>CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Aborigines in white body paint danced and sang traditional songs in Australia’s national Parliament on Tuesday in a historic ceremony many hoped would mark a new era of ...

Winners for this year’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner Excellence Awards have been ...

A grandfather and aboriginal elder traveled nearly 2,000 miles to perform a special dance with his granddaughter, who graduated college. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp., Gali ...

Every inch of Australia is written in song. Songs track lines along the continent, with every jutting rock or bowing tree ...

The practice of finger-cutting among the Dani tribe of Indonesia is indeed real, albeit increasingly rare. When grief strikes the Dani people of Papua, Indonesia, women express their sorrow through a ...

Aboriginal elders who perform traditional burials on country could be jailed for two years under the bill, the land council has warned. The Burial and Cremation Bill is set to replace the 67-year-old ...

In the state of Victoria, Australia has seen its first ever treaty with Aboriginal people signed and formalized as law. It follows nearly a decade of consultation and negotiation between officials and ...

Imagine you're in southeast Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura—population 133. You're in a dusty ...