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 ...

Cathy Freeman thrilled Australians when she won the women's 400m gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, wearing a skin-tight ...

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.

Former minister helped develop Australia’s first Aboriginal education policy in the 1980s and brings decades of expertise to embattled university ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese choked up Thursday as he announced the terms of a referendum that would lead to a profound constitutional change: the creation of a new representative body ...

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 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its vast and remote northern coastline amid an influx of illegal fishing boats that have also ...

An Aboriginal senator was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for King Charles III and his wife, Camila, in Australia on Monday, after yelling that he'd "committed genocide against our people" ...

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 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Britain's King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia's urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in ...

Two female Aboriginal lawmakers with very different political views are campaigning against the proposal to create an advisory body on Indigenous issues. By Natasha Frost Reporting from Hobart, ...

The Aboriginal filmmaker drew on his own family history to tell the story of Indigenous children forced into labor in Australia’s tungsten mines in the 1930s.