National Indigenous Times

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The National Indigenous Times (NIT) is an Indigenous Australian affairs newspaper first published on February 27, 2002. It was set up by Owen Carriage, the founder of the Koori Mail, and a group of other Australians, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. The paper seeks to:

build a bridge between black and white Australia
reporting the tough issues giving a "warts-and-all" look at Indigenous affairs and mainstream Australia
work towards Indigenous Australians better access to education and access by non-Indigenous Australians information on Indigenous issues

There is a belief that Indigenous media tends to "go soft" on Indigenous people or organisations in response to the history of discrimination as a protective response^{[citation needed]}. There is also the perception that the mainstream Australian media tends to misreport indigenous affairs, whether through intent or ignorance, and regularly sensationalises Indigenous issues^{[citation needed]}.

In NIT's first two years, the vast majority of stories have reflected positively on Indigenous people and organisations. But NIT has also broken major news stories on the corruption, bullying and fraud within Aboriginal organisations.

Major news stories broken by the NIT include:

stolen wages (For which a Walkley Award was won)^[1]
government staff anonymously representing themselves as independent witnesses^[2] in the Lateline report on child abuse in remote communities, with particular reference to Mutitjulu, Northern Territory.