INDIGENOUS

EXCLUSIVE Aboriginal 'recidivists' to be managed

Kevin Andrews with Katrina Douglas and her children

PATRICIA KARVELAS INDIGENOUS people in Cape York who refuse to address drug, alcohol and other problems will have 90 per cent of welfare payments managed.

EXCLUSIVE Parents key to truancy 'army'

Patricia Karvelas CAPE York leader Noel Pearson has backed a plan to send 400 truancy officers into 40 communities to lift school attendance rates.

Truancy officers go bush

Patricia Karvelas ABOUT 400 truancy officers will try to dramatically lift the number of Aboriginal children consistently turning up to school.

Land council aware of risks in resort buy

JOE KELLY A REPORT has found the Indigenous Land Corporation's acquisition of the Ayers Rock Resort was a high-risk undertaking.

First Peoples body vows to continue

Patricia Karvelas THE nation's peak Aboriginal body has promised its members and supporters that it will continue..

EXCLUSIVE Congress told funding will go

Patricia Karvelas THE peak Aboriginal body has been told it must prepare to lose its federal funding from next July.

Pressure for Uluru resort inquiry

Lisa Allen THE Indigenous Land Corporation yesterday stepped up calls for a parliamentary inquiry into its purchase of Ayers Rock Resort.

Coalition on target for $43m saving

PATRICIA KARVELAS THE Abbott government will achieve its promise of cuts to Aboriginal legal services by cutting legal aid to non-indigenous people,.

First Peoples in pitch for funding

PATRICIA KARVELAS THE peak body representing indigenous Australians has made a last-ditch attempt to keep its funding.

$30m to tackle outback truancy

PATRICIA KARVELAS FORTY remote Aboriginal communities will receive funding worth almost $30 million to help reduce high rates of school truancy.

Business chance holds key to freedom

RICK MORTON GRAPHIC designer Marcus Lee is a firm believer in the idea that economic choice is the surest way to freedom.

Remote indigenous watchdog scrapped

THE Abbott government has axed a watchdog that monitors service delivery in remote indigenous communities.

EXCLUSIVE NT's grog policies failing

AMOS AIKMAN A SIX-YEAR decline in alcohol consumption in the Northern Territory has been reversed, prompting calls for Tony Abbott to intervene.

EXCLUSIVE Libs scale back cuts to legal aid

PATRICIA KARVELAS THE Abbott government will strip funding from the peak Aboriginal legal aid organisation and policy positions in its state affiliates.

Call for Aboriginal welfare overhaul

Patricia Karvelas WELFARE rules should be tougher to get Aborigines into jobs, according to one of the Northern Territory's dominant jobs providers.

EXCLUSIVE Closing the gap: companies step up

RICK MORTON AUSTRALIA has reached a "tipping point" as the top-tier business community records dramatic growth in the way it engages Aborigines.

EXCLUSIVE Aborigines 'stunned' by Uluru battle

AMOS AIKMAN, NORTHERN CORRESPONDENT INDIGENOUS people living in the shadow of Uluru have warned against government attempts to gain control of Uluru National Park.

Lift in indigenous literacy

Justine Ferrari READING skills among indigenous primary school students jumped this year.

EXCLUSIVE Billionaires feared on native title

Sarah Elks THE Aboriginal community of Yarrabah is on a stretch of pristine tropical beach that is prime real estate in anyone's books.

EXCLUSIVE Former ILC head defends resort deal

Patricia Karvelas THE former chair of the Indigenous Land Corporation has defended herself and the decision to buy the Ayers Rock Resort.

Scholarships open doors to world

NICOLAS PERPITCH AVEA Sabatino won an indigenous scholarship to a Sydney private school and plans to study mining engineering.

EXCLUSIVE Accounts giant in check on powers

Patricia Karvelas ERNST & Young has been charged with examining whether the government has "appropriate powers" and control over the nation's largest Aboriginal economic development bodies.

Closing the Gap 'missing' from council

PATRICIA KARVELAS LABOR says the missing piece in the terms of reference for Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council is any reference to Closing the Gap targets.

PM asks council for 'real changes'

PATRICIA KARVELAS and LIAM QUINN TONY Abbott has told his new 12-member indigenous council he wants to see "real changes" in the indigenous community within three years.

EXCLUSIVE Peris, Wyatt their people's first

PATRICIA KARVELAS FOR the first time in the nation's history, two Aborigines will head a parliamentary committee.

Indigenous council's basic approach

PATRICIA KARVELAS TONY Abbott has released the terms of reference for his indigenous council, with an emphasis on practical advice and improving lives.

EXCLUSIVE Remote welfare 'deters success'

PATRICIA KARVELAS FUNDING for job and training agencies servicing unemployed Aborigines should be tied to success rates, says businessman Andrew Forrest.

Our 'first indigenous PM'

Lauren Wilson SIXTEEN-year-old Danae Haynes stood in Parliament House yesterday and spoke as "Australia's first Indigenous prime minister".

EXCLUSIVE Union boss accuses Rio of betrayal

The Alcan Gove Alumina refinery in the Northern Territory

AMOS AIKMAN, Northern correspondent THE head of Australia's most powerful union has accused Rio Tinto of a "shameful betrayal" of Aborigines over the planned alumina refinery closure.