Indigenous Policy
-
Remote work-for-the-dole participants hit with 55,000 fines in three months
Posted | Updated
The Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-development, rural, nt, australia
-
Michael Mansell addresses Electoral Redistribution Tribunal image
image
Posted
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy
-
Calls for direct Aboriginal representation in Tasmanian Parliament
Posted | Updated
Tasmania's Aboriginal Centre proposes having Aboriginal seats in the state's Parliament, saying Indigenous people are "locked out" of elections.
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, hobart-7000, tas
-
Universities aiming to attract more Indigenous students (photos)
Posted
Australian universities are setting new targets in a bid to attract thousands more Indigenous students to campuses across the country in the first national agreement of its kind.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, federal-government, government-and-politics, university-and-further-education, community-and-society, australia
-
SA appoints commissioner to lead Indigenous treaty process
Posted | Updated
South Australia names senior Aboriginal community leader Roger Thomas as the state's treaty commissioner, to draft a proposed framework after negotiating with Indigenous communities.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
-
Tasmania on track to get Aboriginal reconciliation council, but not all are happy
Posted
The push for Tasmania's own Aboriginal reconciliation council is welcomed as a step towards "black and white coming together", but not all see the move as necessary.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-culture, government-and-politics, tas
-
Teen driven to improve educational outcomes of Indigenous students
Posted
For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, who is about to start a teaching degree, the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, education, university-of-south-australia-5000, adelaide-5000, sa
-
'The Block' set to house 500 uni students under new plan
Posted
More than 500 university students would move into a 16-storey tower at Redfern's The Block under new plans lodged by the Aboriginal Housing Company.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, redfern-2016
-
Landmark native title compensation matter 'being watched as test case'
Posted | Updated
The NT Government says the matter of compensation for native title holders in Timber Creek is a test case for the nation, with Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia facing the possibility of similar claims.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, native-title, courts-and-trials, timber-creek-0852
-
Indigenous council calls for Adam Bandt not to use Native Title Act in Adani debate
Posted | Updated
Greens MP Adam Bandt is criticised for saying changes to the Native Title Act were rushed through Parliament to benefit the Adani coal mine in Queensland.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, perth-6000
-
Former Retta Dixon residents settle landmark payout for alleged abuse
Posted | Updated
The largest class action in the Northern Territory's history is settled in favour of 71 former residents of the Retta Dixon Home, who alleged years of abuse by staff, in what is the first compensation win as a result of evidence heard by the royal commission into child abuse.
Topics: child-abuse, child-care, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, youth, royal-commissions, darwin-0800
-
Indigenous university graduates provide hope
Posted | Updated
Amongst the litany of miserable statistics in this year's Closing the Gap report, there is a standout exception: 30,000 Indigenous university graduates who have erased their employment gap. These are the success stories of the quiet revolution, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, federal-government, government-and-politics, community-and-society, australia
-
Linda Burney responds to Close the Gap findings Video
Video
Posted
Labor's Linda Burney responds to this year's Closing the Gap report, which shows slow progress to improve the health and wealth of Indigenous Australians, February 14, 2017.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, federal-government, australia
-
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing the Gap address Video
Video
Posted
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said despite having successive state and Commonwealth governments committed to closing the gaps faced by First Australians, there was much more work to do.
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, turnbull-malcolm, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia
-
'Not far enough': Turnbull addresses Closing the Gap findings
Posted | Updated
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tables the Close the Gap report which again shows slow progress to improve the health and wealth of Indigenous Australians.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, turnbull-malcolm, australia
-
Bill Shorten image
image
Posted
Topics: bill-shorten, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, australia
-
Malcolm Turnbull speaking about Close the Gap report image
image
Posted
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, australia
-
Australia is failing to close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage
Posted | Updated
Australia has promised to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. But we are failing to meet six of seven key goals.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
-
What is the Redfern Statement?
Posted
Indigenous Australians will today deliver their blueprint for change to the nation's political leaders. It's called the Redfern Statement, and this is what it's calling for.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, indigenous-protocols, australia
-
Closing the Gap report to show positive signs in Indigenous health
Posted | Updated
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is applauding progress in health and education ahead of the release of the latest report card into Indigenous disadvantage.
Topics: indigenous-policy, health-policy, education, australia
-
Abbott criticises PM for not spending time with Indigenous Australians
Posted | Updated
Former prime minister Tony Abbott says it is disappointing Malcolm Turnbull has not spent a week each year in a remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait community.
Topics: abbott-tony, turnbull-malcolm, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
-
New projects aim to support SA Stolen Generations
Posted
Building places of healing and setting up new community programs could be the next wave of support for the Stolen Generations in South Australia, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher says.
Topics: stolen-generations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, adelaide-5000, sa
-
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration
Posted | Updated
The Greens urge the Federal Government to establish targets for driving down the number of Indigenous Australians in jail.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, australia
-
Black market abalone drives wedge between commercial and cultural fishermen
Posted
An abalone bust on the NSW far south coast brings to the surface tensions between cultural and commercial abalone divers.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, illegal-fishing, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture
-
Indigenous fishers in Moruya NSW image
image
Posted
Topics: illegal-fishing, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture
Connect with ABC News
Got a news tip?
If you have inside knowledge of a topic in the news, contact the ABC.
