A national focus on news, events & issues that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Hear interviews, features and community stories from the SBS NITV Radio program.

"They were picking up her bones like shells off the beach. That's when it hit me. I have to try and do something to save this place. It affects you mentally, it affects you spiritually" - Yessie Mosby#sbsaudiopodcast

The Island of Masig is an Indigenous Protected Area, Yessie Mosby had an experience in 2017 that changed the course of his life and career.#sbsaudiopodcast

Australia's Indigenous Desert Alliance runs a program known as Right Way Desert Fire, in the running to win one of the world's best-known environmental awards.#sbsaudiopodcast

Shy-Anne shares about the music video making process and collaborating with dancers, council and the Suckle Creek Drum Group. The musical and visual contributions from community coming together in a full-circle storytelling project of the Long Lake #58 First Nation.#sbsaudiopodcast

"Earth Flow is about, looking at the library space as a modern day place of gathering and nurturing of legacy and chapters of life" - William Barton#sbsaudiopodcast

Sporting Chance Foundation aims to provide specialist orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander athletes and cultural dancers.#sbsaudiopodcast

A report has found more than 6,500 First Nations people living in remote communities were supplied with water that did not meet the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines.#sbsaudiopodcast

"Everything that the current government is doing is contrary to the Closing The Gap targets"#sbsaudiopodcast

Bringing together more than 30 Indigenous community members and ally artists, with Shy Anne Hovorka.#sbsaudiopodcast

Western Australia's child protection policies have come under intensified scrutiny after a group of up to 15 Indigenous children were found living without adult supervision in a public housing home in South Hedland.#sbsaudiopodcast

"A lot of Tony's works celebrates survival and cultural pride with a keen and critical eye" - Jaala Hallet#sbsaudiopodcast

Peta-Joy Williams is the inaugural First Nations Yagali artist residence for 2024 Sharing with NITV Radio 2 years on for this years Sydeney Fringe Festival.#sbsaudiopodcast

In a night of live music, DJs and art inspired by the exhibition 'Tony Albert: Not a Souvenir' the Museum of Contemporary Art activates the space with 'MCA Loves Tony Albert'.#sbsaudiopodcast

The South Australian government has appealed for help from the Commonwealth, to import a vaccine it hopes will protect the seal population on Kangaroo Island from bird flu.#sbsaudiopodcast

Digital Duty of Care legislation proposal for Australian social media users to have the ability to opt-out of algorithms and revert to a linear sequence that only shows posts from accounts that they follow.#sbsaudiopodcast

A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry is examining the cultural significance of dingoes - and the role First Nations knowledge could play in managing the animals#sbsaudiopodcast

Acclaimed Wiradjuri, Yuin actor Angeline Penrith speaks life into the knowledge held within the walls of the unconventional performance space at the State Library NSW.#sbsaudiopodcast

"the program did exactly what we wanted it to do, which was build a relationship and to see more First Nations people inside to organisation" - Erica Brennan#sbsaudiopodcast

The NSW Aboriginal Land Council have long argued the changes are rushed, to controversial reforms to crown land management in the state, calling them an "attack by stealth" on land rights by reclassifying claimable land.

At 36, proud Aboriginal woman Tahnee Capon reflects on how adult education helped her navigate one of the most challenging periods of her life.

At 29, proud Kamilaroi man Arron Brienesse reflects on how adult learning helped him overcome barriers to employment and build confidence in his skills and abilities.

Responding to Stephen Page's iconic body of work with a performance taking over the State Library NSW.

The federal government will this week introduce a motion to parliament to continue funding pay rises for childcare workers until late 2029.

conversation with Katrina Clark Aboriginal Immunisation Manager at Health protection.

Bangarra's FuturesPast will be have a limited run from 17-19 September at IPAC before its international premiere in Mexico.

The Kindred People festival is underway, with First Nations artists, Elders and knowledge holders gathering at Monash University in Melbourne for the five-day event.

Anna Hogan has spent many years in the welfare sector delivering support. cultural and social connections for workers coming from the Pacific Islands. This year is nominated for her dedication to community at the 2026 NSW Pacific Council Awards.

As the seasons change Australians are urged to begin Bushfire preparations as weather conditions warnings, risks and bushfire plans can and will differ by state and region.

First Nations programming will feature prominently at this year's Darebin FUSE Festival, with curator Ethan Savage bringing together music, dance, visual arts and cultural practices. The program explores contemporary expressions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, while highlighting connections to Country, community and histories of resistance.

The annual Pacific Islands Forum in Palau continues with leaders set to discuss regional security, environment and climate.

Jaiden McGregor—a Roberta Sykes scholar born on Larrakia country in Darwin with ancestral connections to the Nyikina people of the central Kimberley—is stepping onto the global stage with a clear and urgent purpose. Awarded an international scholarship through the Aurora Education Foundation, Jaiden is bound for University College London (UCL) to study a Master of Arts in Education and International Development, with a focus on Conflict, Emergencies, and Peace.

Indigenous country artist Glennys Briggs and her husband Ian Muir, known as The Muirs, are bringing a quieter, heartfelt energy to Finucane & Smith's high-octane Dance Palace at Luna Park. In this conversation on the sidelines of the show, the couple talk about chance meetings, songs of self-worth, and what it means to share their music with both mob and a broader audience.

"It thinks about the history of bells in this country and what signify and what they have been used for"

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people recognised for their work and impact in categories such as Person of the Year , Lifetime Achievement, Female male Elder , Sportsperson Award and more at the 2026 National NAIDOC Awards.

Two thousand days after Victoria's Royal Commission into Mental Health promised systemic change, 121 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died by suicide. Nicola Perry-Peters, director of VACCHO's Balit Durn Durn Centre, discusses the urgent need for funded First Nations healing centres as culturally safe, holistic alternatives to a fragmented mainstream system.

Australians could have the ability to opt out of social media algorithms under new digital laws as leaders try to limit the spread of violent, misogynistic content online.

Shonae Hobson, a proud Southern Kaantju, Umpila, and Kuuku Ya'u woman from the remote community of Coen in Cape York Peninsula, is part of a groundbreaking new wave of First Nations leaders. She has been awarded a prestigious Roberta Sykes Scholarship through the Aurora Education Foundation to undertake a Master of Arts in Art Business at the world-renowned Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York.

A research that focused on urban gardens with traditional bush foods and the response from community

A conversation with Charlene Davis froom Marnin studio a therapeutic, culturally grounded space where women come together to create and connect who have taken to the runway at Country to Couture.

"Yes it is my story, but it is a bigger kaupapa that's happening all over" - Bianca Hyslop

So-called “pervert glasses” could be temporarily banned from Australia, amid growing fears they're being used to secretly film people in public.

"If we want a strong future workforce, we need to create culturally safe pathways into employment" - Karen Ingram

National Science Week celebrating innovation, medicine, research and roles in history of LGBTQIA+ scientists, as well as First Nations inventors and migrants are shaping the future.

Torres Strait Islander VR game teaches players about culture, traditional knowledge and environment at the same time

An Indigenous education expert is calling for systemic changes to education after the latest NAPLAN results highlighted challenges faced by First Nations students across Australia.

"It's got universal themes, that work around things like colonisation impacts, things of how to decolonise, impacts of religion on family dynamics, grief, loss and climate change" - Grace Iwashita-Taylor

Curator and co-creator of UPU Grace Iwashita-Taylor gives insight into the theatre poetry production, UPU, joining the line up at Kindred People Festival.

Hundreds have gathered in Kalkarindji in the Northern Territory this weekend to celebrate the Freedom Day Festival, a marking the 60th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off.

60 years ago, 200 Gurindji, Mudburra and Warlpiri people walked off a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory, the Wave Hill Walk-Off the start of the modern Aboriginal Land Rights movement.

Proud Gadigal woman Konstantina (AKA Kate Constantine) reflects on the success of her recent exhibitions in France and Switzerland.

Independent Member for Mulka, Yiŋiya Mark Guyula, in the Northern Territory is stepping down from politics.