The skull of an Aboriginal man who is thought to have been killed by colonizers in the early 19th century has been returned for burial in Tasmania from a British university. The remains of the ...

A city council in Australia has voted to remove a statue of William Crowther, a former premier of the state of Tasmania, who decapitated the body of an Aboriginal man. The statue’s removal would be ...

Researchers have for the first time sequenced the genome of a man who was an Aboriginal Australian. They have shown that modern day Aboriginal Australians are the direct descendents of the first ...

More than a thousand workers and young people took part in rallies across Australia’s major cities last week, protesting the brutal police killing of Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Indigenous man with ...

Western Australian state coroner Alastair Hope has described as a “disgrace” the death of 46-year-old Aboriginal elder Mr Ward from the remote Warburton Aboriginal Community, located 1,540 kilometres ...

For first time researchers isolated DNA from a lock of Aboriginal hair and are using it to learn about the genetics of the first Australians. University of Copenhagen In the 1920s, an Aboriginal man ...

Using a genetic blueprint contained in a nearly century-old lock of hair from an Aboriginal Australian man, scientists have found evidence the Aborigines are descendants of an early wave of people who ...

En route from Sydney to Perth, Australia, in the early 1920s, British ethnologist Alfred Cort Haddon acquired a tuft of human hair from a young Aboriginal man. He added it to his sizeable collection ...

An Aboriginal man has lost his legal bid to access the government pension earlier than other Australians, in a case that’s been closely watched by the country’s pensions industry. Wakka Wakka man ...