A groundbreaking Australian play has come to New York for a few weeks. It’s called "The Visitors," and it tells an important piece of Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective. A council of tribal leaders is called in when a fleet of ships appears in what is now Sydney Harbor in 1788.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Here in the remote outback of Australia's Northern Territory is Areyonga – one of the indigenous communities the country's upcoming referendum is supposed to give a voice to.

Thousands rallied for Indigenous peoples' rights on Australia Day on Monday but one protest was interrupted when police found a suspicious device containing screws and ball bearings.

In 1938, when John Moriarty was born in the tiny hamlet of Borroloola, in Australia’s Northern Territory, he was not classified as an Australian citizen. In 1960, when he became the first indigenous Australian to be selected for the national football ...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was confident and composed when she appeared at Australia’s National Press Club to explain why she, a rising political star who is an Indigenous Australian, opposed a referendum to expand Indigenous rights. “I think we need to ...

There has been a “fundamental shift” in Australian architecture in recent years, and it’s helping make buildings better.

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, Australia One calls for Aboriginal Australians to be treated ...

Studies have shown that Aboriginal Australians living in remote areas of the country are disproportionately affected by dementia, with rates approximately double those of non-Indigenous people. A new study shows that Aboriginal Australians living in urban ...

Australia Day commemorates the day Britain established New South Wales as a penal colony, with the arrival in Sydney of ships bringing colonists and convicts.