First Nations

Peter Dutton will have the opportunity to ask for more details of the Voice to parliament when he meets with the group of Indigenous representatives working on the referendum.A spokesman for the Opposition Leader said he had met with…

The federal government does not have a willing partner to find a way to introduce fire codes on First Nation reserves, a newly released document shows. The senior director for the Indigenous Fire Marshal Service, however, says there…

The most frustrating thing about the Voice is that it is an idea that sells itself – frustrating because at this rate it’s going to have to.The good news is there is one thing, a single sentence, that could make the case for the Voice…

Many Métis residential school survivors continue to go unacknowledged — and that’s going to have to change if the government wants to reconcile with Indigenous people, a Métis leader says. Speaking in an interview with The West…

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has challenged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to provide further detail on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, saying there were many Australians who could support the referendum if they had more…

The head of the First Nations Chiefs of Police Association says he hopes a federal bill in the works that aims to make Indigenous policing an essential service will come with adequate funding to ensure those forces can attract enough…

From legislative chambers to classrooms, and on the radio and TV, Indigenous languages are spoken and heard every day across the North thanks to dedicated elders, teachers, translators and broadcasters. Jeela Palluq-Cloutier, who has…

More Australian companies have green lit policies which mean employees can choose to work on Australia Day public holiday.Staff at Telstra and Woodside Energy can now choose whether to take January 26 as a public holiday, or choose to work…

The former government shouldn’t have resisted climate change action so strongly, Liberal senator Simon Birmingham has conceded. The opposition’s foreign affairs spokesman has returned from a week-long bipartisan trip with Foreign Affairs…

Treaty 6 chiefs say they have concluded that Premier Danielle Smith neither respects nor understands treaty rights and Indigenous history after hearing comments she made in the Alberta legislature Tuesday. Smith compared the treatment…