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January 2025

  • Buwatpuy Michael Gumana looks at one of four historic Yirrkala bark petitions at the home of Joan McKie in Derby, Western Australia

    One Heart, One Mind: how one phone call led to a key part of Aboriginal history coming to the big screen

    The Yolngu people have been unwavering in their fight for their country and their culture. The Yirrkala bark petitions tell that story
  • First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria co-chairs Ngarra Murray (right) and Rueben Berg.

    Permanent Indigenous voice on the table as Victoria treaty negotiations ramp up

    The ‘interaction’ between parliament and a First Peoples representative body is on agenda, both parties say
  • Warren Mundine speaks at the No Campaign reception in Brisbane

    Liberal faction fears Warren Mundine will sink in north Sydney seat that returned pro-voice vote

    Anti-voice campaigner will face off with Gisele Kapterian for preselection, counting Tony Abbott and John Anderson among his supporters

December 2024

  • Illustration for the 'How to' series

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    Thomas Mayo on how to hold on to hope – Full Story podcast

  • The Johnny Mullagh Medal was won by Gulidjan man Scott Boland in 2021 as player of the Boxing Day Test.

    His cricket was fierce but 156 summers later, has Australia done justice to Johnny Mullagh?

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    The best of: Fiona Katauskas cartoons 2024

  • ‘We need only listen to the voices of Indigenous people recorded in the Uluru Dialogues to understand the importance of truth-telling for First Nations people.’

    The path to truth-telling in Australia is thorny and long. But there is some ground for hope

    Mark McKenna
  • Amid all the crisis talks and prevention efforts, 2024 has been a horror year for violence against women

    Kristine Ziwica
  • Drowning of Indigenous Queensland teenager a ‘tragic consequence’ of police chase, coroner finds

  • ‘Loss of faith in police’: Indigenous victims of crime fear not being believed, Victorian study finds

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    The ‘senseless, shocking and preventable’ deaths at the centre of a landmark domestic violence inquiry – Full Story podcast

  • Australia news live
    RBA governor says board ‘did not consider’ cutting cash rate – as it happened

  • Indigenous affairs minister says Dutton ‘unfit to be prime minister’ after he pledges not to display First Nations flags

  • ‘We need to stand up’: NT Indigenous leaders are determined to bring down domestic violence rates

  • Six years to create, two days to dismantle. What happens now Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry has been scrapped?

  • Investigation into contractor that faked voice referendum data extended to two federal election campaigns

  • Indigenous Australians recover human remains taken by Germany 120 years ago

  • Public servant afraid to call out alleged racism in WA detention centre, Cleveland Dodd inquest hears

  • Australian Music prize: 80-year-old Kankawa Nagarra wins over Nick Cave and Amyl and the Sniffers

  • More than 90% of people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs criminalised in NSW despite diversion reforms

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