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 ...

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 ...

Historians estimate more than 1,000 Aboriginal Australians served in the first world war. After the war, many expressed their disappointment that “fighting for our King and country” had not resulted ...

NORTHERN TERRITORY – As our van lumbers down Litchfield Park Road, the grassy expanse stirs. Where visitors see empty bushland, Tess Atie, a Marrathiyel woman who has spent most of her life in this ...

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 ...

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While the life expectancy of Indigenous people in remote communities has improved, Aboriginal health groups are telling the ...

The annual “Closing the Gap” report released last month and covering 2025 provides another stark picture of the deepening social crisis confronting Aboriginal workers and youth. While the Albanese ...

Metaphors of cooking and eating are a firm favourite among writers on multiculturalism. No comment on cultural contact seems complete without the proverbial “melting pot”. This metaphor tends to imply ...

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