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First Nations First

Follow stories concerning First Nations peoples and Indigenous Australia, with this collection of reports and interviews from the SBS News team.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    A "national shame": landmark Northern Territory inquest shines light on DV

    The Northern Territory Coroner has handed down her findings into the killing of four Aboriginal women by their partners. After a year-long inquiry, Elisabeth Armitage has painted a bleak picture of 'relentless violence' against women and children, with frontline agencies overwhelmed and underfunded. She has now made 35 recommendations calling for change.

    6 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    New project challenges Australia's colonial-lens historical views

    A new million-dollar project from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University is compiling the largest ever documentary history of Australia from an Indigenous perspective. Ngura Ninti, which means 'knowing home', is the first of its kind and aims to challenge the common understanding of Australian history as told through a colonial lens.

    8 min

  3. 6 DAYS AGO

    Why is Australia taking so long to sign a formal treaty with First Nations peoples?

    For generations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have called for a formal treaty or treaties to recognise their sovereignty. Now, formal negotiations have begun in Victoria to establish the nation's first-ever treaty between a state and its First Nations people. But other countries including Canada, New Zealand and the United States began signing treaties centuries ago, so what's taken Australia so long?

    10 min

  4. 13 NOV

    Record incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians prompt calls for community-led solutions

    New data from the New South Wales government suggests there's a record number of Aboriginal adults in custody in the state. Advocacy groups are calling for community-led solutions nationally to combat the over-representation of Indigenous adults and children in custody.

    6 min

  5. 12 NOV

    Remembering one of the darkest chapters in Australian history

    This is the legacy of Rottnest Island, now a popular tourist destination off the coast of Perth - thousands of First Nations men and boys sent to suffer or die on a prison island in horrific circumstances. Descendants of those who were imprisoned there have now come together to commemorate the island's traumatic past and celebrate the resilience of their people.

    4 min

  6. 4 NOV

    Lawyer warns NT policies on legal aid are 'catastrophic, unsustainable, untenable, and dishonest'

    As the new Northern Territory government implements the tough-on-crime policies that helped bring them to office, access to legal aid is being cut back sharply, raising concerns vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be left to defend themselves in court.

    9 min

  7. 24 OCT

    INTERVIEW: Senator Lidia Thorpe speaks to SBS about her protest to King Charles

    Senator Lidia Thorpe has defended her protest during the King's visit to Canberra. She says her calls for a treaty have garnered international attention, and has furthered the national conversation. But the headlines remain squarely on her eligibility as a senator. Listen to her full interview with SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson about the controversy.

    14 min

  8. 26 SEPT

    Tiwi people hold healing ceremony for bereaved US families

    A traditional healing ceremony has been held in Darwin for the families of three US Marines who died during a training exercise over the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory. Around two dozen personnel were on board an Osprey aircraft when it crashed on the remote Melville Island, north of Darwin, in August last year.

    3 min
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Follow stories concerning First Nations peoples and Indigenous Australia, with this collection of reports and interviews from the SBS News team.

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  • Channel
    SBS News
  • Creator
    SBS
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    97
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    © Copyright 2024, Special Broadcasting Services
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