Tag: aboriginal history
Mysterious marks on boomerangs reveal a ‘forgotten’ use of this iconic Aboriginal multi-tool
Image: Eva F. Martellotta, Author provided
Alongside kangaroos and Akubra hats, boomerangs are one of the most iconic symbols of the Australian continent. They are also...
Victoria University’s Aboriginal History Archives gets grant
Victoria University's leading-edge Aboriginal History Archive (AHA), which documents almost a century of history of Aboriginal activism, has received a $15,000 State Government local...
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...
Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate
In 1891 a ‘Slave Map of Modern Australia’ was
printed in the British Anti-Slavery Reporter.
Author provided
Prime Minister Scott Morrison asserted in a radio interview that “there...
An incredible journey: the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
The first people to walk along the shores of northern Australia
arrived more than 50,000 years ago. Corey Bradshaw
The size of the first...