Tag: Aboriginal Australians

Historic hand-back as 160,000 hectares of globally significant World Heritage land is returned to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Peoples.

Research study led by top university finds more than half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults are at high risk if they get Covid.

Scientists use new technique of dating the mud wasp nests around the WA painting to determine it is approximately 17,300 years old.

The best player of the 1868 Aboriginal team, his induction is intended to represent the entire team and the place they have in cricket history.

Despite the Juukan Gorge debacle, most mining companies continue to have no formal strategy to engage with Aboriginal communities on key issues.

Corporate Australia cannot ignore the link between its social licence to operate and responsible engagement, inquiry hears.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: For advocates of the name “Invasion Day”, it is more important that Australia was invaded from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective. We do not need European law to validate that perspective, especially not law from the 18th and 19th centuries that is tainted by colonialism ...

OPINION & ANALYSIS: In his first major policy address, Ken Wyatt noted how previous governments have failed Indigenous Australians with a ‘top-down, command and control approach.’

SPECIAL FEATURE: Despite fighting and dying for Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders still weren’t considered citizens upon their return from the war.

The very first image of Aboriginal Australians is testament to their resistance by refusal, from very first contact with English to take up their burdens.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has stalled. It’s time to take a new approach.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Have Aboriginal people been in Australia for some 50,000 years or as long as 65,000 years? Either way, they have effectively been on their country as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: If the promised “refresh” of Closing the Gap does not put resources – and the power to direct them – into Indigenous hands, the prospects for closing socioeconomic gaps are likely to remain distant.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: January 26 marks one of the greatest expropriations in modern history, which took place at Sydney Cove. Why do so many Australians want to commemorate an act of egregious injustice?

Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Indigenous Australians are willing to negotiate. But are non-Indigenous Australians ready to enter into respectful negotiations? Or will they, once again, ignore the invitation?

Successes being achieved, but progress nationally is too slow, says new Closing The Gap report

A little Aboriginal girl was told she could not be her favourite Disney Princess since she's black.

Origins Festival of First Nations 2015 to feature Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Zugubal Dancers, and David Gulpilil film 'The Tracker'.

Various Aboriginal leaders and protesters have called for the repatriation of the British Museum’s collection of 6000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects.

VIDEO | Noel Pearson delivers rousing ‘this old man’ eulogy at Gough Whitlam memorial service.

Australian senator and former athletics star, Nova Peris, rejects claims she sought public funds to conduct an affair with fellow Olympian, Ato Bolton, after publication of explicit emails.

Tony Abbott criticises the negative impact that early British settlers had on Indigenous Australians.

Tony Abbott’s chief indigenous advisor has called the PM's reference to Australia being "unsettled" before British colonisation as "silly while Nova Peris has branded them as "highly offensive".

A representative of Aboriginal delegates expressed their delight in having the remains of an ancestor returned to Australia from Chicago's Field Museum in Chicago.

A new report looks at ways to better use funding for indigenous health, which could have economic and social spin-offs.

In Australian soaps such as Home and Away, Neighbours, Sons and Daughters, The Flying Doctors and Prisoner Aboriginal characters are notable by their absence.

INTERVIEW | On stage at the Barbican from the 11th February, the powerful one-man show Jack Charles v The Crown, sees Aboriginal actor and Australian legend Uncle Jack Charles sharing his extraordinary life story.

Former PM Kevin Rudd is to chair the National Apology Foundation, which he has established to honour the 2008 apology to Indigenous Australians.

INTERVIEW | Two years in the making, John Pilger's controversial new film Utopia reveals a shocking national secret behind the postcard image of the "lucky country". As it premiers in the UK, the award winning documentary filmmaker talks to Australian Times about the devastating inequalities suffered by the Aboriginal community.

Five of Australia’s most talented Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander creative practitioners have arrived in the UK to take part in the British Council’s annual ACCELERATE programme. High Commissioner Mike Rann welcomed them at a special event at the BT Tower.

INTERVIEW | Fiona Foley is raising awareness about the mistreatment, and plight of indigenous people in Australia through her controversial artworks, including Vexed a video presentation exploring the breakdown of traditional Aboriginal marriages, currently on display at EcoCentrix; Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts.

Doctors have expressed concerns over the increasing rates of Aboriginal people in remote indigenous communities contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

Soprano Deborah Cheetham, Australia’s only classically trained Australian Aboriginal opera singer, will perform in London as part of the Inside Out Festival, presenting excerpts from her opera Pecan Summer.

Ancient history and artistic expression combine in Origins 2013, a cultural festival of artists and performers with deep roots, coming together to share ideas about the past, present and future.

A Singapore-based mining company will be forced to pay $150,000 after being convicted of the damage and desecration of an Aboriginal sacred site. It is the first such conviction in Australian history.

An Australian film about a young indigenous boy defending his land against the threat of the mining industry is among a series of cutting edge movies screening as part of London's 2013 East End Film Festival.

Indigenous leaders have marked the sixth anniversary of the controversial 2007 government intervention in the Northern Territory by questioning the psychological repercussions of regulating the day-to-day management of Aboriginal communities.

Mr Yunupingu, the former Yothu Yindi lead singer, has died aged 56 at his home in the Northern Territory.

The ARIA-winning singer Dan Sultan has accused Australia of being a "fundamentally racist country" ahead of a series of protest concerts.

When a new commercial promoting Australian tourism was launched last month featuring the music of Dewayne Everettsmith, the question most were left asking was: "Who the bloody hell is he?"