The ACT Government is in the process of finalising its funding arrangements with the Commonwealth Government for its commitment to a new Closing the Gap framework.
The Commonwealth Government announced its initial $46.5...
The ACT’s youth, health, legal and community sector have criticised the Australian Attorneys-General “lack of leadership,” after the group failed to raise the criminal age of responsibility yesterday.
Canberra-based Indigenous artist and jewellery maker, Krystal Hurst, has once again been named a finalist for NATSIAA, after being first nominated in 2019.
Researchers at ANU have reviewed a range of existing historical evidence to determine the root cause of high smoking rates in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.
Although official NAIDOC Week celebrations have been postponed due to COVID-19, several events will still be held in July to bring the community together.
A panel of Indigenous professors, politicians, authors and activists have spoken of the shared trauma of colonisation, child removal, custodial deaths, and cultural genocide while identifying truth telling as a pathway to peace in an online forum on Monday (22 June).
“I came here as a refugee and we know what a bad day looks like, but whatever racism I have received here is nothing compared to what Indigenous people are copping in their own damn country,” says Sudanese-Australian, Dheiu Mading.
Following Friday 5 June’s Black Lives Matter protest, at least 500 Canberrans will participate in a protest outside Parliament House on 6 June from 3pm.
This year’s Indigenous Marathon Project will be run as a virtual program to “keep encouraging young Indigenous leaders to step up in their community and spread the positive message of healthy living,” according to IMP head coach and graduate, Adrian Dodson-Shaw.
While COVID-19 has already had significant impacts on Australians, new research suggests it is those most vulnerable, including Indigenous communities, that will feel the effects the most.
The Centre for Social Impact (CSI)...
After collecting over 6,000 fingerprints from athletes and dignitaries during the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, a young Aboriginal artist’s painting has gone on display for the first time at the Royal...
