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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...

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

Protestant and Roman Catholic churches hold Christmas Day services on 25 December. The Eastern churches - the Ethiopian Orthodox church, Russian Orthodox church and the Armenian church - celebrate Christmas on 6 or 7 January. Christmas is the celebratio...

This includes Pleistocene era Aboriginal body fossils, many of which were removed and sent overseas. Riversleigh, north-west Queensland, one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh fossil site, near Mount Isa Queensland, is reco...

However, Aborigines had inhabited the Blue Mountains for at least 14,000 years before Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth found the track through the mountain range. Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hovell, Ma...

Traditional Indigenous architecture was domestic - across a range of well crafted and technologically designed shelters and residential camps. Courtesy of Queensland Museum and Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. Annual base camp structures, whether...

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. ...

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...

Aboriginal dancers telling Dreamtime stories at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony. The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people (sometimes referred to as the Dreamtime or Dreamtimes) is when the Ancestral Beings moved across the land and created life...

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. A...

With mounting evidence and stories circulating about their seemingly miraculous ability to find people, Aboriginal trackers' abilities became legendary in the minds of white Australians. Paul Raffaele, Aboriginal tracker Teddy Egan and son. The Australi...

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...

Kakadu National Park covers an area of 19,804 square kilometres within the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Around 50 per cent of the land in Kakadu National Park is Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) ...

Robert James Wallace, Participants in the Corroboree 2000 'Sorry' Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk, 28th May, 2000, photograph: digital. Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (now known as Reconciliation Australia), a Federal Government initiative to promote g...

Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...

National Reconciliation Week (NRW), which was first celebrated in 1996, aims to give people across Australia the opportunity to focus on reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. 27 May is the anniversary of the 1967 referendum in...

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Bundjalung Cultural Tours   (more info)

Bundjalung Cultural Tours offer tours from a half day to three days long. Tours include features such as storytelling, guided walks and bush food.

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.

European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR)   (more info)

Aims to promote awareness of indigenous issues and to provide information for Indigenous Australians about Europe and international organisations. ENIAR is a non profit-making organisation run by volunteers.

Northern Territory Environment Centre   (more info)

Conservation lobby group focussing on issues dealing with the Northern Territory. Site includes information on past and previous issues and campaigns, and membership details.