For 60 years, until 1970, the Australian government took mixed-race Aboriginal children from their families and put them in dormitories or industrial schools, claiming it was protecting them.

Unlike Mr Chi, Professor Peter Yu, vice-president of a group known as First Nations of Australian National University, is very aware of his mixed Aboriginal Chinese heritage. “My father is a ...

Indigenous Australians and Greeks. Born in South Australia to a Greek father and an Aboriginal mother, she learned that in life you must have strength, above all.

When colonizing Australia, the English encountered Indigenous people speaking many languages. A makeshift pidgin emerged for use between them and the white people, using English words mixed with ...

Near his burial place, paintings adorn the rocks and depict different Aboriginal peoples wielding shields and boomerangs, creating a fuller picture of pre-colonial Australia and its peoples.

(Sydney) – Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

Fifty years ago, four men travelled to Australia's capital and set up a beach umbrella with a sign marked "Aboriginal embassy". Their protest grew rapidly to thrust Aboriginal activism into wider ...