British colonisation of Australia, together with the effects climate change, is likely to have contributed to the recent catastrophic wildfires in southeast Australia, a new study has found. An ...

The backlash was swift after John Howard made the remarks ahead of a referendum on Aboriginal representation in the government. By Natasha Frost A former prime minister of Australia has stirred a ...

In fewer than 250 years, the ravages of colonisation have eroded the evolutionary splendour forged in this continent’s relative isolation. Australia has suffered a horrific demise of arguably the ...

In Mabo v Queensland Eddie Mabo challenged the doctrine that declared Australia “land belonging to no one.” This Tuesday on Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia Eddie Mabo and his fellow plaintiffs ...

Aboriginal Australian culture is regarded as humanity’s oldest continuous living culture. Existing scientific literature estimated their arrival on the continent of Australia at 65,000 years ago as a ...

An experiment to preserve the western swamp tortoise is the latest flash point in a debate over how far humans should go to protect nature as the world warms. By Yan Zhuang Photographs by Matthew ...