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Indigenous recognition

July 2024

  • The Aboriginal flag next to Australia's coat of arms

    ‘Deeply troubling’ trends found in first Closing the Gap report since voice referendum defeat

    Malarndirri McCarthy suggests bipartisan approach needed for ‘positive change’ as report shows key Indigenous measures sliding backwards
  • A portrait of Matthew Flinders in his naval uniform

    Matthew Flinders, the flute-playing, cat-loving explorer who circumnavigated Australia, is going home – but what of his envoy Bungaree?

    As the British navigator is reburied with pomp and ceremony in his village church, Aboriginal Australians call for respect for the ‘incredibly brave’ man who made the voyage possible
  • A La Trobe University building

    Push to rename La Trobe University due to namesake’s links to ‘genocidal violence’

    Submission to Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry calls for university to cut ties over first governor’s role in colonisation

June 2024

  • Joshua Creamer

    The man leading the biggest murder investigation in Queensland’s history

  • Yoorrook Chair, Professor Eleanor Bourke (left) greets Co-Chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, Aunty Geraldine Atkinson during the launch of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Fitzroy, Melbourne

    Full Story
    Inside Australia’s first truth-telling commission – Full Story podcast

  • Rev Dr Gondarra OAM.

    Rev Dr DJ Gondarra, Yolŋu elder and advocate for political and spiritual freedom, dies aged 79

  • Yingiya Guyula announces Rev Dr DJ Gondarra’s passing in NT Parliament, after longstanding advocate's death on Tuesday

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    Northern Territory politician pays tribute to Yolŋu elder Rev Dr DJ Gondarra - video

  • Australia news live
    Minns ‘really sorry’ final Vivid drone show cancelled with 20 minutes notice – as it happened

  • Anthony Albanese open to Makarrata commission for truth and treaty for Indigenous Australians

April 2024

  • Spears stolen by Cook returned to Aboriginal owners after more than 250 years – video

    Four spears were handed back to their owners, the Aboriginal community of La Perouse, during a ceremony at Trinity College at Cambridge
  • Yes23 supporters at the campaign launch in Brisbane

    Yes campaign groups received more than five times as much in donations as no side in voice referendum

    Single largest donor to the yes side was the Paul Ramsay Foundation, which gave more than $7m
  • The Central Australian Women's Choir perform

    The time for First Nations truth-telling is now – we cannot let lies and division fester

    June Oscar
    Women weave the fabric of Australia’s Indigenous societies together. Hear our voices

February 2024

  • A trail of flooded mining pits cut through deep forest.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Dirty political games’: Suriname is selling its gold and timber – at the cost of tribal land rights

    Communities such as the Saamaka are vocal in opposition to increased mining and logging – but has the country’s claim to fame as the most forested in the world already been fatally undermined?

  • 'We have to listen': PM speaks on anniversary of apology to stolen generations – video

    Anthony Albanese addressed parliament on the 16th anniversary of the national apology to the stolen generations, saying only 11 out of 19 socio-economic outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were improving

    • Closing the Gap will fail without ‘fundamental change’, scathing report finds

    • I asked Lowitja O’Donoghue why she’d lived the life she had. She replied, ‘Because I loved my people’

      Stuart Rintoul

    • Lowitja O’Donoghue, celebrated campaigner for Aboriginal Australians, dies aged 91

January 2024

  • A woman displays an Australian flag on Australia Day

    Australia celebrates ‘lest we forget’ while embracing the opposite to keep some things in the ‘best we forget’ basket

    Julianne Schultz
    A national day should be an opportunity to address historical error and unpick myths. Instead we endure petty distraction

  • Thousands gather at 2024 Invasion Day rallies across Australia – video

    Footage shows signs with 'stop deaths in custody', treaty slogans, Indigenous flags, 'Free Palestine' messages and Palestinian flags
  • The Muggera dancers perform during the WugulOra morning ceremony at Barangaroo Reserve on Friday

    The absurd 26 January debate overlooks that many on both sides want the same thing: a day of unity

    Dean Parkin
    The contrast between the depth of the Indigenous recognition movement and attempts to ignite culture wars could not be starker
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