Australians speak more than 300 different languages, ... My earliest memories of Aboriginal sign language were from when I was about four years old," she said, via an Auslan interpreter.

Indigenous sign languages will be taught alongside Auslan in NSW schools by 2026 as statistics show 43 per cent of First Nations Australians older than seven have some form of hearing loss.

Starting from scratch: Aboriginal group reclaims lost language. With the help of a linguistics professor, Barngarla, which has not been spoken for 60 years, is being pieced together.

The mass death of Australian languages has proven to be the perfect laboratory for studying language decline and the effects it has had on Indigenous communities.

Australia’s first people—known as Aboriginal Australians—have lived on the continent for over 65,000 years.Diverse and culturally distinctive, they are represented by more than 250 distinct ...

The one word white Australians are told NOT to use when talking about First Nations people. The word 'Aborigine' can be offensive 'First Nations person' is now preferred ...

In a sign of the two lawmakers’ surging influence, the referendum is widely expected to fail. Many voters see their stance as a sign of deeper divisions within the Aboriginal community ...

Overall, her research involved 3880 Aboriginal Australians. It found those who walked regularly were less likely to be obese, as were those who ate fruit, those who lived with two or more children ...

After an effort to give Aboriginal Australians a modest voice to parliament was resoundingly rejected, many Indigenous peoples are mulling what they can do next.