Episodes

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

    Lawyer warns NT policies on legal aid are 'catastrophic, unsustainable, untenable, and dishonest'
    Nov 4 2024
    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.
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    9 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Senator Lidia Thorpe speaks to SBS about her protest to King Charles

    INTERVIEW: Senator Lidia Thorpe speaks to SBS about her protest to King Charles
    Oct 24 2024
    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.
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    14 mins
  • Tiwi people hold healing ceremony for bereaved US families

    Tiwi people hold healing ceremony for bereaved US families
    Sep 26 2024
    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.
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    3 mins
  • The laundry service that's changing lives for good

    The laundry service that's changing lives for good
    Sep 26 2024
    A free community laundry service has seen encouraging results in reducing the prevalence of skin infections and scabies in remote Northern Territory communities. Untreated scabies infestations can lead to dangerous secondary infections, which can then be a factor in causing rheumatic heart disease.
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    7 mins
  • Aboriginal tenants seek housing justice

    Aboriginal tenants seek housing justice
    Aug 23 2024
    Aboriginal tenants in Western Australia have launched a class action against state housing authorities, alleging severe neglect of their homes. It comes amid a housing crisis nationwide. The tenants are seeking justice for years of substandard living conditions, highlighting a need for accountability and urgent reforms.
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    5 mins
  • "Little, if any, justice": long-awaited report delivered into missing and murdered First Nations women

    "Little, if any, justice": long-awaited report delivered into missing and murdered First Nations women
    Aug 16 2024
    The landmark report makes ten recommendations for federal, state and territory governments and calls on government to co-design solutions with First Nations communities. It's also called for a review into existing police practices in each jurisdiction.
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    5 mins
  • Government announces Indigenous knowledge priority for science and research

    Government announces Indigenous knowledge priority for science and research
    Aug 12 2024
    Indigenous knowledge will - for the first time - be a focus of the Federal Government's set of scientific priorities. The National Science and Research Priorities will guide Australian science and research efforts for the next decade, replacing the current framework, published in 2015.
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    4 mins
  • 'Our Aboriginal children in crisis': survey reveals shocking homelessness numbers

    'Our Aboriginal children in crisis': survey reveals shocking homelessness numbers
    Aug 5 2024
    Australia's chief organisation for homelessness services says the situation is worsening for children and families in a report released to coincide with Homelessness Week (August 5-11). Homelessness Australia says First Nations children made up 32 per cent of homeless children nationally.
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    6 mins