Australia's first treaty with its Indigenous peoples will be signed in the state of Victoria this month. It will give First Nations more say on laws and policy affecting them.

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has signalled further reforms will be needed to meet the challenges of a rapidly ageing population, after the New Aged Care Act came into effect.

Australia is racing to a population of 30 million far sooner than anyone anticipated – and it’s changing the country ...

Annette Hlawa photographed these four Aboriginal men and two boys at Mount Molloy, Australia, before 1907. (Ethnological Museum of the State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage via ...

Indigenous Australians may as well be living in the different country from the rest of the population. Every year on January 26, Australia Day, huge numbers of people gather to celebrate living in one ...

Commuters walk in the Central Business District at lunch time in Sydney SYDNEY (Reuters) - The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia's population projections in a challenge for ...

In a protected forest of eastern Australia, one of the country's "rarest mammals" wandered past a trail camera, its pouch ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has ...