A buried cave in Australia's Northern Territory has changed the story of Australia's first people. Archaeologists uncovered tools, pigments, and food remnants dating back more than 20,000 years, deep ...

One calls for Aboriginal Australians to be treated like any other Australian. The other stands against what she sees as their forced assimilation. They are hardly natural allies, but Jacinta ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was confident and composed when she appeared at Australia’s National Press Club to explain why she, a rising political star who is an Indigenous ...

The story of how Aboriginal Australians first arrived on the continent is one of the greatest journeys in human history. Long ...

Aboriginal Australians die, on average, eight years younger than others. Just over 3% of Australia’s 26m people, they fill more than a quarter of its prison cells.

On a date to be set, Australians will be asked whether the nation’s Indigenous peoples, which make up 3.2% of the population, should be recognized in the Constitution.

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government on Thursday released the wording of a referendum question that promises the nation's Indigenous population a greater say on policies that effect ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians will vote on Oct. 14 in a referendum that would enshrine in the nation’s constitution a mechanism for Indigenous people to advise Parliament on policies ...

Establishing an Indigenous Voice to parliament was put to a vote on October 14, 2023, as constitutional amendments in Australia must be decided by a referendum.

The report also stresses that Aboriginal Australians continue to face systemic injustice. "Today, incarceration rates of Indigenous Australians are not the same, life expectancy is not the same ...

Advocates for constitutional change in Australia said they were devastated by the defeat of a referendum that would have created a committee to offer advice on policies that affect Indigenous people.