History & Culture
The Aboriginal art of making possum-skin cloaks
Sarah Rhodes has been recording the meaning of historic possum-skin cloaks to indigenous communities.
Tag: indigenous
History & Culture
Gallery: Inside Arnhem Land
Emily Hanna, who won an Australian Institute of Professional Photography award for her documentary photography on the Maningrida indigenous community.
AG Blog
Indigenous film festival opens in Sydney
A major indigenous film festival opens in Sydney this week before it sets off for a national tour.
AG Blog
Aussie lingo: kangaroo
We love these graceful, hopping marsupials, but where did the name kangaroo come from? Frank Povah tells us the yarn.
On This Day
On this day: Yirrkala bark petitions before Parliament
The bark paintings marked the first traditional campaign in the fight for Aboriginal land rights.
News
Aboriginal culture preserved online
An ambitious project is taking the world’s largest ethnographic collection global.
History & Culture
Mowanjum: WA’s largest Aboriginal corroboree
Tens of thousands of years of culture are brought to life for onlookers every year in the Kimberley town of Derby.
History & Culture
Historic Aboriginal images reveal outback life
In the 1920s, Herbert Basedow collected more than 1000 surviving indigenous artefacts, 2200 negatives and 800 plants.
News
New Indigenous Protected Area the 50th in Australia
Aboriginal land has been protected as part of the Northern Territory’s newest Indigenous Protected Area.
News
96-year-old wins top indigenous art award
Dickie Minyintiri, who only began painting five years ago, has taken out Australia’s premier indigenous art award.