The aboriginal cultural show doesn't meet expectations, ... Modern aborigines star in Tjapukai cultural show at Cairns, Australia. Updated: Nov. 25, 2009, 8:56 a.m.

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Genetic research indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Researchers have found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that are exclusively shared by ...

But in the past decade, modern aboriginal Australians have been pushing a cultural revival. The possum skin cloak, with its thorough mapping of different aboriginal groups’ languages, ...

He said recent DNA evidence has shown that modern Aboriginal Australians are descended from the first modern humans that walked out of Africa nearly 75,000 years ago.

Aboriginal Australians therefore descend directly from the earliest modern explorers, people who migrated into Asia before finally reaching Australia about 50,000 years ago.

The first genome analysis of an Aborigine reveals that these early Australians took part in the first human migration out of Africa. They were the first to arrive in Asia some 70,000 years ago ...

The results showed that both the Aborigines and Melanesians share the genetic features that have been linked to the exodus of modern humans from Africa 50,000 years ago.

Until the white men arrived, Yuwali and her extended family had no concept of the modern world. They had no idea that Australia had been colonised for nearly 200 years.

The Art Gallery of NSW's new wing has four levels, a 6-star rating for sustainable design, and a swathe of major new artworks — but its plans for an Aboriginal name have stalled.

Its next stop will be the bridge in Tate Modern’s Turbine hall on 20 May (until 18 June). “I’m going to be there for the duration,” Bell tells The Art Newspaper .