CNN

‘It belongs to everyone’: Australian government buys rights to Aboriginal flag for $14 million

Australia’s government has bought the copyright to the Aboriginal flag, making it freely available for public use and ending a longstanding battle over the design. In a deal worth more than 20 million ...

Boxing Day Test more than just cricket for descendant of Australia's First XI Aboriginal team

They travelled on horse and cart and were smuggled on a boat for three months to England, the story of the First XI ...
National Catholic Register

From Australia to the Vatican: ‘Aboriginal Mass’ Seeks Official Recognition

Two Indigenous elders, Maureen Yanawana and Madeleine Jadai, presented the Mass to the bishops and shared its impact on their community. An aboriginal woman holds a cross prior to the opening mass of ...
The Conversation

The more you know: people with better understanding of Australia’s colonial history more likely to support moving Australia Day

Olivia Evans receives funding from Australian Research Council. Iain Walker has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Medical Research Future Fund. Kate Reynolds receives ...
Reuters

Australia buys copyright to Aboriginal flag, making it free to fly

SYDNEY, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The Australian government said on Tuesday it had acquired copyright to the Aboriginal flag so it can be freely used, resolving a commercial dispute that had restricted ...
CNN

Lowitja O’Donoghue, trailblazer for indigenous Australian rights, dead at 91

Lowitja O’Donoghue, one of the most respected and influential Aboriginal activists in Australian history, has died at age 91. O’Donoghue, who passed away surrounded by her family on Sunday in Adelaide ...
Reuters

Thousands march demanding change to Australia Day, citing aboriginal injustices

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians staged protest marches on Thursday demanding the date of Australia Day, Jan. 26, be changed as it celebrates the arrival of white settlement and the ...
Wall Street Journal

Australia Should Be Celebrated Every Day—Except One

Tom Switzer’s op-ed “Annoy the Woke Left, Celebrate Australia Day” (Jan. 26) is profoundly disappointing. Unlike various other national days around the world, ours in Australia has never been a cause ...
Asia Society

Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

Yäma Munuŋgirritj, ca. 1920–1987. Yarrwiḏi-Gumatj clan. Gurruŋawuy, 1961. Natural pigments on bark. H. 28 x W. 15 in. (71.1 x 38.1 cm). Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of ...
UVA Today

Australian Artist To Head UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

An artist, educator and writer specializing in Australian indigenous art will be the next director of the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, a search committee announced ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Oldest Known Aboriginal Pottery Discovered in Australia

Archaeologists have unearthed 82 pieces of pottery likely made by Aboriginal Australians between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, long before Europeans arrived on the continent. The find has the potential ...