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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Study finds Aboriginal adults caught with cannabis more likely to go to court

Legal advocates say new findings that Aboriginal adults are more likely to be charged after being caught with cannabis are "another example of police bias". Twelve per cent of Aboriginal adults found ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal sign languages have been used for thousands of years

Australians speak more than 300 different languages, and some of these languages are spoken using hand signs. Jennifer Green from the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne ...
Medscape

Will Australia’s Lung Cancer Screening Help the Indigenous?

Earlier this year, Australia rolled out its newest screening program in 20 years, but can it reach those most at risk?

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 ...
BBC

Why Aboriginal people are still dying in police custody

Aboriginal man David Dungay Jr died in a Sydney prison cell in 2015 after officers restrained him to stop him eating biscuits. During the struggle, he was pinned face-down by guards and jabbed with a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Conversation

What do Aboriginal Australians want from their aged care system? Community connection is number one

Tony Broe receives funding from NHMRC. He is Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neura, Randwick in Aboriginal Health and Ageing; Professor of Geriatric Medicine at UNSW; and member of the Aged ...
Business in VancouverOpinion

Rob Shaw: Aboriginal title cannot be used to restrict Canadian airspace, Ottawa says

The conflict, which occurred over the summer, grew to involve the federal and provincial governments, before Ottawa declared ...
The Independent

Aboriginal Australians 'have been genetically isolated for 50,000 years'

Aboriginal Australians have been genetically isolated from the rest of humanity for 50,000 years with no direct evidence that they had ever intermarried with South-East Asians about 4,000 years ago, ...