A new genetic study has found Indigenous Australians travelled over two distinct routes, and 100 kilometres of open water, to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians will ...
AUSTRALIANS WERE united when they last voted in a referendum on indigenous rights in 1967. Over 90% agreed to remove a clause in their constitution that had long excluded Aboriginal people from ...
Australia's state of Victoria has passed the country's first treaty with Indigenous peoples, a landmark act of recognition long denied to the country's first inhabitants. Cheers and applause rang ...
Current citizenship laws have a narrow concept of nationhood and fail to acknowledge Indigenous ways of understanding ...
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 ...