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Bark Petitions: Many visits, many petitions and much misunderstanding - Australia's Culture Portal

The bark petitions were the first to use traditional forms and combine bark painting with text typed on paper. Petition to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by Galarrwuy Yunupingu from Yirrkala, Northern Territory, 23 July, 2008. In July 2008, Yunupingu presented...

Australian Indigenous ceremony - Australia's Culture Portal

For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...

Indigenous peoples of the World - Australia's Culture Portal

UNESCO states that Indigenous populations number some 350 million individuals in more than 70 countries in the world, and that this represents more than 5000 languages and cultures. Today, many Indigenous peoples live on the fringes of society and are de...

Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal

While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drinking, and digging sticks. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with stone technology. T...

Australian Indigenous cultural heritage - Australia's Culture Portal

It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...

Australian Indigenous art - Australia's Culture Portal

Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...

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FATSIL - Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages   (more info)

The Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages is the national body for community based Indigenous language programs in Australia. The organisation was established to promote the maintenance, retrieval and revival of Indigenous language

IAD Press   (more info)

IAD Press is Australia's national Indigenous publishing house. The purpose of the Press is to publish the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and illustrators, promote the many and varied voices of Indigenous Australia, and maintain

FrogandToad's Indigenous Australia   (more info)

FrogandToad's Indigenous Australia has been researched and written entirely by Indigenous people. Visit this site for information about Australian Indigenous culture, language, Dreamtime, festivals, social organisation and achievement.

Dhinawun Consultancy   (more info)

Primarily an educational consultancy has a major focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. Cultural activities conducted by the consultancy include: Indigenous language; Aboriginal Writing and cross-cultural training for teachers. Find out

Aboriginal Languages of Australia   (more info)

The internet library for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Part of the World Wide Web's Official Virtual Library project. The site offers over 130 resources for about 40 out of the more than 200 Indigenous Australian languages.

AUSTLANG   (more info)

AUSTLANG provides information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. The core of AUSTLANG is a database which assembles information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages from a number of sources.

Awaba   (more info)

An electronic database and guide to the history, culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales.

Daki Budtcha Records   (more info)

Daki Budtcha is an Indigenous - owned recording and publishing company established to protect, promote and maintain the integrity of Indigenous Australian culture - songs, dances, stories, drama and other related art forms. Daki Budtcha continues to break

Yugambeh Museum   (more info)

Aims to conserve and promote the cultural heritage of the traditional Aboriginal people of the Yugambeh Language Region, an area which extends from the Logan River in the north and west to the Tweed River in the south, and eastwards across South Stradbrok

A brief Aboriginal history of Ryde   (more info)

The Ryde city council presents a brief Aboriginal history of Ryde to describe the indigenous inhabitants of that area and their languages. It also describes significant Aboriginal people associated with Ryde and the dispossion of the tribes from these ar

Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD)   (more info)

IAD is an independent Aboriginal community-controlled language resource centre and adult education centre serving the Aboriginal community of Central Australia. The website gives information about IAD, language and culture, general information, courses av

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SBS announces Indigenous language broadcast drive   (website CBOnline )

Community Radio at a Glance An agreement to set up the Queensland Indigenous Leadersí Forum (QILF) was signed in Brisbane by the combined elected representatives of the 150,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of The forum was designed to brin...

SBS announces Indigenous language broadcast drive   (website CBOnline )

SBS today announced it will commence national consultations with Indigenous communities to get inspiration and formulate ideas for a long-term Indigenous content strategy for SBS television, radio and online based around Indigenous languages. Engaging Au...

Paper and Talk: A manual for reconstituting materials in Australian Indigenous languages   (website Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) )

This is a concise guide and an excellent introduction to the complicated issues of language reconstruction. Taking texts and wordlists from historical sources and making them useful in current language programs and literature presents a variety of challe...