Melissa Lucashenko is one of this country’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists. She is also a highly respected and loved ...

Taylor Coyne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our ...

First Nations kids aged 7-12 from Cunnamulla, a remote town in South West Queensland, around 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, have become first time ...

In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...

THE DEAD SEAGULL (142 pp.)—George Barker—Farrar, Sfraus & Young ($2.50). “What depth of shame do we lie in,” muses the hero of The Dead Seagull, “when we sink back on the plush cushions of our disgust ...

Despite decades of policy interventions, the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is declining against defined targets. And yet, health and well-being continue to be measured ...

Every inch of Australia is written in song. Songs track lines along the continent, with every jutting rock or bowing tree being represented by a line or a verse. The cadence, the rhythm, and the ...

The test includes 20 questions on Australian life, culture and history and was updated in 2020 to include a section on Indigenous affairs and a question on Welcome to Country ceremonies. But the ...