Mining company claims government didn’t follow proper process for Aboriginal heritage protection order

Regis Resources told a federal court hearing the partial protection order, which blocks construction of a planned tailings dam, would make its development unviable Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A mining company developing a goldmine in the central west of New South Wales has told the federal court the … Read more

Troubled youth prison unit should be closed urgently after Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd’s death: coroner

16-year-old’s death was caused by longstanding failures in the justice system, coroner Phil Urquhart finds Warning: This article contains references to an Indigenous Australian who has died Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The coroner investigating the death of Indigenous teenager … Read more

High court overturns NT housing policy which tripled rent in some remote Indigenous communities

Rental changes were introduced in Northern Territory without giving notice to tenants, which the court unanimously ruled was a denial of procedural fairness Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A public housing policy which saw tenants in the Northern Territory charged … Read more

Guardian Australia wins Walkley award for Indigenous affairs for The Descendants series

Christopher Hopkins also named the Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year for work published in Al Jazeera, The Age, and the Guardian Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Guardian Australia has won a Walkley award for excellence in journalism for a series on Australians facing the truth of their family’s … Read more

Australian governments ‘turning their backs’ on soaring Indigenous incarceration, former minister says

Robert Tickner says there are ‘no excuses for the failure to implement’ recommendations from the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody Warning: This article contains references to Indigenous Australians who have died Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The country’s longest serving Aboriginal affairs minister has accused governments of … Read more