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 ...
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

DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to country

Members of the Stolen Generations may finally find a way back to their country, thanks to new research that reveals differences in Aboriginal DNA can be linked to specific geographic areas. Study ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Aboriginal People Are Locked Out of Australia’s Water Market

One of the driest places in the world also has one of the most sophisticated water-trading markets. Australia manages to combine extreme water scarcity with billions of dollars in trading turnover.
The Globe and Mail

Why is Canada ignoring the health of aboriginal peoples?

Professor Jeff Reading is the interim director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the University of Toronto; Bernie Farber works on First Nations issues with Dr. Michael Dan, ...
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.

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 ...
Nature

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

Figure 1: Aboriginal Australian and Papuan samples used in this study, as well as archaeological sites and human remains dated to ~40 kya or older in southern Sunda and Sahul. To date, only three ...
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 ...
The Conversation

Defining the Australian Aboriginal business

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In 2006 the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimated that there were around 7,000 self-employed ...
The Conversation

‘Just ask us, come and see us’. Aboriginal young people in the Northern Territory must be listened to, not punished

Holly Doel-Mackaway received funding from Macquarie University to undertake the research reported in this article. Bhiamie Williamson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...