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‘Care is in everything we do and everything we are’: the work of Indigenous women needs to be valued

Elise Klein, Australian National University; Chay Brown, Australian National University; Janet Hunt, Australian National University; Kayla Glynn-Braun, Indigenous Knowledge, and Zoe Staines, The University of Queensland

To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to capturing, and appreciating, their work, paid and unpaid.
Performers in Aboriginal Moomba: Out of the Dark, in 1951. Produced by Bill Onus and Doug Nicholls of the Australian Aborigines’ League. State Library of Victoria

In 1951, corroboree dancers in Darwin went on strike: their actions would reverberate as far as Melbourne

Amanda Harris, University of Sydney; Linda Barwick, University of Sydney, and Tiriki Onus, The University of Melbourne

Aboriginal people in 1951 framed cultural practice as labour and as a tool for advocacy for Aboriginal rights stretching across the continent.
May Nango sharing stories about Mamukala wetlands with her grandson, in 2015. Anna Florin (courtesy of GAC)

65,000 years of food scraps found at Kakadu tell a story of resilience amid changing climate, sea levels and vegetation

Anna Florin, University of Cambridge; Andrew Fairbairn, The University of Queensland, and Chris Clarkson, The University of Queensland

The Kakadu region has gone through immense transformation throughout history. How can archaeological food scraps tell us about how the First Australians adapted?
This sketch depicts the Waterloo Creek massacre (also known as the Slaughterhouse Creek massacre), part of the conflict between mounted police and Indigenous Australians in 1838. Godfrey Charles Mundy/National Library of Australia

Enforcing assimilation, dismantling Aboriginal families: a history of police violence in Australia

Thalia Anthony, University of Technology Sydney and Harry Blagg, The University of Western Australia

Police played a unique role in many settler colonies executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.
Caroline Spry

How a stone wedged in a gum tree shows the resilience of Aboriginal culture in Australia

Caroline Spry, La Trobe University; Brian J Armstrong, University of Johannesburg; Elspeth Hayes, University of Wollongong; John Allan Webb, La Trobe University; Kathryn Allen, The University of Melbourne; Lisa Paton, University of New England; Quan Hua, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, and Richard Law Kelsham Fullagar, University of Wollongong

An Aboriginal tree on Wiradjuri Country is much younger than anybody thought.
Uncle Fred Deeral as little old man in the film The Message, by Zakpage, to be shown at the National Museum of Australia in April. Nik Lachajczak of Zakpage

An honest reckoning with Captain Cook’s legacy won’t heal things overnight. But it’s a start

Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation

An honest reckoning with Captain Cook’s legacy won’t heal things overnight. But it’s a start The Conversation41.4 MB (download)
The impact of 1770 has never eased for Aboriginal people. It was a collision of catastrophic proportions.
A scene from the author’s film The Message, commissioned by the National Museum of Australia. At the first encounter in Botany Bay, two Gweagal warriors threw stones and spears at Cook, saying ‘warrawarrawa’, meaning ‘they are all dead’. Nik Lachajczak of Zakpage

‘They are all dead’: for Indigenous people, Cook’s voyage of ‘discovery’ was a ghostly visitation

Alison Page, University of Technology Sydney

Incidents from Cook’s first voyage highlight themes relevant in Indigenous-settler relations today: environmental care, reconciliation and governance. This collision of beliefs, it seems, wasn’t lost on Cook.
Regrowth one month after fires at Colo Heights, NSW. A legacy of displacement and racism inflames bushfire trauma for Aboriginal Australians. Vanessa Cavanagh

Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis

Bhiamie Williamson, Australian National University; Jessica K Weir, Western Sydney University, and Vanessa Cavanagh, University of Wollongong

As Australia picks up the pieces after the fires, we must understand the unique grief Aboriginal people experience from a loss of country.
B.C. green-lighted an exploration permit to a mining company, despite the fact that plans for a mine were rejected both federally and by the Tsilhqot’in National Government. (Garth Lenz/ Tsilhqot’in National Government)

Tsilhqot’in blockade points to failures of justice impeding reconciliation in Canada

Justine Townsend, University of Guelph; Faisal Moola, University of Guelph, and Megan Youdelis, University of Guelph

Dasiqox Tribal Park offers a powerful example of what true reconciliation can mean for Canada when Indigenous peoples and their rights are respected and upheld.

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  1. Aboriginal heritage
  2. Aboriginal history
  3. Aboriginal people
  4. Aboriginal tradition
  5. Archaeology
  6. Australian history
  7. Indigenous art
  8. Indigenous astronomy
  9. Indigenous history
  10. Indigenous land

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