Legal experts have lodged a complaint with the United Nations alleging the Australian government is breaching its obligations to First Nations children in detention under international human rights law. It comes as state and territory governments across the country crack down on youth crime with punitive laws.

An Indigenous-led program that’s already helping hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people quit smoking and vaping is about to go national, thanks to a new $4.7 million grant. Which Way? Quit Pack has been developed by a team at the University of Newcastle, led by Wiradjuri woman Associate Professor Michelle Kennedy.

For thousands of years, Aboriginal people in Tasmania have harvested yula, also known as muttonbirds, a short-tailed shearwater. The harvest is one of the oldest cultural practices for Tasmanian Aboriginal people. But as another season is looming, it's facing a number of threats.

A High Court decision has cleared the way for "significant" compensation for the Gumatj people of the Northern Territory. The Court has upheld an earlier Federal Court ruling that a site at Gove in northeast Arnhem Land was not acquired in the 1960s for bauxite mining on just terms.

The second annual Call it Out report has been released by the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney. The report maps incidents of racism experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous Australians are most commonly experiencing widespread stereotyping and discrimination - and nowhere is safe for them from racist abuse.

The anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations has been commemorated in Federal Parliament. It has been 17 years since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a historic apology for racial discrimination against First Nations people. It is estimated that between one in three, and one in 10, Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their parents in the period between 1910 and 1970.

The Northern Territory's soaring prison population has broken a grim new record. More than four and half thousand people are now crammed into prisons and police watch-houses. Police and justice advocates say chronic over-crowding and extended lock downs are taking a toll a toll on officers and inmates alike.

Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum collections since the 19th century have been handed back at a ceremony that a community representative described as a sad but "very joyful" moment. The restitution is part of ongoing efforts by German museums and authorities to return human remains and cultural artefacts that were taken during colonial times.

Internet use is growing in remote First Nations communities, but cost is still a barrier. A new study from RMIT University has revealed that even though progress is being made, there is still a long way to go to close the digital gap for communities.

In South Australia, a public inquiry has found the number of Aboriginal children being removed from their families is approaching levels equivalent to the Stolen Generations. One in every ten First Nations children is in state care, and that figure is expected to increase to 14 in every 100 within seven years if not addressed. This is the story of how one grandmother took on the state department of child protection to bring her grandkids home.