Known as Gutharraguda, which means “two waters” in a local dialect, the primordial lagoons of Shark Bay contain stromatolites, or calcified rock mounds built by the last remaining descendants of the ...

It was an hour after I had left the Utopia Art Centre, in remote, central Australia, when our van turned off the bumpy dirt track and into the bush. We were in the Northern Territory, one of the ...

We all know the scene, it’s Australia’s most sacred and photographed monoliths. Rising out of the red sands, Uluru, also known as Ayres Rock to most, is an ochre-colored beacon that stands as a ...

Uluru and neighboring Kata Tjuta are UNESCO World Heritage sites, and to Australia’s Aboriginal population, sacred ground. Over 100 million years in the making, sculpting by heavy winds, pouring rain ...

“The Dreaming” isn’t quite the right way to put it. For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the Dreaming was a period when giants walked the earth, forming the landscape as we know it through their ...

To be sure, there is a sudden surge of people, mostly domestic visitors, who want to climb Ayers Rock before October 26 when a ban is enforced. But there's more to the boom in the famous park in ...

Aboriginal theories about the creation of the Uluru rock formation vary and are rarely shared with outsiders, but the Anangu people are clear about its hallowed place in their heritage. It’s where the ...

A group of Aboriginal Australians have performed a traditional dance and song before the King at London’s Australia House to mark the 40th anniversary of the Handback of the Uluru National Park.