The run of what traditional owners regard as serious insults to their beliefs and culture has renewed pressure to close Uluru.

Two security guards won't face charges over the heat stroke death of a West Australian Aboriginal elder in a prison van.

Native Australians are calling for the deportation of a French tourist who offended their cultural sensitivities.

Rapid colonisation left Maori in the lower North Island virtually landless and stripped them of decision-making power, the Waitangi Tribunal has found.

Political commentator John Armstrong says nothing happening in politics this week had a hope of upstaging the fall and fall of Chris Carter.

'Cannibals' remark fuels racism-in-sport row across the Tasman.

Queensland's crime watchdog has slammed the way police handled the death in custody of Palm Island man Cameron Doomadgee.

Maori groups awarded customary title in the foreshore and seabed will be the legal owners of it and the minerals beneath it.

The Govt will introduce a new property title that can be claimed over the foreshore and seabed.

National has relaxed the threshold for claiming customary title but the iwi leaders want it relaxed even further.

A Ngapuhi leader is calling for a nine per cent economic development tax to be levied on everyone living inside the iwi's boundary.

As the Waitangi Tribunal prepares to issues its recommendations on the most far-reaching claim yet, an improved ability to talk through our different viewpoints will be critical.

Northland Maori want a special economic development tax as part of their Treaty settlement.

Maori will refuse to forgo their rights to the foreshore and seabed unless private owners do the same, an iwi leaders' group has warned.