Interesting Engineering on MSN

Unusual 19th-century boomerang reveals Australia’s indigenous history, claims study

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

Early humans in Australia were fossil hunters

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

A Giant Kangaroo Bone Is Challenging the Idea That Humans Wiped Out Australia’s Megafauna

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...
Green Left Weekly

History of Indigenous resistance

January 26 is the first Invasion Day (Australia Day) since the federal Labor government made the official apology recognising the wrongs suffered by the Stolen Generations - the Aboriginal children ...
Australian Geographic

Uluṟu handback remembered, 40 years on

Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park was returned to its Traditional Owners 40 years ago.
Inverse

Aboriginal Researchers Reveal An Untold Story of Australia’s “Fairy Circles”

What are “fairy circles”? They are polka dots of bare earth, regularly scattered across arid grasslands. Scientists first described fairy circles in Namibia in the 1970s, which sparked a global debate ...

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tony Abbott on Australia’s past and the opposition’s future

The former Liberal prime minister says he wrote a new history book ‘to help contemporary Australians think better of ...
Labroots

Pottery Discovery Upends Aboriginal History Assumptions

Humans have been painting on rocks and in caves for tens of thousands of years. Some of the oldest rock art made by people could be as much as 73,000 years old, while the oldest cave art has been ...

Former prime minister Tony Abbott visits old school, says Australians shouldn’t be 'guilt ridden' in the telling of our history

Tony Abbott has visited his former school to speak with history students while promoting his new book and Sky News ...

When Indigenous voices fall silent, the democracy air has already gone bad

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

After Bruising Vote, Indigenous Australians Say ‘Reconciliation Is Dead’

The rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is likely to lead to an irreversible shift in the nation’s relationship with its first peoples. By Yan Zhuang Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...