The local Aboriginal people told stories and painted images of a massacre of their ancestors in the early 20th century, but there was no other evidence that the incident took place. Until now.
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Wooredy and his second wife Truganini set off into the Tasmanian wilderness with settler George Robinson in 1830, on a “conciliatory” mission to find other original Tasmanians. Their stories bear witness to a psychological and cultural transition without parallel in modern colonialism.
George Hamilton published An Appeal for the Horse in 1866, a defence of animal welfare well ahead of its time. However, his compassion for Aboriginal people was conspicuously lacking.
Beauty brand Dove caused controversy with an ad seemingly showing a black woman turning white after using its body lotion. While Dove removed the ad, it played into the racist history of skin whitening.
A Fremantle monument to three white explorers was revised in 1994 to acknowledge the violence committed against Indigenous owners. As Australia struggles to reconcile its racist past, perhaps this monument shows a way forward.
A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago.
Indigenous peoples have very little power when it comes to education policy. Goals, targets and strategies are instead set by the government.
The National Gallery of Australia’s Third National Indigenous Art Triennial presents a passionate well-considered argument for an enduring Aboriginal culture.
Part of the land inhabited by some of the early Australians is now submerged, but details of their life is now revealed in an excavation on an island off the continent’s north-west coast.
Aboriginal people stayed settled in places across Australia for 50,000 years until Europeans arrived, showing a strong connection with the land.
What are we to make of ‘Aboriginalia’: bric-a-brac, tiles, ornaments and artworks - once hugely popular - depicting caricatures of Indigenous people? What if they are collected now in a knowing, ironic way?
In the 1840s, the eel traps of Budj Bim were described as the work of ‘civilized men’. But it took another 135 years for more appreciative European eyes to examine the complexity of western Victoria’s Aboriginal fishery.
The marking of our national day has long been fraught, and this year is no exception.
Noel Pearson has accused the ABC of racism in dwelling on indigenous alienation. But many advances in the status of Aboriginal Australians have been prompted by revealing ill-treatment, which is why Ms Dhu’s family want footage of her last hours made public.
Archaeologists found thousands of objects in a remote Australian cave which shows Aborigines made it inland some 10,000 years earlier than first thought. So what did they find?
The lock hospitals inflicted incalculable traumas on Aboriginal people, wrenching them away from families and country.
New DNA research working with Indigenous Australians is answering many of the questions about when and where the First Australians emerged many thousands of years ago.
Australia’s Indigenous people had many methods for counting, and they didn’t use just numbers.
There is plenty of evidence to show Australia’s Indigenous people had ways of counting big numbers, yet the myth persists they couldn’t count more than a handful of things. Why?
Research first published in 2001 has been used to question of whether Aboriginal People were the First Australians. So why not re-test those results with improved techniques and equipment?
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Sean Ulm est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Michael Bird est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
JCU Distinguished Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University
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Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
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Research scientist, Griffith University
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ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Griffith University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
