A new genetic study has found Indigenous Australians travelled over two distinct routes, and 100 kilometres of open water, to ...

Governments are “flying blind” in some of their attempts to lift the health, education and employment status of Aboriginal ...

The arrival of modern humans in Australia around 60,000 years ago has long been shrouded in mystery and debate. Recent ...

Beginning in 2016 thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from hundreds of communities across Australia came together in regional dialogues culminating in a constitutional convention. The ...

When the first humans reached Australia 60,000 years ago, they walked into a land ruled by giant kangaroos, 10-meter snakes, hippo-sized wombats, and deadly predators like the marsupial lion. Cut off ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Two historic statues were damaged in Melbourne ahead of Australia Day celebrations on Sunday, with tens of thousands of people across the country joining protests in support of ...

Aboriginal Australian leaders ended a vow of silence Monday to condemn the collapse of an Indigenous rights referendum, denouncing the "shameful" majority who opposed the landmark proposal. Deep ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal Australian leaders are meeting at the sacred landmark of Uluru to decide how the country's first inhabitants, who date back about 50,000 years before British colonisers ...

In 1964, Frank Roberts travelled to Japan to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. Now his story is being told by his cousin in a ...

In 1938, when John Moriarty was born in the tiny hamlet of Borroloola, in Australia’s Northern Territory, he was not classified as an Australian citizen. In 1960, when he became the first indigenous ...