MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Damage caused to an Aboriginal rock shelter by mining giant Rio Tinto in August underscores the need for better heritage protection laws and a greater say for Indigenous groups ...

We welcome the recently announced Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. At the same time, the enquiry must consider certain issues in its approach ...

World Socialist Web Site journalists Susan Allan and Richard Phillips and freelance photographer John Hulme recently visited central Australia to report on the social and political impact of the ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices will be 'front and centre' on public health issues that impact them with the establishment of a voice to a major peak body. The Public Health Association ...

In the context of the Labor government’s October 14 referendum on the proposed Aboriginal “Voice” to parliament, the experience of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) from ...

Australia's largest union body has reignited the country's fiercest culture war - backing a Voice model and calling for the date of Australia Day to be changed.

The referendum will decide whether to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution for the first time - Copyright AFP DAVID GRAY The referendum will decide ...

More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that transcribe speech into written words. These technologies enable the devices ...

Two female Aboriginal lawmakers with very different political views are campaigning against the proposal to create an advisory body on Indigenous issues. By Natasha Frost Reporting from Hobart, ...