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Aboriginal Artefacts are being returned to Australia

A museum in the United States has returned more than 100 cultural heritage items to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... View article...

Pilbara Aboriginal leaders meet to discuss local issues

First Nations leaders in Western Australia's north are meeting to discuss action on key social, economic, and political goals for communities in ... View article...

The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children

Much like the US and Canada, Australia has a history of removing Aboriginal children from their families. These youth became known as the Stolen ... View article...

Unique Graduation Parade

Aboriginal soldiers have served important roles defending Australia as far back as there has been an Australian Army, particularly in the north ... View article...

Rio Tinto and Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation to develop solar farm

Australia-based miner Rio Tinto has announced that it has agreed with Australia-based Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation (NAC) to develop an 80MW ... View article...

MIL-OSI Australia: Chief Aboriginal Health Advisor role created in Department of Health

The Tasmanian Government understands the importance of ensuring our hospitals and health services are culturally respectful and safe for Aboriginal  ... View article...

How Aboriginal musicians enhanced and maintained community in 20th century Australia

... Aboriginal people adapting the European violin to fit within ongoing cultural practices. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised ... View article...

Indigenous songwriting initiative helps strengthen endangered Aboriginal languages

An Indigenous songwriting initiative is helping preserve and strengthen Aboriginal culture and languages in a remote part of Western Australia. View article...

Rio Tinto signs Aboriginal agreements for two solar farms in Australia's Northern Territory

The solar farms will be developed in Gumatj and Rirratjingu country, both Aboriginal communities, on Rio Tinto leases. This is following ... View article...

Families told missing loved ones had 'gone walkabout'

Australia is not a safe place for Aboriginal women and children who are often criminalised or not taken seriously when they report violence or go ... View article...

Boost for Aboriginal cultural heritage projects in Western Australia

Seven not-for-profit Aboriginal organisations are set to benefit from funding for 11 projects which protect significant Aboriginal heritage sites ... View article...

Government's 'revamped' Indigenous cultural precinct to be built in Acton

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) building in Acton sits beside the National Museum of Australia. View article...

NAAJA board knew of chair Hugh Woodbury's domestic assault of pregnant partner

The board of Australia's largest Aboriginal legal service knowingly appointed a chair who pleaded guilty to a horrific domestic assault against ... View article...

Aboriginal children 'unnecessarily' removed from families and communities in SA, report finds

South Australia's child protection system has been described as 'institutionally racist' and 'abhorrent' in a report by the states Aboriginal  ... View article...

How an Aboriginal woman fought a coal company and won

In 2019, Australia was on the cusp of approving a new coal mine on traditional Wirdi land in Queensland that would have extracted approximately 40 ... View article...

Significant and tough decision': WA govt scraps Aboriginal heritage laws

Western Australia Premier Roger Cook says the Aboriginal heritage laws will not move forward as they failed to maintain community consensus. View article...

Criminal Sudanese migrant who 'identifies as Aboriginal' allowed to stay in Australia

His rap sheet also includes breaches of apprehended violence orders, stalking, and an assault on an Aboriginal woman. Facing deportation after his ... View article...

Without Govt support, future uncertain for schools with Indigenous boarding students

Independent Schools Australia (ISA) has warned that large numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students attending boarding schools are ... View article...

Seabourn to honor Aboriginal people in Australia for ship naming

Representatives from the Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation will welcome the Seabourn Pursuit at Ngula Jar Island on the Uunguu Coast and ... View article...

UN alarmed at number of Indigenous kids in care system

Too many Aboriginal kids are coming into contact with the criminal justice system and being removed from their families in Western Australia, ... View article...

Spears taken 254 years ago finally returned to Indigenous people in Australia

... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Stephen Smith, and Noeleen Timbery of La Perouse ... View article...

Cambridge college returns 18th Century Aboriginal spears

Four spears taken from an Aboriginal community by James Cook and Joseph Banks during their first contact with Australia are being repatriated. View article...

Aboriginal spears snatched by British in 1770 to return to Australia

Four spears taken from Australia by a British explorer more than 250 years ago will be returned by Cambridge University to ... View article...

'Very totemic and very Aboriginal': Australia's entry at Venice Biennale is a family tree going ...

... Aboriginal deaths. Among them are the redacted coronial reports of the 557 Aboriginal people who have died in police and prison custody since the ... View article...

Discovery of pottery rewrites Aboriginal history

The discovery of the oldest pottery ever found in Australia on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast is challenging the idea that Aboriginal  ... View article...