Aboriginals had the continent to themselves for 50,000 years. Today they make up less than 3 percent of the population, and ...

The Yolngu people have been unwavering in their fight for their country and their culture. The Yirrkala bark petitions tell that story Three years ago, at her home in the small town of Derby in ...

The ABC has launched an Indigenous language news service trial in the Northern Territory. The daily service will provide radio news bulletins in two Aboriginal languages, Warlpiri and Yolngu Matha.

An Aboriginal community leader who spent decades bridging the gap in the Indigenous justice and education systems is being remembered for his impact in the NT. A well-known Yolngu Elder is being ...

The acting Police Commissioner has committed to more than doubling the number of First Nations cops in the Territory, setting a target to 30 per cent representation. The Yolngu woman from Galiwin’ku ...

It’s November 2023, the time of year the Top End calls the build-up, AKA the sweaty season, and Bunhangura, in northeast Arnhem Land, is overflowing with mourners. Guyula, 65, speaks in Djambarrpuyngu ...

Galiwin'ku, Elcho Island, the Yolngu people’s customary land. The lead singer of Yothu Yindi, a Yolngu band, died yesterday, aged 56. Flickr/boobook48 The lead singer of the band Yothu Yindi died ...

The Arnhem Land artist received the $100,000 Telstra Art Award for her monumental woven sculpture, which references the connections between Yolngu people and the people of modern-day Indonesia. It’s ...

The winners of the country's longest-running First Nations art awards have been announced, with a senior Yolngu artist taking out the grand prize. The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Under a palm tree in Bawaka, north-east Arnhem Land, Yolngu entrepreneur Laklak Burarrwanga sits at the centre of a new movement to open up Indigenous homelands to tourism. Ms Burarrwanga's Yolngu ...

Lorrpu, Botj and Milika are three Yolngu (Aboriginal) teenagers who once shared a childhood dream of becoming great hunters together. But as teenagers they changed: Botj did bad things which landed ...

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an exhibition at the Asia Society. By Arthur Lubow The Aboriginal art of northeast ...