News View all news Intergenerational return of significant cultural heritage material to Yuendumu and the Warlpiri project Thu, 17 Oct 2024 Read more 2025 AIATSIS Summit to be held in Garramilla (Darwin) with the Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation as co-hosts Mon, 14 Oct 2024 AIATSIS Council appointments announced by the Minister for Indigenous Australians Tue, 08 Oct 2024 Warumungu Cultural Heritage Material returned by the Horniman Museum and Gardens Thu, 12 Sep 2024 Upcoming events View all events AIATSIS Summit 2025 We are pleased to partner with FPAV as co-conveners to deliver Summit 2024 in Naarm Read more Paper and Talk 2024 14 October 2024 to 25 October 2024 Podcasts Listen, learn and be inspired by the stories of Australia’s First Peoples. Listen now Blogs View all blogs 'Treaty' by Yothu Yindi Fri, 12 Jul 2019 ‘Treaty' was a worldwide hit and the first song by a mainly Aboriginal band to peak on the ARIA singles chart. Read more Indigenous languages in Australian parliaments Wed, 18 Mar 2020 In 2016, Malcom Turnbull made history by being the first prime minister to speak an Australian Indigenous language in a parliamentary speech. Read more Reuniting a collection of Brinja community material Fri, 06 May 2022 An extraordinary collection of drawings, sketches, maps and diagrams was uncovered in one of our vaults during a sorting process. Read more Aboriginal English Fri, 18 Feb 2022 Over the years, many Indigenous people have been forced to speak Standard Australian English (AusE) at the expense of ancestral language, Kriol, or Aboriginal English (AbE). Read more