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.
Tag: Indigenous Australia
History & Culture
Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival
Indigenous culture was on display at the Laura Dance Festival held every two years in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula.
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New Aboriginal language born in the NT
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Aboriginal colonisation was planned migration
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Aboriginal genes suggest Indian migration
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OPINION: Return Aboriginal sacred objects
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