>CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Aborigines in white body paint danced and sang traditional songs in Australia’s national Parliament on Tuesday in a historic ceremony many hoped would mark a new era of ...

Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge University. The ...

We’re just keeping to our own place, we don’t have Welcome to Country, we don’t do that here and that’s it basically,” she ...

A council in North Queensland has confirmed that it has stopped the practice of Welcome to Country ceremonies as it works to formalise a policy to determine when they are appropriate to use.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians staged protest marches on Thursday demanding the date of Australia Day, Jan. 26, be changed as it celebrates the arrival of white settlement and the ...

First Nations South Australians say the harmful algal bloom impacting the state's coastline is a cultural emergency, as it ...

NPR's Tom Goldman reports on the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The event ceremony celebrated Australia's rich and strange history, with a lawnmower ballet, displays ...