While breaking with one “tradition”, an Indigenous motif on Australia’s $5 banknote will restore another.
Articles on Indigenous Australian culture
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This artwork tells the incredible story of the Indigenous Traditional Owners who have long called the Tanami home.
Fewer than 1% of Australian publishing professionals identify as First Nations. We need better representation to authentically represent First Nations voices. Sandra Phillips explains why – and how.
When our COVID-19 lockdowns end, we can’t afford to stop caring about collective well-being. NZ is well positioned to show the world how it’s done – if we listen to Māori and other diverse voices.
Charred plant remains from one of the oldest archaeological sites reveal that the first Australians ate a varied - and sometimes labour-intensive - diet.
Why do students still describe Australia as a ‘young’ country lacking culture? Are our universities doing enough to to teach Australian films, artwork and books?
It is a problem in our efforts to build reconciliation that Australians appear not to be taking up the hospitality of their fellow Australians.
In contrast to perceptions of other homeless people sleeping rough, Darwin’s “long-grassers” are applying a long cultural tradition to deal with the situation in which they find themselves.
A beautiful interactive SBS online documentary puts the spotlight on Marra, an Indigenous language spoken fluently by just three people.
Media reporting and policies almost always tend to focus on what is wrong with Indigenous Australians. This is having unintended consequences.
European invasion completely disrupted the way aboriginal Australians managed fire. Learning from Australia’s first people could help us fight fires in the future.
Genetics and linguistics show Aboriginal people spread iconic boab trees around north west Australia.
NSW Nationals’ leader Troy Grant has broken new ground by speaking Wiradjuri in parliament and at his party’s election launch – and it reflects a growing Indigenous language revival in NSW.
If there is ever a day that I don’t feel Australian, it would be on Australia Day. My mother is a fifth-generation Australian of English and Irish heritage and my father is Munanjahli and an Australian-born…
In the beginning, as far back as we remember, our home islands were not islands at all as they are today. They were part of a peninsula that jutted out from the mainland and we roamed freely throughout…
While you may have heard about the increasing threat that climate change and rising seas pose to Pacific islands — already forcing some communities to move — Australia has its own group of islands that…
The SBS/Blackfella Films production First Contact – that takes six non-Indigenous people and immerses them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time – captured the nation’s attention this week amassing…
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve…
Australian rock art is under threat from both natural and cultural forces impacting on sites. But what saddens me the most is that there is so much government lethargy in Australia when it comes to documenting…
I sing this song. I sing it for my sisters. For I feel the backbone of our struggle in this country, Trying to keep it together. Koori Woman – Marlene Cummins Rachel Perkins’ latest documentary, Black…
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor & Principal Fellow, School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England
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Adjunct associate, Australian National University
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Adjunct Lecturer, Archaeology, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, University of Canberra
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Honorary Professor, Australian National University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University