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 ...

Semi-detribalized natives will be settled in reserves, in which they will be enabled to live in native fashion; and myalls, aborigines completely under tribal institutions, will live in the ...

The aborigines briefly took center stage again in February of 2008, when former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a speech formally apologizing to them for their "past mistreatment." ...

Geneticists sequenced the Y chromosomes of Aboriginal Australians and found evidence that the population was isolated for tens of thousands of years.

By Associated Press Australia's High Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that indigenous Australians cannot be deported even if they do not hold Australian citizenship.

But 100,000 Aborigines still live in squalid housing and many children are still absent from school, figures show, and communities themselves report mixed results.

Aborigines challenging proposals to dump nuclear waste from northern Scotland to a sacred Australian site have won a breakthrough meeting with government officials about their concerns ...

Two big Australian retailers have stopped selling "Australia Day" T-shirts deemed offensive to aboriginal people for saying the country was established in 1788, when European settlers first arrived.

A tent city has sprung up near Australia's national parliament as Aborigines arrive in the nation's capital to hear the government apologise for past injustices against indigenous children and ...

Aborigines: 'I was terrified. I didn't know anything about white fellas' Until 1964, they had never been in contact with the outside world. Newly discovered footage captures the moment their ...

SYDNEY, Australia – The new Australian government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will apologize for past mistreatment of the country’s Aboriginal minority when Parliament convenes next month ...