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The family members of First Nations people who have died in custody say they are disappointed the government rejected a call in the senate to meet with them on the anniversary of the Royal Commission into Indigenous Deaths in Custody handing down its findings in 1991. Latoya Rules brother, Wayne Fella Morrison died in 2016 just days after an altercation with corrections staff at an Adelaide prison left him brain dead. Deaths in custody advocate Latoya Rule with brother Wayne Fella Morrison who ...

Labor and Greens senators put forward a motion on Tuesday urging the Prime Minister to meet with the families of people who have died in custody.

Reports will be provided annually after that, Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt said on Friday. Mr Rudd on Friday called the change "a brazen effort to wriggle out of accountability" in a tweet. "All Australians deserve to know on Monday how their government is succeeding or failing in terms of meeting the #ClosingTheGap targets," he wrote. All Australians deserve to know on Monday how their government is succeeding or failing in terms of meeting the #ClosingTheGap targets — just we h...

Parliament's first sitting week of the year will go ahead as scheduled with WA federal politicians needing to apply for an exemption from the ACT's quarantine restrictions.

WA MP King comes out on top in Albanese frontbench reshuffle We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Federal Labor MP Madeleine King was the biggest West Australian winner out of Anthony Albanese’s shadow cabinet reshuffle. The Brand representative picked up the resources portfolio on Thursday to go alongside her responsibility as the opposition spokeswoman for trade. Opposition resources spokeswoman Madel...

A warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; this article contains references to people who have died. I love walking through cemeteries. I love to read the gravestones. They are like the first and last page of a novel whose contents I will never know. Here lies many from my community; they were born, lived, and then lost. They were loved. This evening I am walking with my 11-year-old daughter and my husband through Mullumbimby’s cemetery. It is a quiet and beautiful place. I fe...

The prime minister visits Cobargo  As bushfires tore across Australia’s east coast - the prime minister visited the bushfire-ravaged town of Cobargo, in southeast NSW, on 2 January. His visit took place around a fortnight after he cut short a controversial family holiday to Hawaii in late December - a trip that he would later apologise for. Cobargo residents who felt neglected by the federal government met Mr Morrison with cries of anger and heckles of frustration.  The scenes of a woman ...

Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) Traditional Owners have welcomed an interim report from the parliamentary inquiry into the destruction of ancient caves at Juukan Gorge. The inquiry has been investigating the circumstances that led to Rio Tinto detonating the 46,000-year-old rock shelters in May. The committees report called for Rio Tinto to negotiate compensation with PKKP people, to undertake a restoration process at the site, and to uphold a permanent moratorium on mining in the area....

>> good morning. thanks for joining us. >> john collins is saying the forecast has stopped raining. >> right but a little sprinkle activity around here. the heaviest rains have moved off into new jersey and up to new york state. look at our h.d. doppler radar and you can see where the storm is headed. away from us. again, we are still seeing a few sprinkles and showers, mostly from the city east. low clouds everywhere but it is beginning to clear out in western maryland. that is a sign...