Among the traditional beliefs of the Aboriginal people who have inhabited Australia’s Northern Territory for at least 40,000 years, there is the particularly haunting notion that their ancestors sang ...

Scientist Mick O'Leary bragged to worried Tiwi Islanders how he had stopped a massive Woodside Energy project by finding ancient proof of Aboriginal songlines. Now he wanted to help the Islanders use ...

Protesters took a letter to federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek on October 21, demanding she intervene to save the Murujuga rock art from being destroyed by the Perdaman fertiliser plant in ...

Night sky culture Specific stars and constellations are used by some Aboriginal language groups to help them remember key waypoints along a route, detailed oral histories reveal. The research, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A black dome has appeared outside Plymouth’s recently revamped cultural complex, The Box. Visitors can step ...

Labor’s Minister for the Environment Tanya Plibersek visited the Burrup and declared a Perdaman fertiliser plant could go ahead in August. She said the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation had given ...

Shaky economic conditions and the all-consuming nature of small business have combined to spell the end of a popular Darwin gallery and events space. Here’s what comes next for its owner. Songlines, ...