Aborigines held an historic ceremony in Australia's national Parliament on Tuesday that many hoped would mark a new era of race relations in the country. With faces painted white and with a digeridoo ...

Aborigines playing didgeridoos and smeared with white body paint overturned hundreds of years of British tradition in Australia on Tuesday by taking part in the official opening of the nation's new ...

The definition of Aboriginal has shifted from race to association. The problem with this nicety is that the essence ...

Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in the Outback, schools held assemblies and giant TV screens went up in state capitals as Australians watched a live broadcast of their government Wednesday ...

The Australian aboriginal community Mutitjulu lies in the shadow of Uluru, one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, but it could not be more different from the polished walkways and ...

Aborigines lived mostly as hunter-gatherers for tens of thousands of years before British colonial settlers landed at what is now Sydney in 1788. Today, there are about 450,000 Aborigines in Australia ...

Australia entered 2008 as one of the richest nations in the world. Far from fearing recession like Europe and America, the “Lucky Country” recently burst into its 17th year of uninterrupted economic ...

A study has pulled together clues that Australian Aborigines may have been the world's first astronomers, according to a press report.? Ray Norris, an astronomer for Australia's science agency, the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Aboriginal leaders agreed on Friday to seek treaties with national and state governments as preferable to symbolic acknowledgement of the indigenous minority in Australia ...