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What happens when a remote island community must build its own dialysis unit to keep families together? In Galiwin’ku, a Yolŋu community on Elcho Island in the Northern Territory, rates of chronic kidney disease are rising, forcing many to leave their homelands for life-saving dialysis treatment—often hundreds of kilometres away. In this episode, Dr Sarah Hanieh speaks with Charlie Yebarrarr Dhama...

Who gets awarded for bravery and why? In the final episode of Uncle Charlie: The Invisible Hero, host Paulien Roessink speaks to community members who know a lot about awarding bravery. We’ll hear from David Arden, the president of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia, and Michael Bell, Indigenous Liaison for the Australian War Memorial, alongside previous guests of the series. We'll find out w...

"working with and listening to communities directly has been really fundamental"

Labor's election promise will see 20 per cent of higher education debt cut for three million Australians, with the income threshold to start paying back the debt lifted to $67,000.

Rock wallabies once thought to be extinct in WA, until a pair were spotted in a remote gorge by rock climbers in 2016.

"for me the GO Foundation has been a lot more than financial support, there's a strong community there that does a lot of mentoring"

"Importantly those entrepreneurs are generating that value purely by operating...because there shouldn't be an expectation on Indigenous businesses to go above and beyond, and provide programs that we would not expect the average small to medium enterprise to provide."

Musician, songwriter and music producer, Candice Lorrae is no stranger to the spotlight, but her recent recognition as one of two recipients of the First Nations Fellowship award at the 2025 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards is a powerful reminder of the impact she’s having across both industry and community.

"The lack of indigenous people in the commercial fishing industry is so, so unfortunate. If you can create a business that's sustainable, that's culturally directed, you can create jobs and a middle class within small coastal towns."

"I was a appreciative to be a finalist, let alone a winner. I felt like a winner just being a finalist and having my work recognised."

"everything I wanted when I first started performing was to not be the only Blakfulla in the room... it's so rewarding on a personal and community level to have more and more young queer mob coming into these spaces"

Action to further protect children in childcare is set to be among the federal government's first priorities.

The Federal Court delivered its ruling on the case that was lodged in 2015, granting three traditional owner groups the Latji Latji, Ngintait and Nyeri Nyeri peoples, native title in Victoria's northwest.

"It's part storytelling, it's part performance, it's part drag and part drag"

Baleen Moondjan, Tina - A Tropical Love Story, Preparing Ground and The Bogong Song are just some of the First Nations programming in 2025's Brisbane Festival.

A legal complaint has been lodged against Quantas over last months cyber attack that saw millions of customers data stolen.

"My heart is broken for my family and my community. Love has driven us on this journey for the last 5 years, love for our families and communities. That love will keep driving us."

Two years after the Broome air raid—when Japanese Zero fighter planes attacked and more than 80 lives were lost—local Bardi man Charles D’Antoine was awarded a medal by the Kingdom of the Netherlands for saving three Dutch nationals. Now, 83 years on, the Australian government has yet to formally acknowledge Uncle Charlie’s act of bravery. In the second episode of this 3-part series, host Paulien...

On a hot autumn day in Broome, 1942 a young Indigenous man named Charles D’Antoine is cleaning boat planes along Roebuck Bay. Charles, also known as Uncle Charlie to his loved ones, couldn’t have imagined the carnage that was about to be unleashed on this small regional town. Japanese Zero fighter planes launched a devastating air raid on Broome, leaving approximately 80 people dead. Amid the chao...

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"it is about commemorating something that is cultural and significant... but we want to decolonise it in form and in scale"

In the midst of a new permanent landmark at Sydney Circular Quay by Alison Page, forms the Sydney Coastal Aboriginal Women's Group.

Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibits in London's TATE Modern.