It's been 30 years this week since the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were handed down. In that time, more than half of those who died in police custody were ...

The family of Kumanjayi White are asking for CCTV footage and an independent investigation a week after the 24-year-old died in police custody at a supermarket in Alice Springs, Central Australia.

Alcohol has long been identified as the key problem in Alice Springs crime - and bans and policing its primary solutions. But that is far too simplistic, which is why is hasn’t worked.

Once alcohol flowed again, there was an explosion of crime in Alice Springs widely attributed to Aboriginal people. Local and federal politicians reinstated the ban late last month. And Mr. Shaw ...

Federal government ‘interventions’ have been shown not to work. In 2007, claims of endemic crime in remote Aboriginal communities precipitated the Northern Territory Intervention.This was a ...

Peter Dutton, the federal leader of the Liberal Party, used a tour of Alice Springs last week to vilify the town’s Aboriginal population, with lurid allegations of widespread child abuse and ...

Indigenous Territorians are one of the most incarcerated people on the planet, with three percent of the total Aboriginal population starting the week in a prison cell.

New laws stripping more child offenders from access to prison alternatives have been criticised for failing to tackle the ...

A national-first diversion program in western Victoria has been set up for low-level Aboriginal offenders to front elders, rather than court. Unlike Koori Court, where offenders must plead guilty ...

The Corrections department confirmed that 2509 Indigenous people were in custody as of Monday June 30 — the equivalent of 3 per cent of the NT’s total Aboriginal population. T ...

When 15-year-old Carly Bates attended her first session at Breaking Barriers, an Aboriginal youth program in western Sydney, she had low confidence and feared the police. Two years later, her ...