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The first-ever First Nations anthology of speculative fiction is playful, bitter, loud and proud

Image: Shutterstock This is not “just” an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction, but also the first anthology of First Nations speculative fiction. And what an entry onto...

‘Destruction by a thousand cuts’: the relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape

 Picture: Alan Porritt/AAP Just as the parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters was reconvening in Canberra, another culturally significant site was damaged at...

Sunday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River

Darug women Leanne Watson, Rhiannon Wright and Jasmine Seymour at Dorumbolooa. Avryl Whitney In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell...

Ancient stories and enduring spirit: Loving Country reminds us of the wonders right under our noses

Albany on the south coast of Western Australia, just under five hours’ drive from Perth. Photographer: © Vicky Shukuroglou taken from Loving Country Review: Loving...

Sunday essay: this grandmother tree connects me to Country. I cried when I saw her burned

“Will it grow back Mum?” Younger family members want reassurance at Colo Heights, among the blackened trees and loose soil.  Author provided Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to country

On expedition with Norman Tindale and local Aboriginal group at a rock shelter at Bathurst Head (Thartali) in eastern Cape York Peninsula, 1927. Photo...