Indigenous Australians to operate outside the laws of the land.

Seen as a victory for Aboriginal people in the early 1970s, then a flashpoint for vice in the ’90s, the Block is once again in the spotlight, this time dividing the Indigenous community it was built to serve.

Almost 10 per cent of black children are in state care, and 1000 are taken from their parents each year.