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 ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study of fossil pollen trapped in ancient mud.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article may contain images of deceased people. It contains mentions of the Stolen Generations, and policies using outdated and ...

Historian Stephen Gapps’ latest book, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, describes a coordinated Aboriginal military front across more than 20 different Aboriginal nations and ...

The proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament was widely supported by Indigenous voters, but had raised fears and hopes that were both overblown. Eva Nargoodah at home in Jimbalakudunj, Australia, with ...

New perspectives on the relationship between Indigenous Australians and animals they shared their environment with are emerging from the discovery of a dingo buried nearly 1,000 years ago in western ...

Australians singing their national anthem will now have to adjust for a minor, but symbolic, change to its lyrics. As part of an effort to include the tens of thousands of years of Indigenous history ...

The discovery of the oldest pottery ever found in Australia on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast is challenging the idea that Aboriginal Australian communities were unaware of pottery ...

Amid growing recognition of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world, a new partnership is set to elevate the global presence of Indigenous works. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., ...