Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. O’Donoghue, who passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday in Adelaide ...

Two female Aboriginal lawmakers with very different political views are campaigning against the proposal to create an advisory body on Indigenous issues. By Natasha Frost Reporting from Hobart, ...

Hannah McGlade is a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. Only a year after the 46,000 year-old sacred Aboriginal site Juukan Gorge was destroyed by Rio Tinto, the West ...

Historic hair samples collected from Aboriginal people show that following an initial migration 50,000 years ago, populations spread rapidly around the east and west coasts of Australia. Our research, ...

Aboriginal Australians are one of the more poorly studied populations from the standpoint of human evolution and genetic diversity. Thus, to investigate their genetic diversity, the possible date of ...

A leader of the Aboriginal civil rights movement has been remembered for his pioneering work and his quest for justice. Wiradjuri Elder, lawyer and activist Paul Coe died last month aged 76. He played ...

An investigation has been launched after vandals allegedly performed donuts on a historic Aboriginal site at Flinders Island. Situated on the island's west coast, the site was Australia's first ...

Linda Burney remembers her childhood all too well. In those days, she says she was invisible to the Australian government and its people. Aboriginals did not have the same rights as other Australians, ...

Melbourne, the southernmost state capital of the Australian mainland, was established by Europeans a couple hundred years ago at the juncture of a great river and a wind-whipped bay. Port Phillip Bay ...

As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention. By Thomas Fuller Photographs and Video ...