"We k**w that we were here forever, but Western science is slowly catching up," says a Facebook post from Indige**us Australian rights organisation Sovereign Union, led by activist and Euahlayi leader Ghillar Michael Anderson.
In fact, their relationship to the land stretches back over 50,000 years, according to new scientific research published in the journal Nature. Led by Professor Eske Willerslev of the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with a host of Indige**us elders, the research team sequenced the ge**me of 83 Aboriginal Australians (from groups covering 90 percent of Australia's land mass) and 25 Highland Papuans. Read more...