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Traditional Aboriginal culture is being kept alive in south-western WA
Sarah Rhodes has been recording the meaning of historic possum-skin cloaks to indigenous communities.
Emily Hanna, who won an Australian Institute of Professional Photography award for her documentary photography on the Maningrida indigenous community.
A major indigenous film festival opens in Sydney this week before it sets off for a national tour.
We love these graceful, hopping marsupials, but where did the name kangaroo come from? Frank Povah tells us the yarn.
The bark paintings marked the first traditional campaign in the fight for Aboriginal land rights.
An ambitious project is taking the world’s largest ethnographic collection global.
Tens of thousands of years of culture are brought to life for onlookers every year in the Kimberley town of Derby.
In the 1920s, Herbert Basedow collected more than 1000 surviving indigenous artefacts, 2200 negatives and 800 plants.