Australia’s government has bought the copyright to the Aboriginal flag, making it freely available for public use and ending a longstanding battle over the design. In a deal worth more than 20 million ...

At a temporary Aboriginal gathering space dubbed Marri Madung Butbut — or “Many Brave Hearts” in the language of Sydney’s original inhabitants, the Gadigal people — eight performers emerged through ...

In the state of Victoria, Australia has seen its first ever treaty with Aboriginal people signed and formalized as law. It follows nearly a decade of consultation and negotiation between officials and ...

Amanda Harris receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Pacific Development and Conservation Trust and the Australian Research Data Commons Laura Case does not work for, consult, own ...

(Sydney) – Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...

Archaeologists have unearthed 82 pieces of pottery likely made by Aboriginal Australians between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, long before Europeans arrived on the continent. The find has the potential ...

The Chauvels cast Aboriginal actors in their film. Not so the producers of Journey Out of Darkness (1967), an inept affair made by an American TV director that premiered in Canberra in the presence of ...

An artist, educator and writer specializing in Australian indigenous art will be the next director of the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, a search committee announced ...

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an exhibition at the Asia Society. By Arthur Lubow The Aboriginal art of northeast ...

Here are the surnames of some ministers in the new South Wales Labor government, Australia’s longest-serving current administration: Iemma, Costa, Sartor, Della Bosca, Roozendaal, Orkopoulos, ...

Aboriginal people are over-represented in Australia's criminal system. David Dungay Jr. was forcibly removed from his Long Bay jail cell in Sydney in December 2015 because he wouldn't stop eating ...

Death has a sound in Yuendumu, a red-dirt town in the middle of Australia’s sparsely populated Northern Territory. The haunting ritual wailing, to mark the death of a loved one, permeates Samara ...