Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia filed a landmark lawsuit Tuesday aimed at forcing the government to protect them from climate change through deeper cuts to carbon emissions
Published May 27, 2021
After the conversations around the systemic injustice towards our First Nations Australians, events need to do a much better job at recognising and spotlighting our Indigenous creatives. Cut to this year’s Afterpay Australian Fashion Week which is not only being held on the same week as National Reconciliation Week but opens with the event’s first welcome to country performance by First Nations designer
Grace Lillian Lee.
“Our practices and native landscapes have served as a great source of inspiration. Our people and our land continue to contribute to the growth and development of this nation,” Lee said in a statement.
 The life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is a national disgrace, Aboriginals from outback NSW say. The Daily Telegraph has spent the past week visiting remote Indigenous communities in the state s far west. Some young families say the most pressing problems they face are a lack of access to fresh food and the threat of substance abuse. The potential long-term effects of these problems are reflected in the latest federal government statistics on how long Aboriginals can expect to live. In 2015-17, life expectancy at birth for Indigenous Aussies was estimated to be 71.6 years for men and 75.6 years for women. In contrast, the life expectancy at birth for non-Indigenous Australians was 80.2 years for men and 83.4 years for women.