Indigenous Culture

A species of Australian native plant related to kangaroo paws has been named after the humble rotary clothesline.

Twenty years ago, Cape Barren Island was handed back to its traditional owners. Today's children are proof of the life-changing power of that act.

A strife-torn Aboriginal corporation crucial to heritage approvals across Perth wins a contract to oversee cultural services on Rottnest Island, Wadjemup, one of Western Australia's premier tourism destinations.

After thousands of hours of recording, the elusive night parrot has been captured on camera drinking from a water hole for the first time, reshaping researchers' understanding of their needs. 

Five years after Rio Tinto destroyed a 47,000-year-old sacred rock shelter to expand an iron ore mine, an ambitious rebuild is underway drawing inspiration all the way from France.

Five years after Rio Tinto destroyed a 47,000-year-old sacred rock shelter to expand an iron ore mine, an ambitious rebuild is underway drawing inspiration all the way from France.

The truth behind claims of "white hands on black art" will be tested in the SA Supreme Court as one of the country's best-known Aboriginal art groups sues Rupert Murdoch's national masthead for defamation.

Hundreds of treaties exist between First Nations people and governments around the world. One state in Australia just became one of them.

An Aboriginal elder has slammed Andrew Forrest as a state tribunal into plans to alter a WA river hears critical evidence.

Forty years ago, the Wittenoom asbestos disaster changed Peter Gordon's life. Now he has come back to finish what he started.

Astronomers have discovered the famous Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster, which is featured in many Aboriginal songlines, is surrounded by a huge, hidden stellar family.

A lawyer for billionaire Andrew Forrest questions an anthropologist's credibility over his opposition to plans to change a sacred Pilbara waterway.

The Alice Springs team has been rewarded for its culture of listening to reduce high suicide rates in the Northern Territory.

With sacred springs and water holes in northern WA drying up, the WA government decides to relocate where it is extracting groundwater from. 

Every week ABC Behind the News presenter Jack Evans designs a T-shirt featuring a word from his mob's language and shares it with the show's audience. 

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest's controversial plan to alter the natural river system on his large outback WA cattle station is under renewed legal scrutiny.

Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.

Rock climbers are publicly urging others to ignore Parks Victoria's requests to avoid culturally significant routes at Mount Arapiles Dyurrite in western Victoria. 

WA Governor Chris Dawson has delivered an apology to the descendants of people murdered in the Pinjarra Massacre, 191 years on from one of the state's most brutal attacks on Aboriginal people.

Gathering on sacred land where their ancestors were slain in one of the most brutal attacks on Aboriginal people in Western Australia, Traditional Owners hear the word it took almost 200 years to say — "sorry".