Indigenous Culture

A remote West Australian town is reckoning with the future of its 140-year-old cemetery after officials admitted an access road was built over unmarked graves in 2021.

Theresa Napurrurla Ross was taught to read and write in her own language by her mother and followed in her footsteps. Half a century on, their legacy continues to change lives.

Gungarri man and Productivity Commissioner Selwyn Button calls for more accountability with only four Closing the Gap targets on track.

The leaseholders of Wave Hill Station have been fined for damaging relics of the Northern Territory's historic Walk Hill walk-off site, which sparked the Aboriginal land rights movement of the 1970s.

The federal Nationals candidate for Calare, Sam Farraway, has been criticised for falsely claiming the future of the Bathurst 1000 race at Mount Panorama-Wahluu is threatened by a First Nations land claim. 

As far north WA faces the worst coral bleaching event on record, traditional owners fear global warming will impact their food security and connection to country.

A lost thylacine — better known as a Tasmanian tiger — finds his people in this new homegrown animation led by Nakkiah Lui and Rhys Darby.

An Aboriginal elder says it is disgraceful an ancient cultural site on the Murray River was damaged during the summer holiday period. 

Scientists have bred two endangered skink populations to create a genetically superior lizard in an attempt to combat climate change.

Australia’s beach shacks are an architectural quirk of history. But as they slowly disappear from our coastlines, ‘shackies’ and historians argue we should be paying more attention to the hidden history of these emblems of summer.

The federal National Party is lobbying to reopen a sacred Indigenous site in northern New South Wales that closed during the pandemic.

In the latest What Sparks Art interview, musical powerhouse Lou Bennett speaks to ABC Arts about her incredible career so far, her upcoming Adelaide Festival show, and the sources of inspiration she finds in 'histories colliding and clashing'.

For generations, both the Yolŋu people from Australia's Northern Territory and Indigenous groups from Taiwan have maintained ancient cultures despite colonisation, with the shared experiences of the groups in focus as part of a new cross-cultural performance.

A former star surfer says Indigenous women are "severely under-represented" in the sport, but a free learn-to-surf program aims to change that.

These distillers are adding native ingredients like river mint and green ants to create fresh mixed drinks.

The Liberal candidate for the Kimberley is criticised after describing break-ins at his business as "Welcome to Country".

The NSW environment minister says the purchase of Broughton Vale Station east of Broken Hill is a significant addition to the state's national parks portfolio.

Landowner Tony Maddox is fined $2,000 and ordered to pay costs after building a bridge on his property in contravention of the state's Aboriginal Heritage Act, despite claiming he had never heard of the legislation.

Artist and activist Mervyn Street has spent his life honouring his parents and their station life in the Kimberley in paintings and drawings.

Almost a century after it was taken from Gamilaraay country in New South Wales, a sacred tree known as a dhulu is returned by a Swiss museum.