Australia’s fertility rate has fallen to record lows, with new research showing parents are having fewer children than needed to sustain the population.

The issue made headlines recently, but experts in the field are skeptical about what the falling fertility rate really is.

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

Annette Hlawa photographed these four Aboriginal men and two boys at Mount Molloy, Australia, before 1907. (Ethnological Museum of the State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage via ...

“We have a reasonable estimate that the eastern Australian humpback population was at least 30,000 whales prior to the last ...

Putting Australia first means recalibrating our economy away from dependence on the outside towards self-reliance. To rebuild ...

Commuters walk in the Central Business District at lunch time in Sydney SYDNEY (Reuters) - The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia's population projections in a challenge for ...

Indigenous Australians may as well be living in the different country from the rest of the population. Every year on January 26, Australia Day, huge numbers of people gather to celebrate living in one ...

The number of people living in poverty in Australia has increased to 1 in 7, according to a new report released today—at the ...

Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.

CNN) — The number of people stung by red fire ants in Australia has increased significantly in past weeks, with 23 people requiring hospital treatment since the beginning of March, according to ...

To a newly arrived red fox, the abundant rolling grasslands and swamps of Wadawurrung Country, around what is now called Port ...