Some convicts in Australia escaped and found shelter, solidarity, and even family among the Indigenous groups they'd been ...

Two female Aboriginal lawmakers with very different political views are campaigning against the proposal to create an advisory body on Indigenous issues. By Natasha Frost Reporting from Hobart, ...

Aboriginal theories about the creation of the Uluru rock formation vary and are rarely shared with outsiders, but the Anangu people are clear about its hallowed place in their heritage. It’s where the ...

When the sprinter Cathy Freeman celebrated her gold medal at the Olympics with a dual display of aboriginal and Australian flags last month, the gesture echoed throughout Australia in ways that ...

A 19th-century wangim or boomerang has revealed how sophisticated the First Peoples of Australia were as engineers, and how ...

There is a gap in Australian political attention, media coverage and academic scholarly literature about Indigenous policy ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years, longer than previously thought, roaming the area alongside giant megafauna, scientists said in a finding that sheds fresh light on ...

Formed more than 500 million years ago, this land—home to the oldest living culture in the world—tells an ancient story.

MOUNT DRUITT, Australia -- As a girl, Mari Melito Russell felt out of place. She was darker than the other children at school, she felt more comfortable in the forest than her suburban home and she ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in the Outback, schools held assemblies and giant TV screens went up in state capitals today as Australians watched a live national ...

If a determined group of indigenous people get their way, the world’s newest country won’t be in Africa or the Balkans but on the eastern periphery of Australia’s outback. A bleak, foreboding, ...