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How making a film exploring Indigenous stories of the night sky enriched my perspective as a scientist

          Ilgari Inyayimaha (Shared Sky), painted by artists Margaret Whitehurst, Jenny Green, Barbara Merritt, Charmaine Green, Kevin Merritt, Sherryl Green, Tracey Green, Wendy Jackamarra,...

Sunday essay: Tongerlongeter — the Tasmanian resistance fighter we should remember as a war hero

      Lieutenant John Bowen and party arriving at Risdon, by Thomas Gregson (c.1860). Courtesy of the WL Crowther Library   Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers...

Will your grandchildren have the chance to visit Australia’s sacred trees? Only if our sick indifference to Aboriginal heritage is cured

  Picture: Shuttlestock Trees have always been a point of conflict between colonisers and Indigenous people. At the very beginning of European-Indigenous interactions, skirmishes broke out...

First Nations families need support to stay together, before we create another Stolen Generation

      Child protection services must be culturally safe and responsive to the Aboriginal children and families they serve. Jodie Griggs / Getty Image   Aboriginal and...

Art by Indigenous prisoners can forge links with culture and a future away from crime

      The Torch artist and Barkindji man Trevor Mitchell at work on a painting. The Torch Featuring over 350 artworks created by more than 320...

Sunday essay: my belly is angry, my throat is in love — how body parts express emotions in Indigenous languages

  Picture: Nikki Short/AAP Many languages in the world allude to body parts to describe emotions and feelings, as in “broken-heart”, for instance. While some...

KHT – Connect with Aboriginal Victoria

To create a society that embraces diversity and inclusion, it is critical that truth-telling, the history of colonisation and its impact on Aboriginal people...

Sunday essay: truth telling, Return to Uluru and reckoning with the sins of fathers

  Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP Return to Uluru is the latest book from respected historian Mark McKenna. It is one of a few history books published recently that explicitly...

Bighouse Dreaming in the spotlight for YIRRAMBOI 2021

Arts Centre Melbourne is bringing Declan Furber Gillick's powerful show Bighouse Dreaming to the Fairfax Studio from 5 – 9 May as a part of YIRRAMBOI Festival. The award-winning work returns to Melbourne for the...

This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting

 Picture: Damien Finch, Author provided In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a...
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