Indigenous peoples Archives

Possums welcomed back to Country in Red Centre

Conservationists and Traditional Owners have celebrated the return of the common brushtail possum to Central Australia, where the species is locally extinct.

History & Culture

Cue the music

Groundbreaking musician and composer Aaron Wyatt is making up for lost time.

History & Culture

Discovering what it means to be the oldest living culture in the world

We often hear that Aboriginal peoples have been in Australia for 65,000 years, “the oldest living cultures in the world”. But what does this mean, given all living peoples on Earth have an ancestry that goes back into the mists of time?

History & Culture

Understanding Indigenous DNA

Groundbreaking research has identified that levels of genetic diversity among Indigenous Australians may be among the highest in the world.

History & Culture

Awakening a sleeping language

Thomas Watson was devastated when he discovered his traditional language, Gangulu, was no longer spoken, but his grief gave way to searching, a process that led thousands of kilometres around the world to an attic in Sweden.

History & Culture

Looking back at Australia’s largest political demonstration

In an unprecedented, and largely spontaneous, sign of national solidarity for reconciliation and support for First Nations people, more than 250,000 people walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 28 May 2000.

History & Culture

Indigenous rock-art sites ‘chosen’ for vantage

Researchers have discovered internationally significant rock-art sites in Arnhem Land were far from random and instead ‘chosen’ for the critical vantage points they provided.