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  • Celeste Liddle

    New Zealand’s conservative turn sounds chillingly familiar to Indigenous Australians. Here’s why the Māori fight is our fight

    Celeste Liddle
    Every attack on treaty, land rights, language, culture and self-determination for Māori will give Australia’s politicians more justification for their actions, or lack thereof
  • Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy apologises for past injustices committed by the Northern Territory police to Idigenous Territorians at Garma 2024

    Australian Politics
    The next steps after an ‘extraordinary’ apology – Australian politics podcast

    Guardian Australia’s political editor Karen Middleton speaks to Northern Territory police commissioner Michael Murphy ​after he issued an apology to the Indigenous people of his jurisdiction
  • Liberal senator Linda Reynolds

    Australia news live
    Senator gives evidence at defamation trial – as it happened

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  • Anthony Albanese speaking at the Garma festival in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, at the weekend

    What is makarrata and has Albanese broken an election promise?

    The PM’s interpretation of the concept appears to differ from the one Indigenous leaders promote, sparking accusations he is abandoning it in favour of ‘casual conversations’
  • John Lawrence

    NT police commissioner’s apology means nothing without sacking racist officers, top lawyer says

    Former bar association president tells Garma panel ‘there is no due process’ for Aboriginal people in NT courts, and derided Albanese’s pledge for more engagement
  • NT police commissioner, Michael Murphy, says establishing a new relationship between Indigenous Territorians will be challenging but 'any alternative is not acceptable'. Murphy and senior colleagues were invited to a private rapirri smoking ceremony to clear the way for a lasting friendship

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    NT police commissioner apologises for 'injustices' to Indigenous community at Garma 2024 – video

  • The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong

    Australia news live
    Wong warns Australians in Lebanon to ‘leave immediately’ – as it happened

  • Anthony Albanese

    Albanese endorses ‘principle’ of makarrata but stops short of backing truth and justice commission

  • A young Wadeye dancer gets ready to enter the Bungul ceremonial grounds at Garma 2024

    ‘After the Fire’: Gumatj leader Djawa Yunupingu looks to the future – Garma 2024 in pictures

  • Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy

    NT police commissioner apologises to Indigenous community at Garma festival

  • The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, addresses the audience on day two of the Garma festival 2024

    ‘My optimism for a better future still burns’: Anthony Albanese is met with grief and gratitude at annual Garma festival

  • Anthony Albanese at Garma festival

    ‘We have to make a new path,’ Albanese vows, returning to Garma festival after voice defeat

    Prime minister to tell gathering he remains ‘committed to Makarrata’, as Malarndirri McCarthy hits back against Peter Dutton’s rejection of truth telling
  • Alexis Wright.

    Praiseworthy: why Alexis Wright’s ‘staggering’ epic is sweeping prizes – and challenging readers

    The 700+ page novel has been described as a ‘mind-altering experience’ and a massive antidote’ to short attention spans. It’s not an easy read – but it’s not meant to be
  • The Last Stand by Fiona Francois Charcoal drawing

    From Tasmanian cliffs to pig-nosed turtles: $100,000 Hadley’s Art prize – in pictures

    Hadley’s Art prize is an annual acquisitive prize for Australian landscape art that is believed to be the richest in the world. Selected from 35 finalists, Zoe Grey has won for The Shape of Rock
  • Centrelink signage is seen in Brisbane

    Consumer watchdog urges crackdown on businesses using Centrepay to cause financial harm

    It is alleged energy companies deducted money from welfare payments of people, including Indigenous Australians, who were no longer customers
  • Antoinette Braybrook

    ‘Completely outrageous’: Indigenous leaders condemn worsening Closing the Gap data

    Annual report finds only five of the 19 measures monitored are considered to be on track
  • 240801 Closing the Gap thumbnail

    Is there a proven way to help close the gap?

    It helps to think local

July 2024

  • Yvonne Weldon leaning against a sandstone buildingWeldon is a Wiradjuri woman, independent councillor and the first Aboriginal Councillor in the City of Sydney's 180-year history.

    Yvonne Weldon has already made history. Now she’s out to shake up Sydney’s mayoral race

    The council’s first Aboriginal councillor in its 180-year history is driven by a passion to ‘cycle change’ the city
  • The Aboriginal flag next to Australia's coat of arms

    ‘Deeply troubling’ trends found in first Closing the Gap report since voice referendum defeat

    Malarndirri McCarthy suggests bipartisan approach needed for ‘positive change’ as report shows key Indigenous measures sliding backwards
  • Senator Malarndirri McCarthy in front of a red backdrop

    ‘Walk with me’: new Indigenous Australians minister Malarndirri McCarthy wants a new kind of discourse

    As she begins role, McCarthy vows to work collegially with all sides of politics to improve outcomes for First Nations people
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