More than 35 years after Aboriginal teenager Mark Haines was found dead on train tracks in rural New South Wales (NSW), police are offering $1 million (US$670,000) for information to catch his killers. The reward and another coronial inquest could bring answers for his grieving family. Mark was 17 when he died near Tamworth on…

The federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has launched his strongest attack yet against changing Australia’s Constitution to entrench Indigenous interests. Dutton said the Indigenous Voice to Parliament would take Australia “backwards not forwards” and called it “regressive, not progressive.” “It should be very clear to Australians by now that the prime minister is dividing our…

Hundreds of protesters have converged on Brisbane’s District and Supreme Court building days after police fatally shot an Aboriginal man in far north Queensland. The court building was briefly placed into lockdown after about 200 people marched through the Brisbane CBD chanting “Justice for Aubrey”. Aubrey Donahue, 27, died after being shot four times by…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed the exact wording that Australians will vote on in the upcoming referendum on whether to change the country’s Constitution. Voters will be asked: “A proposed law to alter the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice. Do you approve…

Aboriginal groups have blamed an Indigenous advocacy organisation for promoting a “one tribe policy” after it managed to convince the New South Wales government to declare a popular tourist destination a “men’s site” and consider a ban on visitors. The New South Wales government has worked closely with a “Wollumbin Consultative Group” since 2000—according to…

Aboriginal groups have blamed an Indigenous advocacy organisation for promoting a “one tribe policy” after it managed to convince the New South Wales government to declare a popular tourist destination a “men’s site” and consider a ban on visitors. The New South Wales government has worked closely with a “Wollumbin Consultative Group” since 2000—according to…

A shipwrecked yacht on a remote Australian island has become the centre of a dispute between the vessel’s owner and the local Aboriginal Land Council, which claimed the yacht belongs to them. The 40-foot “Huntress” suffered a mishap during its Sydney to Hobart race on Dec. 28, 2022, when it hit an unidentified object which…

Lidia Thorpe, deputy leader of the left-wing Australian Greens party has resigned from her position—but remains a senator—after revelations emerged of a relationship with the ex-leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang, which occurred at the same time she sat on a parliamentary committee investigating the criminal gangs. The joint-parliamentary committee on law enforcement she was…