Indigenous TikTok star 'Bush Legend' is actually AI-generated, leading to accusations of 'digital blackface'

As AI-generated images and videos become more common, Indigenous people are increasingly concerned about digital forms of ...
CNN

Lowitja O’Donoghue, trailblazer for indigenous Australian rights, dead at 91

Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. O’Donoghue, who passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday in Adelaide ...
The New York Times

Should Aboriginal Australians Have a ‘Voice’ in Parliament? These Two Say No.

Two female Aboriginal lawmakers with very different political views are campaigning against the proposal to create an advisory body on Indigenous issues. By Natasha Frost Reporting from Hobart, ...
The Conversation

DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to country

Historic hair samples collected from Aboriginal people show that following an initial migration 50,000 years ago, populations spread rapidly around the east and west coasts of Australia. Our research, ...
CNN

Linda Burney: Diversifying Australia’s political system

Linda Burney remembers her childhood all too well. In those days, she says she was invisible to the Australian government and its people. Aboriginals did not have the same rights as other Australians, ...
Nature

Mitochondrial DNA diversity of present-day Aboriginal Australians and implications for human evolution in Oceania

Aboriginal Australians are one of the more poorly studied populations from the standpoint of human evolution and genetic diversity. Thus, to investigate their genetic diversity, the possible date of ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Indigenous lawyer and human rights activist Paul Coe farewelled in Cowra

A leader of the Aboriginal civil rights movement has been remembered for his pioneering work and his quest for justice. Wiradjuri Elder, lawyer and activist Paul Coe died last month aged 76. He played ...
Time

How George Floyd Is Sparking New Awareness in Australia of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

After Wayne Fella Morrison’s death in detention in 2016, his sibling Latoya Aroha Rule organized rallies to call for justice for him and the hundreds of other Aboriginal people who have died in ...
Time

COVID-19 Reaches Australia’s Remote Aboriginal Communities—Highlighting a Perilously Slow Vaccine Rollout

It’s not easy to get to Goodooga. The tiny Australian town is about a nine hour drive from Sydney, and miles from the closest two-lane highway. But that didn’t stop COVID-19 from reaching the ...
The Conversation

WA’s new Aboriginal Heritage Act keeps mining interests ahead of the culture and wishes of Traditional Owners

Hannah McGlade is a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. Only a year after the 46,000 year-old sacred Aboriginal site Juukan Gorge was destroyed by Rio Tinto, the West ...
The New York Times

Reducing Fire, and Cutting Carbon Emissions, the Aboriginal Way

As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention. By Thomas Fuller Photographs and Video ...