SYDNEY (AP) — Thousands of Australians protested the anniversary of British colonization of their country with large crowds Friday urging for Australia Day to be moved and for a day of mourning on the ...

A study examines rodent extinction following European settlement of Australia. Since European colonization of Australia in 1788, the continent has recorded 34 terrestrial species lost to extinction, ...

The backlash was swift after John Howard made the remarks ahead of a referendum on Aboriginal representation in the government. By Natasha Frost A former prime minister of Australia has stirred a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australians celebrated and protested across the country on Sunday as Australia Day drew attention to political differences over Indigenous rights months out from a federal ...

Aboriginal Australian culture is regarded as humanity’s oldest continuous living culture. Existing scientific literature estimated their arrival on the continent of Australia at 65,000 years ago as a ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge claims of a 65,000-year-old human arrival in Sahul—the ancient paleocontinent ...

Sydney, Jun 14 (efe_epa).Sydney, Jun 14 (efe_epa). — British colonization of Australia at the end of the 18th century was an invasion of aboriginal land, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Tuesday. ...