Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal community courts will return in the NT after legislation passes parliament. Here's how they will work

Legislation passed by the Northern Territory parliament this week will pave the way for Aboriginal elders and leaders to have a say on what sentences First Nations offenders should receive. The ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Aboriginal Victorians from Stolen Generations to receive $100,000 as part of reparations package

Aboriginal Victorians removed from their families in the state before 1977 will be able to access payments of $100,000 from the state government as part of a landmark reparation package for Stolen ...
CNN

Lowitja O’Donoghue, trailblazer for indigenous Australian rights, dead at 91

Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. O’Donoghue, who passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday in Adelaide ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Aboriginal People Are Locked Out of Australia’s Water Market

One of the driest places in the world also has one of the most sophisticated water-trading markets. Australia manages to combine extreme water scarcity with billions of dollars in trading turnover.
The Globe and Mail

Why is Canada ignoring the health of aboriginal peoples?

Professor Jeff Reading is the interim director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the University of Toronto; Bernie Farber works on First Nations issues with Dr. Michael Dan, ...
Couriermail

How early Australians treated Aboriginal people

Some argue that Aboriginal people should be grateful about the modernisation of the country and all the benefits this has brought them. That they should just get on with things and let the past go.

Good Intentions Gone Bad

The lands at issue in Cowichan are situated in the delta of the Fraser River. About 35 kilometers upstream lies the city of ...
Nature

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

Figure 1: Aboriginal Australian and Papuan samples used in this study, as well as archaeological sites and human remains dated to ~40 kya or older in southern Sunda and Sahul. To date, only three ...
The Conversation

‘Just ask us, come and see us’. Aboriginal young people in the Northern Territory must be listened to, not punished

Holly Doel-Mackaway received funding from Macquarie University to undertake the research reported in this article. Bhiamie Williamson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...
Nature

Mitochondrial DNA diversity of present-day Aboriginal Australians and implications for human evolution in Oceania

Aboriginal Australians are one of the more poorly studied populations from the standpoint of human evolution and genetic diversity. Thus, to investigate their genetic diversity, the possible date of ...
The Globe and Mail

Widening education gap leaves aboriginal Canadians further behind

The number of aboriginal people with university degrees has nearly doubled over the past decade, yet the gap in education levels between aboriginal and other Canadians has only grown wider. Closing ...