Sacred trees are a cornerstone of our national identity. They transcend simple economics and sit at the centre of the sacred — sentinels in ceremony, birthing and burials.
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Rio Tinto’s own staff wanted the blast stopped.
Heritage is non-renewable — just like the mineral wealth of this country.
Two ABC television premieres – both about the mid-century British nuclear testing at Maralinga in regional South Australia – approach tricky territory in very different ways.
Laws in other countries recognise ‘rights of nature’. But even trees sacred to Indigenous Australian communities have no special protection.
The Victorian government plans to destroy trees and sites sacred to Djab Warrung people to make way for the Western Highway at the same time as it seeks heritage listing for the Eastern Freeway.
The Coorong’s Indigenous heritage is threatened by off-road vehicles and climate change.
Of 19 World Heritage sites across the country, only two, Kakadu and Uluru-Kata Tjuta, recognise the values of “living” Aboriginal culture. None of Australia’s three sites inscribed purely for cultural values recognises Aboriginal people.
Development projects are claiming ancestral sites at alarming rates. This ineffective protection of Indigenous heritage is a violation of human rights.
In the forests around the Murray River, Victoria’s Watti Watti people have trained trees to mark significant cultural locations in the landscape.
New research has cast doubt on the effectiveness of scientific studies monitoring industry impact on rock art in the Burrup Peninsula.
Adam Goodes’ actions – from his celebratory dance to his decision to temporarily withdraw from the AFL – epitomise the concept of male Indigenous dignity.
More than a century after he died, the Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who famously fought General Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn, is thought of as transcendent force – attuned to the universe in a…
The SBS/Blackfella Films production First Contact – that takes six non-Indigenous people and immerses them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time – captured the nation’s attention this week amassing…
In June, the Western Australian Government released draft amendments to the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. This is the legislation that determines what qualifies for heritage protection in the state – and…
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Professor Sustainability and urban Policy, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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Lecturer, Department of Planning and Geography, Curtin University
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
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Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor Emeritus, School of Social Science, University of Queensland and Willem Willems Chair for Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Heritage Management, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Netherlands, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Environmental Management, James Cook University
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Communication, University of Southern Queensland
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
