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Latest news and comment on Indigenous Australians

April 2025

  • The three candidates with scenes from the electorate

    Israel-Gaza war looms large over Labor’s hold on Melbourne seats of Macnamara and Wills

  • Peter Dutton on stage with a sign saying 'Let's get Australia back on track'

    Ten things we learned from Peter Dutton’s speech at the Liberal party campaign launch

  • Dhuruputjpi River

    One of Australia’s oldest cold cases: why after 90 years a family is still waiting for justice

    Tom Murray
  • A colourful graphic, cartoon-style painting showing a  busy urban landscape. At the centre in the foreground is a abstracted figure wearing a priest's collar, whose head doubles as a jail cell, with an Aboriginal man inside looking out

    ‘When I came out of prison, I couldn’t wait to create’: leading artists and inmates team up to break the prison cycle

  • Indigenous Australian shell dolls let out for children’s play at UK museum

  • Cassius Turvey: accused blamed innocent man and friend for teen’s murder, court hears

  • The Kamay spears come home to Dharawal land more than two centuries after James Cook took them

  • Last chance
    Bogong moths and the traditional owners scaling mountains to track them – video

  • ‘Impending doom’: 20 young Australian voters tell us what’s important to them this election

  • Last chance
    Massive swarms of bogong moths once resembled rain clouds – then their numbers crashed to earth

  • Stella prize 2025: shortlist entirely women of colour for the first time in award’s history

  • Indigenous affairs reporting
    ‘The stories were always there, they kept us strong’: surviving one of the darkest periods of Queensland’s colonial past

  • Crushed by rabbits, bolting horses and childhood illness: the stories buried in outback NSW cemeteries

  • Man accused of Cassius Turvey murder ‘is lying through his teeth’, court told

  • Mark Haines coronial inquiry: police would have ‘turned that train over’ if the teen had been non-Indigenous, uncle says

  • Australia’s major parties have lost ‘courage’ on Indigenous affairs, Mick Gooda says

  • Mark Haines coronial inquiry: police initially misidentified teenager’s body

March 2025

  • Close up of hands holding a photograph of Mark Haines

    Indigenous affairs reporting
    Mark Haines coronial inquiry: best friend tells court he has ‘no idea’ what caused teenager’s death

    Glenn Mannion’s ex-girlfriend alleges he drunkenly told her he was involved in Haines’ death but Mannion says he ‘had no such conversation’
  • Don Craigie, the uncle of Mark Haines, near a photo shrine to his nephew.

    Indigenous affairs reporting
    Mark Haines coronial inquiry: an uncle’s quest for the truth in rural NSW could finally be at its end

    In 1988, 17-year-old Mark Haines was found dead on the railway tracks outside Tamworth. Decades on, a reopened investigation may offer answers – and Don Craigie is determined to bear witness
  • Joe Longo

    Super fund took more than 500 days to approve death benefit for grieving widow, Asic says

    Landmark report makes 34 recommendations to overhaul the superannuation sector, citing delays, poor customer service and ineffective procedures
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