Family of Indigenous man who died in custody launch legal action over decision not to charge police

Kumanjayi White died after being restrained by plain-clothes police in the lolly aisle of an Alice Springs supermarket ...
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British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians

It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling ...

Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research

We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months ...
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Aboriginal spiritual leaders performed 'magic, healing, cursing' rituals in this Australian cave for 25,000 years, new research finds

For thousands of years, members of the GunaiKurnai Aboriginal community gathered grasses from the landscape. They brought ...
The Economist

Aboriginal Australians may at last be given a say in their own affairs

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 ...
The New York Times

Indigenous Australians and the Women’s World Cup: A fight for self-determination

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 ...

In 1789, one mysterious outbreak changed Australia's history; scientists may have solved it

In 1789, a horrific outbreak devastated Indigenous Australians around Sydney Harbor. Up to 70% of local First Nations people died. For over 200 years, the cause remained a mystery. Now, scientists ...
Time

Australia’s Indigenous Peoples Could Finally Gain Formal Representation in Parliament

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The Conversation

Indigenous Australians want a seat at the table when it comes to conservation. Here’s how we might get there

Globally, many Indigenous people want to help protect their traditional lands and waters, drawing on knowledge stretching back millenia. Indigenous people have an obligation to look after species and ...
Nature

Why hepatitis B hits Aboriginal Australians especially hard

In the late 1960s, US physician Baruch Blumberg discovered a hitherto unknown protein in the blood of an Australian Aboriginal person. Not knowing what the protein was, he dubbed it the ‘Australia ...
NPR

A historic rainforest and other lands have been returned to Indigenous Australians

Some of Australia's world famous national parks have been returned to the hands of Indigenous owners after a deal was negotiated with the government. The deal signed last month between members of the ...

British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians, study...

It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling ...