Tag: Indigenous 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.

Researchers find first inhabitants probably used ‘superhighways’ to navigate and thrive in the hash environments of the early mega-continent.

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

New master plan is to guide $276-million rejuvenation that includes improved co-operation with Traditional Owners and upgraded infrastructure.

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.

Internal appointment surprises many observers, who believed Rio Tinto would give the job to an outsider in an effort to start with a clean slate.

Closing the Gap deal sets 16 new targets aimed at improving the lives of Indigenous Australians in several key areas.

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.

Trevor Noah is a comedian used to being in the firing line, but an old joke about Indigenous Australian women has come back to haunt him.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The dubious politics of the Games and the gratuitous fawning over Australia’s place in the “Commonwealth” is only part of the broader scheme of the reasons for hosting the games.

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: We must change the date of Australia Day again if we want to achieve a national day that unifies all Australians.

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?

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Dr G Yunupingu did not need to die; he was killed by a system that abandoned him, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

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

Incredible new research from remote Flinders cave puts human habitation of Australia's interior back 10,000 earlier than thought and offers evidence that man co-existed with megafauna.

Malcolm Turnbull wells up when discussing Indigenous Australian culture and experiences with Stan Grant during interview at The Lodge.

Where does the legend of the Australian cricketer’s ‘Devil’s number 87 come from? Are there any other peculiarly Australia superstitions?

Minister of Indigenous Affairs is pushing to limit the sales of Vegemite, saying it only leads to misery.

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.

Prince Harry snapped pictures with residents of the small bush community of Wuggubun before continuing on his way with the Australian Army.

Tony Abbott has been well and truly lambasted for calling living in remote communities a "lifestyle choice". But nothing quite tops the grilling he's received on Twitter from angry Australian voters.

Angry and offended Australians lash out at Australia’s PM for saying the country was nothing more than a couple of bushes prior to colonization.

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.

The prime minister says he would like to return to Arnhem Land, after send-off to Mid-East deployment, to fulfil his promise indigenous community.

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.

Following an online furore where Aldi were accused of racism, the supermarket chain has apologised and removed the “Australia Est 1788” T-shirt range from stores.

Gay marriage advocates are putting on a brave face, describing a high court ruling to quash ACT same sex marriage laws a "temporary defeat".

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.

The Australia: Shifting Sands film program at the British Film Institute’s London Southbank centre this September explores the emergence of Indigenous filmmaking and the idea of 'landscape as character'.

Lilly Brown has completed a Masters of Philosophy in Politics from Cambridge University, becoming the first indigenous Australian to graduate from Cambridge.

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.

Australia: Shifting Sands launches at the British Film Institute’s London Southbank centre in September, exploring the story of Indigenous Australia through the medium of Indigenous filmaking.