Connecting you with Australian culture online
There are a number of professions in Australia that contribute to a diverse design industry, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, jewellers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture makers and textil...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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.
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
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
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
Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. An Aboriginal person, usually from south eastern Australia. First recorded in 1834, Koori comes from the term for 'Aboriginal man or person' in the language of the Awabak...
Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. It comes from bang meaning 'dead', which was first recorded in 1841 in the Yagara Aboriginal language of the Brisbane region. The word found its way into nineteenth-centu...
Mini Disc Recorders: The Greatest Tools for Language Learning. We have found Mini Disc recorders very useful for learning language because they offer a number of features that are unavailable on cassette or DAT recorders. Mini Disc Recorders: recommendat...
Within the Diploma of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies there are elective units available commencing with Introduction to Yolngu Languages and Culture. IAD Press publishes language dictionaries in NSW Aboriginal languages, as well as many of t...
Translators need to be competent at working with written language, both their own language and the alternative language. 1. Front Translation The purpose of the front translation is to adapt the written source language so that it resembles more closely t...
Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. It comes from bang meaning 'dead', which was first recorded in 1841 in the Yagara Aboriginal language of the Brisbane region. The word found its way into nineteenth-centu...
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