The known timeline of the Aboriginal occupation of South Australia's Riverland region has been vastly extended by new research led by Flinders University in collaboration with the River Murray and ...

Prominent Tasmania-based historian Henry Reynolds says there will always be "history wars". The work of Professor Reynolds and other historians specialising in Aboriginal history became the subject of ...

At Mount Dispersion, on the banks of the Murray River, the scars of an atrocity co-exist with pride — and hope for the future. At least seven Aboriginal people were killed there, as they tried to flee ...

Aboriginal legends could offer a vast untapped record of natural history, including meteorite strikes, stretching back thousands of years, according to new UNSW research. Dr Duane Hamacher from the ...

Professor Eleanor Bourke (left), chair of Yoo Rrook Justice Commission, the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, at the smoking ceremony at its ...

Historic hair samples collected from Aboriginal people show that following an initial migration 50,000 years ago, populations spread rapidly around the east and west coasts of Australia. Our research, ...

In 1989, Zhou Xiaoping was a 29-year-old Chinese artist travelling around Australia pursuing his passion for Aboriginal culture. He had explored the desert town of Alice Springs and the tropical ...

A controversial bestseller that described a flourishing, advanced Indigenous civilisation prior to colonisation has been “debunked” in a “damning” new book. Dark Emu, author Bruce Pascoe’s smash hit ...

Bruce Pascoe’s book “Dark Emu” sparked a reconsideration of Australian history. Now he hopes to use his writing to revive Aboriginal community. By Damien Cave See more of our coverage in your search ...

Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara artist Isaiah Firebrace flew to Canberra on Wednesday to hand-deliver a petition to the federal government calling for Aboriginal history to be taught in schools around the ...