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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.
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When people first came to Australia 65,000 years ago, the Earth was in an ice age. Then the seas rose, drought and floods came – and still people endured.
Loukas Koungoulos, Amy Way, Rebecca Jones and David Doyle excavating the dingo burial. Photo
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The bones of the animal were found eroding from the ground. After careful analysis, it will be reburied on Country.
Performers in Aboriginal Moomba: Out of the Dark, in 1951. Produced by Bill Onus and Doug Nicholls of the Australian Aborigines’ League.
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Aboriginal people in 1951 framed cultural practice as labour and as a tool for advocacy for Aboriginal rights stretching across the continent.
Inuit hunters:
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All over the world, the territories of Indigenous peoples map onto regions of the richest and most persistent biodiversity. A book about hunter-gatherer Arctic peoples shows why.
May Nango sharing stories about Mamukala wetlands with her grandson, in 2015.
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The Kakadu region has gone through immense transformation throughout history. How can archaeological food scraps tell us about how the First Australians adapted?
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Some 17,000 years ago, Aboriginal artists often depicted kangaroos, fish, birds, reptiles, echidnas and plants — especially yams.
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Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
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.
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Police played a unique role in many settler colonies executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.
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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.
Juukan Gorge photographed May 15.
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The destruction of the 46,000 year old site Juukan Gorge forces us to confront archaeology and history in Australia.
Rangers from Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa, conducting cool season burning on Martu Country.
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The bushfire royal commission will look at incorporating Aboriginal knowledge into mainstream fire management. But in practice, what does that mean?
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
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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’.
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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.
Thirty years on, Bran Nue Dae still feels relevant.
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Jimmy Chi’s 1990 musical is given its first major stage revival – and leaves the audience singing along.
Regrowth one month after fires at Colo Heights, NSW. A legacy of displacement and racism inflames bushfire trauma for Aboriginal Australians.
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As Australia picks up the pieces after the fires, we must understand the unique grief Aboriginal people experience from a loss of country.
Sunshine Coast University Hospital uses evidence-based design to provide outside spaces with views that Indigenous people tell us they value.
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Many Indigenous people tell us they find hospitals stressful, uncomfortable and alienating. Here’s how good design can help.
It is impossible to fully capture the landscape of the Flinders Ranges in one image. Spanning 400km, it is constantly changing.
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The Flinders Ranges in South Australia is Adnyamathanha Country. A country of 600 million-year-old fossils and 45,000-year-old living culture.
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.
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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.
Nawarddeken Academy’s self-built school is an example of reinvesting funds from payment for ecosystem services to meet critical community needs in innovative ways.
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We now have a proven model for supporting self-determined building on Aboriginal homelands. The next question is how can its reach be extended?