Opinion

‘Sit down, talk with Indigenous Australians’: Wyatt’s message to Hanson after ‘primitive’ comments

The former Indigenous affairs minister said Pauline Hanson should educate herself about the role of Aboriginal labour in rural Australia before ahead of her speech at an upcoming WA Pastoralists and ...

First Australians

Aboriginals had the continent to themselves for 50,000 years. Today they make up less than 3 percent of the population, and ...
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Glaring pay gap costing Indigenous Australians billions

Indigenous employees earn around 16 per cent less per hour than the average Australian worker, a landmark national study ...

Australian court rejects activist's bid to prosecute Britain's King Charles for genocide

Three Australian appellate judges have rejected an activist's landmark bid to prosecute Britain's King Charles III over the ...

More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research

Content warning: This article discusses mass death, epidemics, frontier violence, and the structural violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. More than two million ...
The Diplomat

How Australia Failed Its Indigenous Communities, Again

The opposition Coalition and conservative media argued that the Voice would bring about a racial divide in the country. But it is already here, in clear view. Two statues in front of the “sovereignty” ...

Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation

Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

Australia's Indigenous Population Was 7 Times Larger Than Estimated, Study Finds

(chameleonseye/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus) Cultural warning: This article discusses the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including through disease and frontier violence ...

Indigenous leaders condemn Pauline Hanson for 'primitive race' remarks on Indigenous Australians

Politicians have swiftly condemned Pauline Hanson's remarks about Indigenous Australians, labelling them "vile", "divisive" and "derogatory".
The Economist

Aboriginal Australians may at last be given a say in their own affairs

Beginning in 2016 thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from hundreds of communities across Australia came together in regional dialogues culminating in a constitutional convention. The ...
The Conversation

Indigenous Australians were the world’s first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk

I’m a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist. When I look at the night sky, I don’t just see stars. Instead, I see an ancient knowledge system that ...
nytimes.com

Indigenous Australians and the Women’s World Cup: A fight for self-determination

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 ...