Indigenous women

Sonja Stewart has been appointed the first Indigenous Chair of The GO Foundation, an organisation providing opportunities for Indigenous youth through education.

Nakkiah Lui is leading a new generation of new voices as she teams up with Allen and Unwin to curate a list of authors for a new imprint, called JOAN.

Teela May Reid has been awarded this year’s Daisy Utemorrah Prize at the WA Premier’s Book Awards for her unpublished manuscript “Our Matriarchs Matter.”

“Every generation needs to be told why Black Lives Matter. Here we are again,” says Marcia Langton in her Thea Astley Address at the Byron Writers Festival.

Yamaji woman and writer Charmaine Papertalk Green wins the 2020 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for her collection of poetry, “Nganajungu Yagu”.

During COVID-19, Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander communities were disproportionately affected. Jessie Tu examines how it has impacted women in STEM.

Atlanta’s mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former lawyer, judge and mum of four has emerged as ‘the face and the voice’ of the Democrats in recent days.

Tara June Winch takes out three NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, including People’s Choice, Book of the Year and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

#OchreRibbonWeek raises awareness of the impacts of family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, which remains a national crisis.

Lucashenko’s work is a powerful response to the entrenched racism that still shapes Australian culture. This year, her sixth novel wins Miles Franklin Award

The 2019 Young Australian of the Year Finalist Karlie Noon is the first Indigenous woman in Australia to graduate with a double degree in maths & physics.

In NAIDOC week entrepreneur Dixie Crawford says black women in business in Australia are too easily underestimated. She wants them to know their strength.