IN these two bulky volumes we are for the first time presented with a really comprehensive account of the natives of Australia; and by their timely publication under the auspices of the Victorian ...

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 ...

BMC Evolutionary Biology [strike]has a new paper which will be up soon (not on site)[/strike], Reconstructing Indian-Australian phylogenetic link. ScienceDaily has a preview: Dr Raghavendra Rao worked ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aborigines lived mostly as hunter-gatherers for tens of thousands of years before British colonial settlers landed at what is now Sydney in 1788. Today, there are about 450,000 Aborigines in Australia ...

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 ...

20 April 2005 Australian aborigines, the native people of Australia that lived by hunting and gathering in the remote outback are currently in Dubai to participate in the weeklong Second Festival of ...

MELBOURNE, July 14 (Reuters) - Australian Aborigines rallied in peaceful marches around the country on Saturday to protest against the government's intervention in local communities in the outback ...

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 ...