Emily Kam Kngwarray has been recognised as "one of the world's leading artists" after becoming the first Australian whose ...

The experimental filmmaker Sky Hopinka's documentary "Powwow People" is already one of the most essential documentaries of the year.

A new study has revealed shocking information about modern humans, dramatically rewriting the continent’s history.

On our first night in Cairns, we headed for the for the evening show. After that, it was a day on the Great Barrier Reef, a day in the Daintree rain forest and Port Douglas, another day on the reef, ...

In the 1970s two exciting discoveries of human fossil remains focused world attention on Australia Evidence implied that two very different types of people lived in Australia long before the emergence ...

SYDNEY — All of Australia's Aborigines, regardless of birthplace or nationality, are automatically Australian citizens, the nation's highest court ruled Tuesday in a decision that undercut an ...

The skeletal remains of 15 Aborigines are being returned home for reburial, nearly 90 years after a Swedish zoologist smuggled them out of Australia for display in a Stockholm museum. The Museum of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aborigines are 16 times more likely in Western Australia to be victims of homicide and 6.5 times more likely to report crimes against the ...