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Former Indigenous Australians minister Ken Wyatt.

Wyatt calls for Indigenous Procurement Policy to be shut down if ‘black clad’ rorts continue

Ken Wyatt said contracts flowed mainly to businesses in major capital cities despite most Indigenous Australians living outside the capitals.

  • Victoria Laurie

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Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow, president of Jigsaw Queensland, said the inquiry heard of adoption “largely as a policy mechanism rather than as a lived experience that continues across an entire lifespan”.

Adoption fix for child safety needs ‘robust safeguards’, service says

Queensland’s major forced adoption service provider has warned the government it must consider lifelong consequences as it forms its response to a major inquiry.

  • Matt Dennien
The proud Yued Yorga woman from Bundjalung Country

‘I nearly drowned’: How 13-year-old Leihani Zoric conquered fears to win a national title

At just 13 years old, Leihani Zoric has already won the Indigenous women’s surfing national title twice. And she’s got much bigger goals in her sights.

  • Hannah Kennelly
Kayne Jarrett and Russell Edward with  their cousin Stanley Correy.

‘This can’t just keep happening’: The family taking a retail giant to court

Two teens, their uncle and his eight-year-old son allege they were asked to leave a Superdry store and are seeking damages in a “legally significant” case.

  • Amber Schultz
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is presented with a letter written on kangaroo skin, urging the creation of a truth-telling process for national healing, by Travis Lovett, Executive Director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Truth Telling and Dialogue, and former deputy chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission.

‘Would a national truth-telling process hurt anybody?’ Long walk ends with plea for reckoning

Lovett brought the message on a slow, 38-day walk, covering more than 500 kilometres of winding rivers from Melbourne to the nation’s capital.

  • Lucinda Garbutt-Young and Lloyd Jones
Hugh Taylor and Fred Hollows on the road in 1977.

Fifty years ago, these men set out to defeat an insidious disease. A fortnight ago, they did

Fred Hollows was a true mentor and teacher. Following his example, on April 29, Australia finally defeated the world’s leading infectious cause of preventable blindness.

  • Hugh Taylor
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Yindjibarndi Group chief executive Michael Woodley.

Yindjibarndi leader urges WA government to ‘readjust priorities’ on back of Fortescue compensation win

Michael Woodley welcomed the court decision that awarded the Yindjibarndi people $150 million for cultural and economic losses, but noted the state could have stayed neutral on the compensation fight.

  • Michael Philipps
In the hot seat: Ken Hinkley coached Port Adelaide for 13 seasons.

‘I did meet with them two weeks ago’: Hinkley ducks and weaves on Tasmania coaching question

Ken Hinkley says he’s “not committed to doing any coaching jobs” after the experienced AFL coach was named as the new favourite to take the reins at Tasmania. Meanwhile, the AFL has explained why it’s opted for two matches on a Friday night a number of times this season.

  • Peter Ryan, Hannah Kennelly, Scott Spits and Shayne Hope
Djaran Murray-Jackson (left) and Meriki Onus are the new co-chairs of Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly.

Victoria’s Aboriginal leadership gets radical in fight to keep treaty

Meriki Onus, the founder of a militant Aboriginal organisation which previously vowed to destroy the Australian state, has been elected co-chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly.

  • Chip Le Grand
GIF: Melissa Jackson, 60, and her colleague and “bestie” Ronald Briggs, 58.

Ronald ‘broke’ when his partner of 27 years had a heart attack. His best friend pulled him through

Librarians Melissa Jackson and Ronald Briggs are colleagues who have become friends.

  • Stephen Lacey