Despite promises to end the Coalition’s Cashless Debit Card, Labor has rebranded the welfare payment system that is compulsory in some Indigenous communities.
Despite being warned it could breach the Racial Discrimination Act, the Coalition government went ahead with a welfare program that punished First Nations people in remote areas.
Following the defeat of the Voice, the Treaty negotiations that began in Victoria this week represent the last active process to give First Nations people agency over the decisions that affect them.
The Yidiyi Festival brings a weekend of joy to Wadeye, a remote community south-west of Darwin stricken by a ‘cost-of-survival’ crisis of overcrowding, unemployment and scant resources.
A hundred years after the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home was established, survivors and families of the Stolen Generations whose childhoods were spent there are trying to reclaim the site.
The impacts of the Howard government’s flawed Intervention are still being felt in Alice Springs almost two decades on, as crime and violence rise and locals feel increasingly uneasy.
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, Tanya Plibersek has defended her decision to halt a goldmine outside Bathurst while at the same time pushing for legislative reform.
After another inquiry cleared the APY Art Centre Collective of wrongdoing in the ‘white hands’ saga, it can be revealed that the scandal contributed to the resignation of the National Gallery’s head curator of First Nations art.
