More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that ...
Death has a sound in Yuendumu, a red-dirt town in the middle of Australia’s sparsely populated Northern Territory. The haunting ritual wailing, to mark the death of a loved one, permeates Samara ...
At a temporary Aboriginal gathering space dubbed Marri Madung Butbut — or “Many Brave Hearts” in the language of Sydney’s original inhabitants, the Gadigal people — eight performers emerged through ...
Aboriginal people are over-represented in Australia's criminal system. David Dungay Jr. was forcibly removed from his Long Bay jail cell in Sydney in December 2015 because he wouldn't stop eating ...
Almost exactly a year ago, walking through the Seattle Art Museum with my uncle, I stopped cold in front of a piece of art called “Munurru,” or “Rough,” by Aboriginal Australian artist Galuma Maymuru.
More than 150 years ago, an Australian tour to England captured the attention of Britons. By Natasha Frost The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by ...
More than 395,000 acres from four of Australia's national parks was returned to the Aboriginal Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a "historic" agreement, officials announced Wednesday. Among the land is ...
They could be the oldest population of humans living outside of Africa—yet Australia has still never made a treaty with Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Australians are all related to a common group ...
DNA in hair samples collected from Aboriginal people across Australia in the early to mid-1900s has revealed that populations have been continuously present in the same regions for up to 50,000 years ...
Laura Rademaker received funding from the Northern Territory History Grants Scheme, Australian Research Theology Foundation and Cushwa Centre. Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With ...
Celeste Rodriguez Louro receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Google, including for the research in this article. Ben Hutchinson is employed by Google. Glenys Dale Collard receives ...