IN 1899 Spencer and Gillen, writing about the Arunta tribe of Australia, declared that the natives possessed no knowledge whatsoever of the relationship between coitus and pregnancy, and in the early ...

A GREAT deal has been written, and has yet to be written, about the origin of the Australian natives. Considering the immense area that they occupy, there is a considerable amount of uniformity both ...

Foreign Correspondence NEW YORK TIMES. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook MOUNT DRUITT, Australia (AP) – As a girl, Mari Melito Russell felt out of place. She was darker ...

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott shifted his office to a tent in an isolated Aboriginal community Monday, keeping a promise made when he came to power despite having just committed troops to the ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Aborigines in a tiny, remote community in Australia's outback cast the first votes in the nation's national elections on Monday, queuing under the shade of a tin shed which became ...

Discover the insights into the Indian-Australian phylogenetic link through mitochondrial DNA analysis of ancient populations. Dr Raghavendra Rao worked with a team of researchers from the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard placed racial reconciliation on the election agenda on Thursday promising to hold a national vote on whether to recognise Aborigines in the ...

Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth has welcomed a call by Pope Benedict XVI for the Australian government to "seek forgiveness" from the Aboriginal people as a path to reconciliation. The archbishop ...

Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in the Outback, schools held assemblies and giant TV screens went up in state capitals Wednesday as Australians watched a live broadcast of their government ...

Two slightly burnt, fat-covered sticks discovered inside an Australian cave are evidence of a healing ritual that was passed down unchanged by more than 500 generations of Indigenous people over the ...