Campers sleeping on unmarked graves: The dark history behind an island paradise

Rottnest Island, or Wadjemup, is famous for its beautiful beaches and cuddly quokkas. However, the isle has a dark history, and for 93 years was a prison for Aboriginal men and boys.
The Conversation

Ancient mud reveals Australia’s burning history over the past 130,000 years – and shows a way through our fiery future

Michela Mariani receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and is affiliated with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) and the Centre ...

“It’s Up to Us to Tell the Truth”: Warwick Thornton on Exploring Indigenous Trauma With Berlin-Premiering Outback Western ‘Wolfram’

The Aboriginal filmmaker drew on his own family history to tell the story of Indigenous children forced into labor in Australia’s tungsten mines in the 1930s.
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Australians are voting on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Here’s what you need to know

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians will ...
Hyperallergic

Is Australian Aboriginal Art Part of the African Diaspora?

Fiona Foley, "HHH" (2004). Courtesy of artist/Niagara Galleries. (via MoCADA.org) I just started reading Toure’s Post Blackness: What It means to be Black Now, which features a number of black artists ...
The Conversation

3 key moments in Indigenous political history Victorian school students didn’t learn about

Mati Keynes receives funding from the Australian Centre. Archie Thomas receives funding from the Australian Centre. Beth Marsden receives funding from the Australian Centre. Samara Hand receives ...
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Understanding the Aboriginal Creation Story: Singing the country

Every inch of Australia is written in song. Songs track lines along the continent, with every jutting rock or bowing tree being represented by a line or a verse. The cadence, the rhythm, and the ...
UVA Today

Australian Artist To Head UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

An artist, educator and writer specializing in Australian indigenous art will be the next director of the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, a search committee announced ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Australians decide against creating an Indigenous Voice to advise Parliament

CANBERRA, Australia >> Australians voted in a referendum today against enshrining in the nation’s constitution a mechanism for Indigenous people to advise Parliament on policies that affect their ...
The New York Times

After Bruising Vote, Indigenous Australians Say ‘Reconciliation Is Dead’

The rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is likely to lead to an irreversible shift in the nation’s relationship with its first peoples. By Yan Zhuang Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...
AOL

Indigenous Australian embraces King Charles at civil rights birthplace

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Britain's King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia's urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in ...