Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal heroes from early years of colonisation the focus of research project

A new research project at Ballarat's Federation University is collating stories of Aboriginal heroism during the early years of British occupation. Federation University is researching heroic acts by ...

When did people first arrive in Australasia? New archaeogenetics study dates it to 60,000 years ago

New research confirms humans first reached the Sahul super-continent by two different routes around 60,000 years ago.

New Brunswick appeal court rules Indigenous group can’t seek Aboriginal title over private land

Decision overturns lower-court ruling that would have allowed the Wolastoqey Nation to lay claim to privately owned ...
The Vancouver Sun on MSN

Will First Nations seek Aboriginal title to more privately held lands in B.C.?

In 2016, the Kwikwetlem First Nation filed a claim in B.C. Supreme Court for Aboriginal title to about five square kilometres ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

How Aboriginal culture can teach us how to live with less and tread more lightly

If you're looking to live more sustainably, ancient Aboriginal culture could give you some ideas for treading more lightly on the planet. Jamie Thomas comes from a timber industry town in Victoria's ...

NT’s domestic violence crisis continues to kill Aboriginal women, one year on from landmark inquest

The coronial findings, handed down by NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage on 25 November 2024, followed Australia’s largest-ever DFSV inquest, which examined the deaths of four Aboriginal women - Kumarn ...
The Conversation

Aboriginal fire management – part of the solution to destructive bushfires

David Bowman receives funding from the Bushfire Natural Hazard CRC, Australian Research Council, the Tasmanian Fire Service and theTerrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. As destructive bushfires ...

Bolt: No, you’re not Aboriginal unless you can prove it

Surely it’s time to demand proof before handing forests, race-based rights or even newspaper space to people claiming to be ...
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 ...
BBC

Aboriginal Australia's 'mind-blowing' struggle for a first treaty

Aboriginal elder Gary Murray says the process carries a risk of "symbolic genocide" Australia is the only Commonwealth country never to make a treaty with its indigenous peoples. Why has it proven so ...
Australian Geographic

A Guide to Aboriginal Astronomy

Aboriginal Australians are the world’s oldest astronomers. INDIGENOUS PEOPLE have passed down astronomical knowledge for generations. However little is known about this intimate understanding of the ...
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 ...