How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia

Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the ...
The Conversation

The more you know: people with better understanding of Australia’s colonial history more likely to support moving Australia Day

There have been calls to change the date of Australia Day/Invasion Day since as far back as 1938. January 26 marks the day in 1788 when the First Fleet landed in Australia to establish the colony of ...
insider.si.edu

Aboriginal Australia / produced in co-operation by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory -- Aboriginal people of South Australia -- Aboriginal people of Victoria -- Aboriginal people of New South Wales -- Aboriginal people of Tasmania -- Rock ...
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Understanding the Aboriginal Creation Story: Singing the country

Australian Aboriginals represent the longest continuously existing peoples on earth. As such, the myths of creation and the ancient carvings explaining early animism are understood just as easily by ...
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How Victoria's treaty with Aboriginal Australians could pave the way for the rest of the country

An Australian-first statewide treaty offers a template for other governments to take lessons and implement their own, but an expert warns more work needs to happen before they get to that point.
The Conversation

Ancient mud reveals Australia’s burning history over the past 130,000 years – and shows a way through our fiery future

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study of fossil pollen trapped in ancient mud.
The New York Times

After Bruising Vote, Indigenous Australians Say ‘Reconciliation Is Dead’

The rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is likely to lead to an irreversible shift in the nation’s relationship with its first peoples. By Yan Zhuang Reporting from Sydney, Australia 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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Did she betray Indigenous Australians or protect them from victimization?

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was confident and composed when she appeared at Australia’s National Press Club to explain why she, a rising political star who is an Indigenous ...