Aboriginal people are over-represented in Australia's criminal system. David Dungay Jr. was forcibly removed from his Long Bay jail cell in Sydney in December 2015 because he wouldn't stop eating ...

Thousands rallied for Indigenous peoples' rights on Australia Day on Monday but one protest was interrupted when police found ...

Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. O’Donoghue, who passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday in Adelaide ...

These ten change-makers, including Jessie Street and Charles Perkins, are just some of the key Australians who prodded the ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A report has found that Australia has failed to close the gap between the life expectancies of its Aboriginal and non-indigenous people and the difference is widening. The ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will look for new ways to lift Indigenous living standards after voters soundly rejected a proposal to create a new advocacy committee, the deputy prime minister ...

The proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament was widely supported by Indigenous voters, but had raised fears and hopes that were both overblown. Eva Nargoodah at home in Jimbalakudunj, Australia, with ...

For Willi Lempert, the story began when he studied abroad for a semester in Australia as an undergraduate back in 2006. He was there to pursue ethnographic fieldwork about Aboriginal communities and ...

In October, Australians voted to reject a plan that would have given more political rights to First Nations people in the country – and a “Voice” in the constitution. This Voice would have served as ...