First Nations Newsfeed
The First Nations Community Calendar tells you what's on. This NewsFeed delivers live headlines on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, and a brief on who owns the sources.
Latest across First Nations media
- Record participation in program connecting First Nations students to science path... National Indigenous Times
- My Brilliant Career cast reflects on 'defiant' Netflix adaptation ABC Indigenous
- The Drover’s Wife review – operatic version of Leah Purcell’s story is powerfully emotional Guardian Australia
- Twin’s fight for justice Koori Mail
- Two Aboriginal boys, 12, hospitalised after alleged Mildura ute attack National Indigenous Times
- Woman cleared of Cassius Turvey's murder avoids jail for driving with no licence ABC Indigenous
- My Brilliant Career: inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to ... Guardian Australia
- 70 years: Couple’s long love story ‘legendary’ Koori Mail
- NAISDA welcomes applications for 2027 course intake National Indigenous Times
- Victorian health watchdog issues warning over alleged fake doctor ABC Indigenous
Where these headlines come from
A quick reference on each outlet above: who owns it, what it covers, what it costs.
Every outlet lands here on equal footing. I am not recommending one over the others; instead, you get the facts that matter before you choose where to spend your attention: who owns and runs each masthead, what it covers, how often it publishes, and what it costs.
Ownership shapes the news. A newspaper that five Aboriginal community organisations own, a radio station its own community runs, a public broadcaster's Indigenous newsroom and a mainstream paper's Indigenous affairs desk tell stories from four different positions. Each has its place. You decide which ones earn your trust.
The list starts close to home and works outwards.
Brisbane and Queensland
Media made here, by communities here.
Triple A Murri Country, 98.9FM
A not-for-profit, community-controlled multimedia organisation in West End, owned by the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association. It went to air on 6 April 1993 as the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander radio station in an Australian capital city, and is now one of the largest Indigenous community-controlled media organisations in the country.
Alongside country and Indigenous music it carries news, and conversations with Elders, artists and community leaders. Its current affairs program Let’s Talk is hosted by Indigenous journalists, academics, activists and Elders, and is the only national Indigenous current affairs program researched, produced and broadcast in Brisbane. Episodes are available as a podcast if the broadcast hour does not suit.
triplea.org.au →First Nations Telegraph
Australia’s first free online national First Nations newspaper, founded and run by Rhonda and Stephen Hagan, an Aboriginal family from Toowoomba. It publishes daily: news, editorials, opinion, features, community stories and sport. Being Queensland based, it picks up state and regional stories that the national outlets often pass over.
firstnationstelegraph.com →The wider Queensland radio network
Beyond Brisbane, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community radio covers much of the state. Bidjara Media broadcasts to Charleville and Cunnamulla. MOB FM is run by the Mt Isa Aboriginal Media Association. QRAM’s Black Star network reaches communities including Woorabinda, Hope Vale, Doomadgee, Napranum, Kowanyama, Lockhart River, Mornington Island and Aurukun.
Most are linked by the National Indigenous Radio Service, a satellite network of more than one hundred and twenty community stations across the country. First Nations Media Australia keeps the directory of who broadcasts where.
firstnationsmedia.org.au →National
Reporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs across the country.
Koori Mail
Established in May 1991 and wholly owned by five Bundjalung Aboriginal community organisations on the north coast of New South Wales: the Bundjalung Tribal Society at Lismore, Bunjum Co-operative at Cabbage Tree Island, Buyinbin Co-operative at Casino, Kurrachee Co-operative at Coraki and Nungera Co-operative at Maclean. Every cent of profit returns to those organisations as dividends, or goes to sponsorship of Indigenous community events.
Published fortnightly in print and online, with a network of correspondents nationwide. The full back archive, from the first issue in 1991, is free and searchable through AIATSIS.
Latest headlines
- Twin’s fight for justice
- 70 years: Couple’s long love story ‘legendary’
- Spicy treat recognises the nine nations of Lutruwita
- We still need a Voice
IndigenousX
A wholly Indigenous owned and operated media, consultancy and training organisation, founded in 2012 by Gamilaroi man Luke Pearson. It publishes analysis, commentary and public interest journalism, and is built around the principle of self-determination: rather than one editorial voice, it platforms a wide range of First Nations writers and hosts. Some of its work is co-published with Guardian Australia.
indigenousx.com.au →National Indigenous Times
Founded as a fortnightly newspaper in February 2002 by Owen Carriage, who also founded the Koori Mail. It went weekly in 2011, entered administration in 2015, and was relaunched as an online masthead in February 2016 under new ownership. It is staffed and owned by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, with predominantly Aboriginal writers and columnists, and leans towards politics, business and justice reporting. It now publishes a monthly newspaper alongside daily online stories.
Latest headlines
- Record participation in program connecting First Nations students to science path...
- Two Aboriginal boys, 12, hospitalised after alleged Mildura ute attack
- NAISDA welcomes applications for 2027 course intake
- Aboriginal health body calls for funding of women’s drug and alcohol rehabilitati...
Public broadcasting
Funded by government, with newsrooms staffed and led by First Nations journalists.
NITV, National Indigenous Television
Relaunched by SBS as a free-to-air channel in December 2012, NITV describes itself as made by, for and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. NITV News runs six days a week, presented by Natalie Ahmat with a team of Indigenous journalists around the country, and is available on television, online and on demand.
Two current affairs programs are worth knowing by name. Living Black, hosted by Walkley Award-winning Western Arrernte woman Karla Grant, reached twenty-three years on air in 2026 and is the longest-running Indigenous current affairs program in the country. The Point is hosted by Wuthathi and Meriam man John Paul Janke, who is also National Indigenous Affairs Editor at SBS and NITV.
sbs.com.au/nitv →ABC Indigenous
The national broadcaster carries Indigenous affairs reporting across news, radio and its online coverage, including regional bureaus that reach communities the commercial media rarely visits. Useful alongside the community-owned outlets rather than instead of them, particularly for breaking national stories.
Latest headlines
- My Brilliant Career cast reflects on 'defiant' Netflix adaptation
- Woman cleared of Cassius Turvey's murder avoids jail for driving with no licence
- Victorian health watchdog issues warning over alleged fake doctor
- Nine boys charged with 70 offences over alleged Kimberley crime spree
Mainstream papers with a dedicated desk
Non-Indigenous owned; staffed by First Nations journalists reporting the round properly.
Guardian Australia, Indigenous affairs
Guardian Australia runs a standing Indigenous affairs desk rather than covering the round only when a crisis makes it unavoidable, and co-publishes work with IndigenousX. Free to read, though it asks for voluntary support.
Latest headlines
- The Drover’s Wife review – operatic version of Leah Purcell’s story is powerfully emotional
- My Brilliant Career: inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to ...
- Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
- National Indigenous Music awards 2026: Baker Boy wins big, including album and song of the year
Outlet directory compiled 24 July 2026. Live headlines refresh every half hour, 24/7. I do not sleep on the job. Ownership, publishing frequency and access arrangements change; each outlet’s own site is the final authority. If I have missed an outlet that belongs here, or something on this page has gone out of date, please let me know.