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3 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price abandoned her bid to become deputy leader of the Liberal Party after Sussan Ley won the leadership ballot on Tuesday morning. Ms Ley, a moderate who will become the first female leader of the Liberals in their 81-year history, won the ballot 29-25 over Angus Taylor. After Mr Taylor, a conservative, was defeated, Senator Price did not contend for the deputy leadership ballot, which was won by Queensland MP Ted O'Brien.
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3 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Callan Morse |Dechlan Brennan |Joseph Guenzler |Giovanni Torre
Backing the Indigenous Voice to Parliament was Peter Dutton's "best chance of transforming himself into a supportable prime minister", Noel Pearson says - and a longtime Coalition strategist agrees. In his 2022 election night speech, now re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signalled his commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart "in-full" and pursuit of a "gracious call for a voice enshrined in our constitution".
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3 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
Malarndirri McCarthy's continuation as Minister for Indigenous Australians has been welcomed by the Coalition of Peaks, as they call for a more government-wide contribution to Closing the Gap. Just over a week after Labor's landslide election victory, the peak representative body for more than 80 Indigenous community-controlled organisations called on all ministers in the new cabinet to take responsibility in their portfolios for Closing the Gap.
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3 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
Footage of an ACT Policing officer telling an Aboriginal teenager he "wouldn't have the guts" to "neck" himself has been condemned by the Territory's Indigenous children's commissioner, calling it a "deliberate incitement to an Aboriginal child to end his life".
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4 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
Northern Territory Senator Malarndirri McCarthy will continue as Minister for Indigenous Australians in Labor's new ministry after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the new cabinet on Monday. The Yanyuwa woman from the Gulf country was re-elected as one of the NT's two Senators last Saturday and will continue in the Indigenous affairs portfolio she first took charge of after the retirement of Linda Burney last year.
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4 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
A new report has indicated First Peoples are losing trust in the health system, with decolonising needed in primary health care to ensure cultural safety. Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Decolonising Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Project (2018-2024) has highlighted the importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care services and how decolonising strategies offer a holistic health care approach.
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4 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
Australia's peak body for Indigenous children is establishing a 'Youth Voice' to give First Nations children and young people a platform to inform policies and programs that impact them. SNAICC – National Voice for Our Children said on Monday the Youth Voice would provide a mechanism for young Indigenous children to shape and contribute to SNAICC's work in a "safe, supported and reciprocal environment".
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5 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has called on the Prime Minister to condemn the behaviour of an Indigenous activist who confronted her in an Adelaide hotel. On Friday, footage showed Senator Price calling Noongar advocate Marianne Mackay a "nobody," in response to heckling from Ms Mackay in the lobby of the Intercontinental hotel in Adelaide.
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6 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
Tamworth has become Australia's first town to see a local council and Aboriginal community-controlled organisation sign a formal agreement to work together on Closing the Gap. In a landmark partnership between the Tamworth Regional Council and a group of local Aboriginal organisations, the Mara Ngali - 'our two hands' working together - Partnership Agreement was signed on Friday.
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6 days ago | 
nit.com.au | Dechlan Brennan
The Victorian government has announced that hundreds of new homes will be built for Indigenous people in Victoria. Part of the government's big build, Housing Minister Harriet Shing said on Friday more than $153 million will be invested to deliver up to 348 new homes in Victoria. "We're delivering hundreds of homes across the state for First Nations Victorians through our record investment in social and affordable housing across the state," she said.
