Four stars in the night sky have been formally recognised by their Australian Aboriginal names. The names include three from the Wardaman people of the Northern Territory and one from the Boorong ...

Australia’s Fraser Island is the latest destination to have its Aboriginal name restored. The world’s largest sand island, which is located off the coast of Queensland state about 250 km (155 miles) ...

SYDNEY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The sandstone rock shelters sitting on Tasmania's Mount Wellington were built by indigenous tribes thousands of years ago, but it was only in 2014 that the ...

In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian ...

The federal electorate of McMillan would be renamed ‘Bunjileene-Purrine’ if Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation and Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation’s nominated name to the ...

Assuming the ACT Electoral Commission isn't in the mood to go pop-culture and name the five new electorates after the Planeteers from Captain Planet, as one Canberran suggests, Aboriginal names are ...

MELBOURNE, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The north bank of Melbourne's Yarra River is dotted with a series of Aboriginal-made art installations. The eel-shaped winding paths, the metal shields ...