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Indigenous investigations

Indigenous affairs reporting supported by the Balnaves Foundation

  • An aerial view of the old Kinchela Boys Home outside Kempsey, NSW, Australia

    NSW boys home grounds to be explored after possible ‘clandestine’ human burial sites revealed

    Government move to engage archaeological specialists comes after ‘suspicious’ locations identified at Kinchela Aboriginal institution
  • Youpla logo

    About a third of $96m ACBF-Youpla victim support scheme to be spent on administration

    National Indigenous Australians Agency and Services Australia will receive about $30m to run program for Aboriginal victims of predatory funeral fund
  • Linda Burney speaking in parliament

    Labor to provide $97m for victims of predatory insurance provider ACBF-Youpla

    The support program will run for two years and aim to bring ‘peace of mind’ to thousands of Indigenous Australians
  • The NSW government is funding investigations into possible clandestine burials at the Stolen Generations institutions the Kinchela boys’ home, Cootamundra girls’ home and Bomaderry infants’ home

    NSW government funds investigations into possible clandestine burials at three Stolen Generations sites

    Search widens beyond Kinchela boys’ home to include Cootamundra girls’ home and Bomaderry infants’ home
  • An Aboriginal flag is seen next to the Australian flag against a blue sky

    What is the Indigenous voice to parliament, how would it work, and what happens next?

    Here’s what we know so far about how the Albanese government hopes to enshrine an Indigenous voice in the constitution via a referendum
  • Kath Travis

    A Melbourne office held vital records of Aboriginal children’s homes. How did they go missing?

    When the United Aborigines Mission wound up in 2020, boxes of records disappeared – leaving stolen generations survivors with agonising questions
  • From left, James Michael 'Widdy' Welsh #36, Uncle Richard "Bear" Campbell #28, Uncle Roger "Pigeon" Jarrett #12, Uncle Allan Roosevelt "Boomp" Cooper # 4, and Uncle Robert "Bullfrog" Young #24 at Kinchela Boys Home, Kinchela, NSW, Australia

    The secret graves of the Stolen Generations – Full Story podcast

    Lorena Allam and Sarah Collard on why survivors of a notorious institution are calling for an urgent investigation into possible clandestine graves
  • Child residents of Carrolup Native Settlement, Western Australia, Australia, circa 1916, contrasted with Carrolup/Marribank Aboriginal Mission in Western Australia, Australia.

    Hundreds of Aboriginal children likely buried in unmarked graves at three WA missions

  • Howard Riley stands in front of a dilapidated 1940s Chevrolet ambulance, which would have transported sick or dead people at Moore River mission in Western Australia

    ‘Those kids belong to somebody’: elders demand truth about unmarked Aboriginal graves

  • Kinchela Voices

    Beaten, abused, bullied, starved: stories of survival of Kinchela Aboriginal boys’ home

  • The minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney

    Linda Burney calls for investigation into possible secret burial sites at Stolen Generations institution

  • Roger 'Pigeon' Jarrett and Richard 'Bear' Campbell spent their formative years in one of the most violent and abusive institutions of the Stolen Generations era

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    'I became number 12': survivors of Kinchela boys' home share their stories – video

  • Ground-penetrating radar technology is a noninvasive means of detecting potential human remains. At least nine ‘suspicious’ sites of possible graves have been identified at the former government-run Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home using GDR.

    Ground-penetrating radar: how the discovery of ‘clandestine’ anomalies could reveal buried truths

  • Who are the Stolen Generations and what has happened to them?

  • ‘Taken to hell’: even today survivors of Kinchela boys’ home are known by their numbers

  • Revealed: multiple sites of possible secret graves discovered at Stolen Generations institution for children

  • Reginald Saunders

    ‘For kin, family and country’: the Indigenous servicemen finally being recognised

    More of Australia’s First Nations service personnel are being uncovered, with some having hidden their heritage due to stigma
  • ‘It’s always been about politics for the Liberals and Nationals. That’s why they want a Canberra debate,’ Linda Burney says.

    Linda Burney rules out debate on voice referendum with Jacinta Nampinjinpa Price

    ‘This is about Australians not politicians,’ Indigenous Australians minister says, as opposition calls voice proposal a ‘dog’s breakfast’
  • Composite of Warren Mundine, Lakemba Mosque and the Hindu temple in Parramatta

    Indigenous voice no campaign targets religious voters who opposed marriage equality

    The no campaign plans to tap into the ‘unheard majority’ in Sydney, believing there is a bloc of socially conservative religious voters ripe for its messages
  • Before and after composite showing part of the Juukan Gorge site that was destroyed by Rio Tinto in May 2020.

    New Aboriginal cultural heritage laws in WA hope to take state from ‘wild west’ to a better way

    Some say the overhaul of laws is a little ‘bittersweet’ and does not go far enough, but others claim it will ‘hold businesses to ransom’
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