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

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 ...

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 ...

Free in-person family history information sessions will be held in the East Kimberley this SeptemberAttendees can learn about Aboriginal family ...

Hidden on the edge of a cliff in Australia's Blue Mountains, tucked away in the woods, a wallaby has been painstakingly carved into rock. It’s ancient, estimated to be at least 7,000 years old, and ...

Western Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2021 is set to become law, replacing the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. The Bill will be read tonight for the third and final time in Western ...

As we approach the dreaded date of January 26, a pervasive question is floating around among the people in my social circle. Though phrased in different ways, most people seem to be wondering, “What ...

The known timeline of the Aboriginal occupation of South Australia's Riverland region has been vastly extended by new research. Radiocarbon dating of shell middens - remnants of meals eaten long ago - ...

Research published this week by Nature has confirmed Australia’s aboriginal people are the Earth’s most ancient civilization. “A Genomic History of Aboriginal Australia” is a world-first genomic study ...

Go to Australia, but set your sights North. Keep going past the city lights, past the oddly common giant fruit statuary on the side of the road, keep going until it’s so red around you that it will ...