Ultimatum issued on indigenous housing
STATE governments unable to deliver value for money in building houses in remote indigenous areas will face the prospect of losing future funding. The...
Australia
STATE governments unable to deliver value for money in building houses in remote indigenous areas will face the prospect of losing future funding. The...
Australia breached Aborigines’ rights: UN
Australia breached international obligations on human and indigenous rights by imposing radical restrictions on Aborigines during a crackdown on child...
Australia’s Aborigines request refugee status
A group of 4,000 Australian Aborigines asked the United Nations to grant them refugee status Wednesday, saying that government-imposed measures to cur...
Museum returns old Aboriginal skull to Australia
Little is known about the remains, thought to date back to the 19th century, which were returned to members of the Ngarrindjeri during a ceremony in L...
Lost Aboriginal language revived
The sounds of a lost language echo across a packed classroom in suburban Sydney as high school children help to revive an ancient part of Australia...
Australia backs indigenous rights
Australia has formally adopted the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The move reverses the policy of the previous govern...
Australia to charge royalty on art resales
Australia’s federal government has proposed a five per cent royalty on the resale of visual art to benefit the original artist who created the w...
Australia launches digital collection of rare aboriginal languages
A library in Sydney, Australia has launched a website that provides access to the earliest written records of rare aboriginal languages. The Indigenou...
Didgeridoo book upsets Aborigines
Aboriginal leaders in Australia have called for a book teaching girls how to play the didgeridoo to be scrapped. The Australian version of the Daring ...
Pope lauds apology to Aborigines
Speaking at his first public appearance in Sydney, he said it was a courageous move that had offered hope to other disadvantaged people around the wor...
