The number of people living in poverty in Australia has increased to 1 in 7, according to a new report released today—at the start of Anti-Poverty Week. The report, from the Australian Council of ...

Dementia is now the leading cause of death, overtaking heart disease. The Conversation’s experts explain how Australians’ ...

Other notable names to be appointed as a companion of the Order of Australia (AC) tonight include former premiers Kristina Keneally, Annastacia Palaszcuk and Steven Marshall, and former federal ...

“Australia Day is Dead!” Indigenous activist Gwenda Stanley chants into the loudspeaker, as a crowd of thousands breaks into applause. It’s Australia’s national day, but the crowd in central Sydney ...

A proposal by the Australian government to recognize the country’s Indigenous people in the constitution has inflamed a culture war and set off divisive debates — including among Indigenous people ...

There is no such thing as one Indigenous Australian people but rather a continent of extraordinarily genetically-diverse, separate communities with greater genetic variability than between people of ...