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

Professor Eleanor Bourke (left), chair of Yoo Rrook Justice Commission, the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, at the smoking ceremony at its ...

More than 1,000 Aboriginal Australians served in WWI – but unlike white soldiers, they weren’t feted as heroes. They ...

As a preview to the Sydney Olympic Games last September, The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story about the great issue it said was dividing the Australian nation, the treatment of its ...

TNC’s March 2003 issue featured Keith Windschuttle’s Rabbit-Proof Fence: a true story, which took on the premise of Phillip Noyce’s film–that administrative policy in Western Australia from the 1930s ...

What killed the Tasmanian Aborigines? When British colonists arrived in 1803, the island’s indigenous people numbered a few thousand. Thirty years later, about 100 remained. Most historians blame ...

The known timeline of the Aboriginal occupation of South Australia's Riverland region has been vastly extended by new research. Radiocarbon dating of shell middens - remnants of meals eaten long ago - ...

As we approach the dreaded date of January 26, a pervasive question is floating around among the people in my social circle. Though phrased in different ways, most people seem to be wondering, “What ...

Hidden on the edge of a cliff in Australia's Blue Mountains, tucked away in the woods, a wallaby has been painstakingly carved into rock. It’s ancient, estimated to be at least 7,000 years old, and ...

Go to Australia, but set your sights North. Keep going past the city lights, past the oddly common giant fruit statuary on the side of the road, keep going until it’s so red around you that it will ...