A 90-year-old tuft of hair has yielded the first complete genome of an Aboriginal Australian, a young man who lived in southwest Australia. He, and perhaps all Aboriginal Australians, the genome ...

The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university.

Aboriginal Australians are all related to a common group of ancestors who emerged on the mainland some 50,000 years ago. Centuries after British colonization ravaged their population, these ...

After an effort to give Aboriginal Australians a modest voice to parliament was resoundingly rejected, many Indigenous peoples are mulling what they can do next.

The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act came into force on July 1 and was designed to prevent a repeat of the destruction witnessed at the 46-000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelter, which was ...

Aboriginal Australian children are too often removed from their families In the state of New South Wales, they account for just 4.5% of the child population, but represented 47% of young people ...

Aboriginal group makes native title claim across six local government areas as residents lash out at secret land grab after learning about it in the newspaper ...

Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custody. Kumanjayi White’s death at Alice Springs supermarket raises painful memories for Warlpiri community.

NSW will remove 65,000 years of Aboriginal history from its years 7–10 syllabus. It’s a step backwards for education Published: October 3, 2024 9:39pm EDT • Updated: October 11, 2024 12:00am EDT ...

The Aboriginal flag emoji is now available on Apple iOS via the Genmoji feature. First Nations-led illustration agency Solid Lines has developed a method to bring the Aboriginal flag into Apple's ...

Ancient Aboriginal sites on Tasmania's rugged and national heritage-listed northwest coast have been "destroyed" by off-road 4WD users, an Indigenous group and conservationists claim.

Growing up in an Indigenous Aboriginal family in Australia, nothing was scarier to horror director Jon Bell than the government. He recalls the “Stolen Generations,” a tragedy that Americans ...