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An administrative bungle means the Northern Territory will not appoint a permanent Treaty Commissioner to replace Mick Dodson before the Commission hands down its final report next year.

David Gulpilil: Profound legacy of a trailblazing Aboriginal actor

An Australian woman has described her time in one of the country's mandatory supervised quarantine facilities, often reported ...

The Northern Territory has recorded its first COVID-related death since the beginning of the pandemic.

The actor was often described as a bridge between Indigenous Australia and the outside world who never fit comfortably in either place

Two Aboriginal residents of  Binjari and Rockhole, on the outskirts of Katherine,  have posted on social media that ...

Aim: In the crowded field of leadership research, Indigenous leadership remains under-researched. This article explores the Leadership Model of an Aboriginal Community Controlled Primary Health Care Organisation providing services to the Yolngu people of remote northern Australia: the Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation (Miwatj). Background: The limited research which does exist on Indigenous leadership points to unique challenges for Indigenous leaders. These challenges relate to fostering sel...

Social work content podcasting has increased exponentially in recent years, playing a new role in the emerging social work education debate surrounding online and remote delivery of social work content. Although podcasting itself is not now a new digital innovation, how and why social work educators and academics would embrace the use of podcasting is still debated and is often positioned as inferior to face-to-face classroom teaching. In the Australian context this is particularly important whe...

Across the Pacific Ocean, in Canada or ‘Turtle Island’ as it is also known by many of its Indigenous inhabitants, a horror has been unfolding. It started at a the former residential school in Kamloops, British Colombia where, via the use of ground penetrating radar technology, the remains of at least 215 Native Canadian children were found buried in mass unmarked gravesites. This school ran for 85 years, was part of compulsory government programs to forcibly assimilate these children, and wa...

Abstract This paper reports one part of a broader Aboriginal Voices Project that has been undertaken by 13 Australian researchers bringing together 10 systematic reviews on Aboriginal School Education. The extent of collaboration and engagement between school and community leaders is important to influence joint decision-making and required to attain lasting change. This review investigates how leadership in both the school and community can contribute to effecting a sustained change in Aborigi...