Bridget Brennan

NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro was not in attendance at the 25th Garma festival after pushing tough-on-crime rhetoric as the prime minister claims "the cheap politics of division" would not lead to solutions.

The peak body for Indigenous legal services says the prime minister is "missing in action" and should convene a national cabinet meeting over rising Aboriginal incarceration rates and deaths in custody.

Aboriginal people are grieving another round of sorry business in a week that is supposed to be a time for all Australians to consider their part in the enormous schisms between black and white communities. 

Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin says she does not know if she could work with Melbourne Storm again after the NRL club cancelled her Welcome to Country ceremony on Anzac Day.

The heckling at Melbourne’s Anzac Day service mirrors the long, quiet and painful exclusion of Black diggers from the national conversation.

Australia has a painful past. For the first time, the country has been grappling with recording the stories of that history in a truth-telling commission.

The Northern Territory's 'unrelenting horror' of violence against women is our national shame

Families of missing and murdered women had already told their traumas to coroners, magistrates, journalists and police officers. Was a procedural Senate inquiry — bound by time and budget constraints — ever going to be any different?

Victoria's first-of-its-kind treaty body has launched an official negotiations database, marking the state's first step on its nation-leading historic journey towards treaty.

Since it was established in 2022, Indigenous crisis line 13YARN has fielded 50,000 calls for help from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country.