A 20-year cultural revitalisation effort has led to a songline being sung again on Country, to an audience of 140 people.
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Most of our knowledge on songlines comes from central and northern Australia. Now, a songline from north Victoria, reaching up the NSW coast is being reawakened.
A new film canvasses Indigenous Australian accounts of, and responses to, Captain Cook’s arrival.
Wanji-wanji’s lyrics have remained unchanged over thousands of kilometres and the past 150 years.
This exhibition at the National Museum of Australia is not only brilliant but marks an important turning point in how Aboriginal art is exhibited.
Aboriginal people have been using the stars to help remember routes between distant locations, and these routes are still alive in our highway networks today.
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Adjunct fellow, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland
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