Just one generation ago Australian schoolkids were taught that Aboriginal people couldn't count beyond five, wandered the desert scavenging for food, had no civilisation, couldn't navigate and ...

The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and ...

Urban Aboriginal children in Australia are healthier than their counterparts in remote areas, new research has found. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Menzies School of Health ...

Channel millet, a native grass, possesses twelve chromosome copies, a trait linked to domestication. Mithaka people utilized ...

In an exciting development, researchers have, for the first time, pieced together the human genome from an Aboriginal Australian. The results re-interpret the prehistory of our species. In an exciting ...

Aboriginal people in southeast Australia burnt their land to stimulate the growth of plant tubers that formed half of their diet, according to new research. Gott says there is often a focus on ...

Wine researchers at the University of Adelaide are investigating the traditional practices of Australian Aboriginal people in producing fermented beverages and foods. Although referred to in early ...

IRMACS Presentation Studio, Applied Science Building 10900, The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus A one-day workshop co-organized by the SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples, the ...

Since they arrived in Australia in 1788, Europeans have gathered the remains of Aboriginal Australians for museum and research collections, digging up graves ranging from relatively recent in age to 1 ...