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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) - A "Healing Fund" and constitutional recognition of Aborigines, and a push for Australia to sever ties with Britain's monarchy, led ideas on Sunday from a summit of the country's ...

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 ...

Compelling and uncompromising, “Sweet Country” is anything but sweet. A bleak story presented with great style, it’s a finely made Australian western that demonstrates the malleability of that most ...

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. Wallerberdina, ...

Genetic research indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Researchers have found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that are exclusively shared by ...