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The Indigenous leader said the former PM was right about the Voice being “a mistake from the start” and that a legislated body should have been established before a referendum.

We need properly funded, community-controlled services like Djirra to combat domestic violence against Indigenous women and children.

Unfortunately the High Court didn't share that view when it handed down its Mabo land-rights decision, in the process ignoring precedent and history. The matters decided should have been contested by the Commonwealth with the focus of that debate on the right to take from the land of another person part of the natural produce grown on that land

This week's arts sector appointments include Geelong Arts Centre farewells CEO, new Director at the National Museum of Australia, and more.

Anthony Albanese and the Labor government have been warned against trying to impose a divisive body to oversee truth telling after the failure of the Voice referendum.

Truth-telling is at the heart of a new project re-examining an expedition in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. This research aims to address the absence of Aboriginal voices in this history.

The thorn in Anthony Albanese s side - Greens MP Max Chandler Mather - took just one week to pick a fight with the PM upon returning to Parliament this year.

Anthony Albanese has signalled for the first time that the government is still planning to pursue two key requests in the Uluru Statement from the Heart following the defeat of the Voice.

Delivering the Closing the Gap annual report, the prime minister has announced a national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children among other measures.

A national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children will be established by the Albanese government, an initiative long sought by indigenous advocates, reports MICHELLE GRATTAN.