Australia’s first Indigenous prime minister is still at university, quietly committed to social equity and “not driven by the past”, according to Ken Wyatt, the first Aboriginal person to be appointed ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Admirers of Australia’s Indigenous artists have been pushing for a serious, large-scale presentation of their work at a major U.S.

An exhibition of nearly 200 works at Washington’s National Gallery of Art offers an overly broad survey of Australian indigenous art from the late 19th century to today.

A new book by a University of Melbourne expert explores the complex relationship between Indigenous self-determination, ...

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CANBERRA, Australia — Advocates for constitutional change in Australia said they were devastated on Saturday by the defeat of a referendum that would have created an advocacy committee to offer advice ...

Accused allegedly threw a homemade bomb at a crowd which had gathered to protest Australia Day.

A day before Deborah Melville’s death in July 2007, the 12-year-old was visited by a Northern Territory child-protection worker at her foster home outside of Darwin, Australia. The caseworker noted ...

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous ...

Casuarina prison is a sprawling, concrete jungle on the southern outskirts of Perth, Western Australia (WA). It is a maximum-security, adult facility, home to people who may never leave its confines.