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Man's egg-eating habits drove giant Australian bird to extinction

Man's egg-eating habits drove giant Australian bird to extinction  - Some 50,000 years ago, Australia featured a giant flightless bird ... to place the fragments ages between 54,000 and 45,000 years old .

Aboriginal mother told to 'speak English'

Aboriginal mother told to 'speak English'  - AN indigenous woman talking to her toddler daughter in her native language in Adelaide on Tuesday was told: “It's Australia Day, we speak English in ...

Secret to Australia's gastronomy success

Secret to Australia's gastronomy success  - Add to that a small but very special and unique pantry of native Australian ingredients and you have the raw materials for a unique cuisine.” Shewry ...

Brisbane could rename historically racist Boundary streets

Brisbane could rename historically racist Boundary streets  - Mainstream Australia , unfortunately, has this tendency to just keep trying to ... "Unless there's a strong and clear call from local Aboriginal people to ...

Aboriginal experience surgically targeted at national psyche

Aboriginal experience surgically targeted at national psyche  - Stan says the Australian dream is rooted in racism. Social scientists agree with him – we're living a dream that distracts us from difficult truths.

Backlash as party-goers dress in blackface

Backlash as party-goers dress in blackface  - Two men have caused backlash after photos of them in blackface, dressed as Indigenous Australians , surfaced on social media. The two men, who ...

The Secret River offers lessons in living together

The Secret River offers lessons in living together  - How different a place would Australia be if the first white settlers had listened to and learned from the Indigenous custodians of the land, muses actor ...

Grant: 'The Australian Dream remains outside our grasp'

Grant: 'The Australian Dream remains outside our grasp'  - Stan Grant gave a speech about discrimination against Aboriginal people that many call a 'Martin Luther King moment for Australia '. The journalist ...