Evidence identifies ancient Aboriginal mining in the Riverland

Flinders University researchers, in partnership with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, have found evidence ...
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How a Colonial Ban on Aboriginal Fire Erased a Marsupial Acrobat

Aboriginal fire management was practiced in Australia for tens of thousands of years. It kept animal habitats protected and ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

How can Aboriginal knowledge expand our understanding of the past?

Aboriginal people have lived with megafauna for more than 30,000 years. Unfortunately, there's limited physical evidence showing that Aboriginal people and megafauna interacted. For some time, ...
Daily Mail on MSN

Peak union body calls for Australia Day date change and renewed Indigenous Voice model

Australia's largest union body has reignited the country's fiercest culture war - backing a Voice model and calling for the ...
Opinion

Almost 20 years after the NT intervention, governments are making the same mistakes – and failing Aboriginal children

We have clear evidence that community-controlled family and children’s services are trusted and used. When they are administered by non-Aboriginal bureaucrats, they fail ...
The Conversation

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must be at the centre, not the margins, of LGBTQIA+ plans and policies

During Sydney World Pride the federal government committed to a ten-year action plan for LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing. This included A$26 million in health research. In the announcement, the minister ...
Wired

Geneticists Trace an Australian Migration with Artifacts

A handprint, Mylar slides, a box of “cosmic crayons” from the early 20th century—these are some of the things tucked in a back room of the South Australia Museum, relics of expeditions into ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Space for Aboriginal recognition at Hobart's proposed stadium shrinks because of cricket pitches and a shed

An Aboriginal reconciliation and truth-telling park was once proposed as the centrepiece of development at Macquarie Point, but when a stadium emerged, its location and scale changed. It has now ...

NSW Aboriginal Land Council halts Closing the Gap participation over land rights fears

The peak body for Aboriginal land rights in NSW has suspended its involvement in key government forums, warning a proposed ...
The Conversation

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population has increased, but the census lacks detail in other facets of Indigenous lives

The census counted 812,728 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on census night, making up 3.2% of the total people counted. That’s up from 649,171 in the 2016 census, an increase of over 25%.
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 ...
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 ...