In 1938, when John Moriarty was born in the tiny hamlet of Borroloola, in Australia’s Northern Territory, he was not classified as an Australian citizen. In 1960, when he became the first indigenous ...

Beginning in 2016 thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from hundreds of communities across Australia came together in regional dialogues culminating in a constitutional convention. The ...

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 ...

Jill Gallagher is a senior elder from the Gunditjmara nation, a spokeswoman for the Aboriginal community in the southeast Australian state of Victoria and a key advocate for the yes campaign and the ...

Two female Aboriginal lawmakers with very different political views are campaigning against the proposal to create an advisory body on Indigenous issues. By Natasha Frost Reporting from Hobart, ...

Editor’s note: In parts of indigenous Australia, the reproduction of photographs of the deceased may be restricted. Jack Charles’s family have given permission for the press to use his name and image.

CANBERRA, Australia — Australians voted in a referendum Saturday against enshrining in the nation’s constitution a mechanism for Indigenous people to advise Parliament on policies that affect their ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A pair of "ghost gum" trees in Australia's outback made famous in watercolors by Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack, shortly before ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...