From 1850 until the 1960s, under Australia's various state protection laws, Aboriginal people were driven off their lands and gathered into specific missions, reserves and stations.

Why our kids should learn Aboriginal history Western Civilisation is an important part of our history and it has a strong presence in the curriculum. But the grand story of the First Australians ...

Students in a Tasmanian Aboriginal history lesson have drawings they made ripped up by the teacher as a metaphor for the impact of white colonisation.

Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia's Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea's surface ...

Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It ...

Joe is of Aboriginal and Chinese descent, and the fact the he exists at all is remarkable, given the history. Colonial Australia was not kind to the people living on the land they took over.

Whole-genome sequence data for 108 individuals representing 28 language groups across Australia and five language groups for Papua New Guinea suggests that Aboriginal Australians and Papuans ...

Growing up in an Indigenous Aboriginal family in Australia, nothing was scarier to horror director Jon Bell than the government. He recalls the “Stolen Generations,” a tragedy that Americans ...

SYDNEY — An 11-year-old boy charged with murder has come to epitomize Australia's great shame: the plight of its aboriginal citizens, who may be the most jailed people in the Western world.

Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia's Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea's surface ...