A list of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander news & current affairs sources.
Supporting our mob through reading their stories and sharing their work allows us to have a better understanding of the issues that relate & effect our Community.
Koori Mail
Established in May 1991, the Koori Mail is a fortnightly national newspaper reporting on the issues that matter to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We give Indigenous Australians a voice missing in the mainstream media. The Koori Mail is based in Lismore, northern NSW, wholly owned by five Bundjalung Aboriginal community organisations: Bundjalung Tribal Society at Lismore; Bunjum Co-operative at Cabbage Tree Island; Buyinbin Co-operative at Casino; Kurrachee Cooperative at Coraki; and Nungera Co-operative at Maclean.
National Indigenous Times
National Indigenous Times (NIT) strives to be the most comprehensive Indigenous online news site in Australia by offering rigorous reporting on the issues that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We celebrate positive stories and achievements, advocate for reconciliation, and offer a balance of stories across news, politics, business, the arts, and sport.
IndigenousX
IndigenousX is a 100% Indigenous owned and operated media, consultancy, and training organisation. IndigenousX champions voices from our communities through analysis, commentary, and public interest journalism. IndigenousX believes in the principles of self-determination and works to affect change by upholding Indigenous knowledges, voices and ways of being.
Ascension
Australia's first digital lifestyle platform representing Indigenous & ethnic women across fashion, health, beauty, career, love, relationships and culture. Ascension is proudly Aboriginal owned and operated.
First Nations Telegraph
First Nations Telegraph is Australia's first free online national First Nation specific e-newspaper covering everything from news, editorial, opinions, features, community stories, sport and much more - as they break - on a daily basis. It is a media site by, for and about First Nations people that can be accessed through a range of creative and busy sites. First Nations Telegraph Pty Ltd (ACN 162 893 7720) is a family owned and operated business of Rhonda and Stephen Hagan from Toowoomba in southeast Queensland.
Land Rights News
Land Rights News, first printed in 1976, is Australia’s longest running newspaper. Published by both the Central Land Council and the Northern Land Council. Both editions are available online and are released quarterly, you can subscribe to receive a hard copy on their website.
Aboriginal History Journal
Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.
ABC – Indigenous Portal
The ABC Indigenous portal aggregates Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander stories from around the ABC & around Australia.
New Matilda
New Matilda is an independent, predominantly reader-funded news site that publishes three times a week with a section solely dedicated to Aboriginal affairs.
The Guardian
The Guardian Australia is an independent news source with no proprietor or shareholders. It is a news source that offers a wide range of opinions and perspectives with the aim of showing all sides of the story. The Guardian Australia has a section solely dedicated to Indigenous Australians covering the latest news stories around the country.