Aboriginal woman’s death in custody in NT prompts calls for independent investigation

Police say woman’s death in Tennant Creek appeared to be the result of a medical episode, but Aboriginal legal service says internal investigation is ‘not sufficient’ ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal community courts will return in the NT after legislation passes parliament. Here's how they will work

Legislation passed by the Northern Territory parliament this week will pave the way for Aboriginal elders and leaders to have a say on what sentences First Nations offenders should receive. The ...

New Guineans and Aboriginal Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...
CNN

Lowitja O’Donoghue, trailblazer for indigenous Australian rights, dead at 91

Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. O’Donoghue, who passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday in Adelaide ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal Victorians from Stolen Generations to receive $100,000 as part of reparations package

Aboriginal Victorians removed from their families in the state before 1977 will be able to access payments of $100,000 from the state government as part of a landmark reparation package for Stolen ...

Good Intentions Gone Bad

The lands at issue in Cowichan are situated in the delta of the Fraser River. About 35 kilometers upstream lies the city of ...
The Conversation

Aboriginal fire management – part of the solution to destructive bushfires

David Bowman receives funding from the Bushfire Natural Hazard CRC, Australian Research Council, the Tasmanian Fire Service and theTerrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. As destructive bushfires ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Contemporary Aboriginal Art

In 1972, with assistance from an art teacher, 11 men formed a cooperative called Papunya Tula Artists. By 1974 the group had grown to 40. Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson An art movement’s ...
Couriermail

How early Australians treated Aboriginal people

Some argue that Aboriginal people should be grateful about the modernisation of the country and all the benefits this has brought them. That they should just get on with things and let the past go.
Nature

Mitochondrial DNA diversity of present-day Aboriginal Australians and implications for human evolution in Oceania

Aboriginal Australians are one of the more poorly studied populations from the standpoint of human evolution and genetic diversity. Thus, to investigate their genetic diversity, the possible date of ...
BBC

Aboriginal Australians 'still suffering effects of colonial past'

The death of George Floyd in the US has also hit home in Australia. It has brought anger about mass incarceration and police brutality back to the fore in this country. In the past three decades, more ...
CNN

Aboriginal leaders gather at Uluru to decide how to change Australia

When Australia’s founding constitution was agreed to in 1900, it completely failed to mention the original inhabitants of the country – the nation’s Aboriginal people. Over a hundred years later, up ...