News View all news Mr Karl Hampton appointed to AIATSIS Council Mon, 23 Dec 2024 The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) welcomes the appointment of Mr Karl Hampton to the AIATSIS Council for a four-year term. Read more Call for Blak Artists: Create AIATSIS’ Official International Women’s Day 2025 Poster! Mon, 16 Dec 2024 Australian Aboriginal Studies out now Tue, 10 Dec 2024 Century-old Dhulu (Thulu) to be returned to the Gamilaraay community by the Museum Der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland Tue, 26 Nov 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 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
