Indigenous Australians

There are doubts that a controversial plan to construct an Aboriginal art gallery will go ahead after the Northern Territory government revealed its intention to almost halve the building's size.

For the first time, an Australian government has sat opposite a collective of Aboriginal communities in a bid to negotiate a treaty, in recognition of their sovereign rights over land colonised without their consent.

An Indigenous ranger group that rescued four asylum seekers on a remote island off the Northern Territory coast last week is calling for the federal government to guarantee their safety.

One of Australia's top Aboriginal legal services, NAAJA, has publicly apologised for the unlawful sacking of former chief executive officer Priscilla Atkins.

South Australia's Attorney-General and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has spoken to the state's Police Commissioner, following "confronting" footage taken during an arrest near Port Augusta at the weekend.

Footage of a man being shoved into a wall by a police officer before being dragged through a front yard has been shared on social media, with SA Police confirming a formal complaint has been made about the incident. 

Despite an aborted manslaughter prosecution last year, the coroner found the mistakes that led to the drowning represented "a systemic issue, rather than a failing of any one person".

An island riddled with caves in the western Torres Strait provided sanctuary to pirates, shipwrecked sailors, and a post office.

The Garbutt Magpies in Townsville has switched to serving only water alongside healthy food at its Friday night activities for local children, measuring the effects for a type 2 diabetes prevention study.

The court heard the 17-year-old had a history of severe mental health problems, including psychosis, with her friends and staff at her care home recalling her saying she was “hearing voices” on the night she took her own life.

An Indigenous leader in Western Australia claims at-risk children were left "traumatised" after police arrested three teenage boys while they were attending a program designed to keep them out of trouble.

With authentic one-liners like "shut ya hole" and plenty of other relatable moments in the Australian Outback, the new Netflix series Territory has generated over 15 million views.

More than a year after one of Australia's more controversial referendums, "where to from here?" is a question many continue to ask. But there are hopes truth-telling will help to heal deep wounds in Western Australia.

Four elected members and a senior staff member have resigned months after South Australia's inaugural First Nations Voice to Parliament elections were held, with one outgoing leader describing the model as "unsustainable".

More than 400 Indigenous rangers attend a conference at Uluru to share important cultural and land management knowledge, focusing on themes of fire management, protecting native animals and plants, and cross culture collaboration.

Advocates call for urgent action to implement a commissioner for young people in New South Wales, with First Nations children 12 times more likely to be in out-of-home care.

Jamie Oliver has become embroiled in controversy after criticism his new book stereotypes Indigenous Australians. Here's where it all went wrong.

It has been almost one month since Port Augusta became a Declared Public Precinct, but Uncle Charles Jackson OAM says the move simply shifts the issues "out of sight".

Four foreign nationals who arrived on remote NT coastline have had an extraordinary conversation with some of their rescuers.

The Northern Land Council says the four men landed on Australia's northern coastline on Monday.