By limiting the syllabus to events post-1788, the NSW Education Standards Authority indirectly sends students the message that Australia’s ‘history’ began at colonisation.
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Our research at the site – which was traditionally restricted to women – has also uncovered tools previously only associated with male crafters.
Many First Nations celebrate the time when boats from across the Indonesian archipelago were not intercepted by Australian authorities.
Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia holds a unique record of First Nations people. For millennia, they lived on vast plains that are now drowned by the sea.
For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.
The river wasn’t merely a physical entity – it was a symbol of spiritual and cultural significance, serving as the life force which flows through Country.
For over 100 years, the Victorian school curriculum has failed to give generations of students the chance to learn about Indigenous political movements.
Western music was often taught to Aboriginal people as preparation for assimilation into white Australian society – but Aboriginal people continued to play the violin even when not prescribed.
When Shauna Bostock began researching a book on her family, she thought it would be limited to her Aboriginal ancestry. But then a late-night phone call led her down a surprising path.
Non-Indigenous Australians need to actively seek the truth about past violence and injustice against Indigenous Australians.
The office of the Protector of Aborigines was established in an effort to hear to the ‘wants, wishes and grievances’ of Aboriginal people. It failed almost immediately.
Research conducted with Gkuthaarn and Kukatj community members helps paint a picture of the lives of eight young Aboriginal people who lived during early colonial expansion.
The sad reality is that if the demands of these early activists had been met nearly a century ago, we would not be suffering the severe disadvantage that hovers over Aboriginal lives still today.
A 20-year cultural revitalisation effort has led to a songline being sung again on Country, to an audience of 140 people.
In her new SBS documentary, Rachel Perkins travels across vast territory to capture key aspects of a war that lasted more than 100 years.
In a new study, archaeologists have re-discovered the role boomerangs played in retouching stone tools.
The Kakadu region has gone through immense transformation throughout history. How can archaeological food scraps tell us about how the First Australians adapted?
A review of studies of Parramatta demonstrates an extensive deep-time archive of Indigenous activity extending over 14,000 years.
History isn’t just learning facts. Students learn about the past by researching information and synthesising it to form an evidence-based argument. This skill is useful for a range of careers.
We now have a glimpse into where early Indigenous Australians likely travelled all those tens of thousands of years ago.
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Distinguished Professor, Charles Sturt University
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Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Michael Bird is a Friend of The Conversation.
JCU Distinguished Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Griffith University
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University, Director of Global Encounters Program., Monash University
