A group of prominent Indigenous leaders, bureaucrats and business chiefs is working to redefine the role of government in battling the enduring social dysfunction, third-world poverty, illness and deprivation that blights Indigenous Australia....
We strongly support the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and the 30 June 2017 recommendations of the Referendum Council. We s...
A full-frontal assault on drug and alcohol abuse in the east Kimberley aimed at ending family violence and a failed era of passive welfare will be unveiled today, as part of a new government alliance with the region’s indigenous leaders....
More than two years ago, 25 indigenous leaders gathered on the NSW central coast. As a group, we embodied the diversity of Aboriginal Australia, being that we came from and represented urban, regional and remote communities. We were drawn...
The Barang Regional Alliance has now officially been established, with the inaugural Board appointed. Barang is a new Central Coast organisation aimed at empowering the Aboriginal community of the Central Coast through a unified voice....
Docker River, Mutitjulu, Aputula (Finke) and Imanpa residents are a step closer to adopting a new plan that would give them more power to run their own communities. The federal government is expected to s...
An economic round table in Shepparton yesterday brought together about 40 thinkers from across Australia to discuss ways to improve economic engagement in the Aboriginal community. The first of its kind in the region, the Algabonyah Econo...
Aboriginal leaders are calling for a new wave of land rights reform to boost economic development in indigenous communities and build on the native title legislation they say has been undermined by bureaucracy. In the opening address to t...
The recent ructions over the closure of remote communities in Western Australia left me yearning for the counsel of the late development economist Helen Hughes. The professor and development economist was a great friend of the remote communiti...
'My singular idea for solving the most long standing political problem in Australia, and that is the relationship between Indigenous people and the nation, is what a very large number of Aboriginal leaders are calling Empowered Communities.'...
