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Australia’s indigenous population may have been 2.22 million in 1788 before falling 93% by 1861

A new modelling study puts the Indigenous population of Australia at a median of 2.22 million people in 1788 and estimates ...

More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research

Content warning: This article discusses mass death, epidemics, frontier violence, and the structural violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. More than two million ...
BIOENGINEER

Indigenous-led six-domain framework reveals how Aboriginal health services prescribe social wellbeing

For more than fifty years, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, known across Australia as ACCHOs, have ...
nytimes.com

Indigenous Australians and the Women’s World Cup: A fight for self-determination

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 ...
The Economist

Aboriginal Australians may at last be given a say in their own affairs

Beginning in 2016 thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from hundreds of communities across Australia came together in regional dialogues culminating in a constitutional convention. The ...

Australian gov't to establish first dedicated commissioner for Indigenous aged care

The Australian government will permanently establish a dedicated commissioner to oversee aged care for the Indigenous population under new laws.
Time

Australia Will Hold a Referendum to Recognize Indigenous Peoples. Meet the Activist Behind the Vote

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Yahoo

Australia's Indigenous Population Was 7 Times Larger Than Estimated, Study Finds

It's difficult to comprehend the scale of what happened to Australia's Indigenous population when Britain's First Fleet invaded in 1788. One reason for that, in the simplest terms, is we never knew ...
Phys.org

Indigenous Australians were the world's first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk

I'm a proud Yorta Yorta and Barapa Barapa man, an Indigenous astronomer and a trainee ecologist. When I look at the night sky, I don't just see stars. Instead, I see an ancient knowledge system that ...
Hyperallergic

Is Australian Aboriginal Art Part of the African Diaspora?

Fiona Foley, "HHH" (2004). Courtesy of artist/Niagara Galleries. (via MoCADA.org) I just started reading Toure’s Post Blackness: What It means to be Black Now, which features a number of black artists ...
nytimes.com

After Bruising Vote, Indigenous Australians Say ‘Reconciliation Is Dead’

The rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is likely to lead to an irreversible shift in the nation’s relationship with its first peoples. By Yan Zhuang Reporting from Sydney, Australia The ...
Spiked

Let Aboriginal Australians speak for themselves

Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. For a government that was obsessed with giving indigenous people a ‘Voice’, Australian ministers haven’t been too successful at actually ...