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Ancestral remains returned to Kimberley traditional owners
The stolen remains of three Bardi Jawi people have been returned to their traditional lands in an emotional ceremony in Western Australia.
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Destinations
Pilbara’s Karinji NP: Culture etched in stone
Encompassing 200,000sq.km of some of Earth’s most ancient rocks, Western Australia’s Pilbara region stretches from a coast harbouring ancient human art to an ochre-red inland cut by gorges and waterfalls.
History & Culture
Gallery: The River Country Spirit Ceremony
Traditional owners perform a ceremony along the Darling and Murray rivers for the first time in centuries.
History & Culture
Gallery: The Pila Nguru people
For 600 generations, the resilient Pila Nguru people have inhabited one of Australia’s harshest environments.
History & Culture
Gallery: Queensland’s Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival
Indigenous culture was on display at the Laura Dance Festival held every two years in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula.
History & Culture
Gallery: The Mowanjum corroboree
Tens of thousands of years of culture are brought to life for onlookers every year in the Kimberley town of Derby.
History & Culture
Gallery: The Lurujarri Heritage Trail
Walk alongside the Goolarabooloo community on a journey that traces their 82km songline north of Broome, WA.
History & Culture
Gallery: The outback life from historical Aboriginal images
In the 1920s, Herbert Basedow collected more than 1000 surviving indigenous artefacts, 2200 negatives and 800 plants.
History & Culture
Gallery: Football in Tiwi Islands
We went north to the Tiwi Islands to discover how a tiny community has produced so many Aussie football greats.
History & Culture
Gallery: Living the traditional Martu life
Despite 21st-century influences, WA’s Martu people continue to hunt using age-old customs.