Indigenous Culture

Bridging the gap between scientific monitoring and cultural knowledge, traditional owners say persistent pools along the Gascoyne River are changing with dire consequences.

Halls Creek's aged care home serves a vast area with many Indigenous cultural groups, and now a local Aboriginal health service hopes to boost the facility that's struggled in recent years with compliance breaches.

One photojournalist follows the lives of Warumungu traditional owners in Jurnkkurakurr (Tennant Creek) as they detail their ambitious way out of a centuries-long housing crisis.

The Ord Valley Muster showcases the East Kimberley's Indigenous culture, pastoral heritage and spectacular landscape, but a ticket sale dive at last month's event has put the festival on shaky financial ground.

A prominent historian is reviving questions about the final resting place of up to 1,000 South Sea Islander workers, fearing some remains could be located where a ward is set to be built at Mackay Base Hospital.

Yothu Yindi leader Witiyana Marika says he will "keep on dancing" for a treaty as thousands gather at weekend to celebrate Indigenous culture at Barunga Festival.  

Sky News, The Australian and the Daily Telegraph used a photo of dancers in the Miriki Performing Arts group during a children's festival for a story on sexual abuse of Indigenous children last year.

Indigenous land managers are hoping to repatriate ecologically and culturally significant species to lungtalanana, or Clarke Island, but feral cat predation and a lack of funding are standing in their way.  

The state's map is littered with dozens of racist terms steeped in a traumatic history. While authorities have made it easier to change these names, advocates say the wheels of government must turn faster.

Australia's organ donation and transplantation rates are among the lowest in the developed world, and only 36 per cent of eligible adults are on the register. Leslie Schultz thinks changes are needed to turn that around. 

The small country town of Mullewa is reeling from a spike in crime, but locals say the solutions need to go further than more policing.

With a few contracts here and there but mainly run out of his own pocket, station man Damien Kunoth believes in tough love when teaching young Indigenous men how to work on the land in his All Rounder program.

Increasing numbers of visitors to Far North Queensland are learning about traditional culture on country. The Indigenous guides showing them around say it goes to the meaning of reconciliation.

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, discusses Reconciliation Week following the defeat of the Voice referendum.

Evelyn Billy is working to expose more people to Torres Strait food.

Early education can have a huge impact on a child's path in life, but some kids are missing out. These experts say that needs to change, and they know how to do it.

Indigenous leaders gather in Canberra to speak to parliamentarians about recognition of their traditional fishing rights.

After years of legal battles in their own countries, First Nations activists from around the world are working together to shine a global spotlight on the systemic failure to protect Indigenous fishing rights worldwide.

A new university program brings in Indigenous business owners to engage with students — and it's having positive results for those involved.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says the Cook government's botched rollout and reversal of changes to the state's heritage laws could constitute a breach of international convention.

Tributes are flowing from friends and the art world for a trailblazing contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist. 

After winning $215,000, Ali Cobby Eckermann took time off from writing. Now her new book She Is the Earth has won the top prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Despite a government spotlight on juvenile crime in WA's Kimberley region, youth crime prevention programs like Together We Ride are struggling to continue due to a lack of steady funding. 

The Gomeroi people are traditional owners of land that overlaps Queensland and New South Wales.

The Atyenhenge Atherre Aboriginal Corporation's alternative engagement program rewards students who go to and behave well at school by letting them participate in learning activities outside of the classroom.