In 1948, Frank Setzler, the head curator of anthropology at the world’s largest museum and research complex, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, visited Arnhem Land as a member of a US-Australian scientific expedition. While excavating […]
The “little people” of Aboriginal folklore are small, hairy, ugly, strong and have a distinct odour, a Larrakia academic who has been studying them has found. Dr Curtis Roman, from the Charles Darwin University, has […]
Aboriginal women have a message for South African comedian Trevor Noah — we’ve got inner and outer beauty in spades. Noah, best known for hosting the satirical American news program The Daily Show on US […]
Traditional owners in Western Australia’s Kimberley have called on the WA government to work with them to protect the State’s national heritage-listed Fitzroy River. The newly-established Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council wants only sustainable, culturally and […]
Aboriginal Victorians are set to go to the polls early next year to elect a representative body to enter treaty talks with the State Government. In an election in which the voting age may be […]
Redfern will once again be the focus for the annual inner-city NAIDOC Family and Sports Day, part of NAIDOC Week national celebrations from July 8 to 15. The family and sports day on July 13 […]
Cooking and bush foods guru Jody Orcher will be one of the star attractions at a new mini-festival at the Sydney Opera House. The Ularai/Barkandji woman from Brewarrina in north-west New South Wales is renowned […]
A team of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars is working on the first Indigenous volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. The major undertaking will see about 100 biographies of prominent Indigenous Australians added […]
Precious Aboriginal artefacts estimated to be hundreds of years old have been returned to the traditional Budjiti owners in north-western New South Wales after having been used as garden ornaments. Budjiti elder Phil Eulo said […]
A life-size statue of the father of NAIDOC – Aboriginal activist and human rights advocate William Cooper – captures him doing what he was best known for: standing up for the wronged and persecuted. The […]
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES 2018
