From the myth of Prester John to the character of Tarzan, the idea of a Western white person living among jungle natives has always been intriguing. Thus, the legend that emerged in mid-19th-century ...

More than a half million Aboriginals currently live in Australia, less than 3 percent of the population. Few have learned to perform an Aboriginal dance or hunt with a spear. Many anthropologists ...

Making peace with Australia’s past could be a boon for its international relations, as well as simply being the right thing to do.

The 2011 genome study indicated that Australian Aboriginals descend from the first humans to venture beyond Africa more than 60,000 years ago. The Aboriginal genome also revealed strong genetic ...

Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished ...

The tagline of the Accor Hotels is "Feel welcome" Global hotel chain Accor is investigating claims that staff at one of its Australian ... [a local term for aboriginals from outside the town ...

and aboriginals have been hunting them for thousands of years with no overall detrimental effect on the population. Early European settlers witnessing the splendor of Australia's waterways for the ...

Tantalizing glimpses into life and death in pre-colonial Australia are written on the bones of a skeleton found in New South Wales. 5 min read This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue ...

For some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, receiving an Australian of the Year award can be used to draw ...

Australia's High Court has said Aboriginal people hold a special status under the law so cannot be deported - even if they are not citizens. The ruling is being seen as a historic moment for the ...