British colonisation of Australia, together with the effects climate change, is likely to have contributed to the recent catastrophic wildfires in southeast Australia, a new study has found. An ...

The colonisation of Australia was brutal and bloody, but many stories of the frontier have been hidden or denied. This series tells some of them and asks, are we ready for truth telling?

The backlash was swift after John Howard made the remarks ahead of a referendum on Aboriginal representation in the government. By Natasha Frost A former prime minister of Australia has stirred a ...

A study examines rodent extinction following European settlement of Australia. Since European colonization of Australia in 1788, the continent has recorded 34 terrestrial species lost to extinction, ...

When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity and duration of ...

A sweeping, character-driven tale of survival, healing, and the voices colonialism tried to silence. “Healing in silence: After brutality, Jimmy is cared for by Ngarra, a Munarrakalai elder, while ...

Dingoes are no ordinary dogs. They trace their roots back to an ancient Asian lineage and made their way to Australia more than 3,500 years ago. Since then, they’ve become integrated into Australian ...