Every inch of Australia is written in song ... perpetuating the Aboriginal connection with the creation and the land. Indeed, the entire concept of Dreamtime is perpetual and ever-evolving. The idea ...
Though it's not a true story, author Joan Lindsay's eerie tale, Picnic at Hanging Rock, has become a bit of an Australian myth, made further iconic through Peter Weir's moody, hypnotic film.
Real or not, the elusive beast has its claws deep into the collective psyche of the western city. Art gallery director Toby ...
Bush is a woman whose Kentish-accented conversational normalcy always slyly undercuts the popular myth of her as ... cockney bank robber, an aboriginal experiencing dreamtime, Houdini’s wife ...
Kangaroos are central players in the rich symbolic world Aboriginals call the Dreamtime ... come to Australia, they want to hug a kangaroo, hold a koala bear, meet an Aboriginal person.
Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we ...
The Boers’ assertion of entitlement to South African lands echoes the mindset of European colonisers who viewed the Americas and Australia as “empty” or terra nullius. This legal concept disregarded ...
The Daly region is located in northern Australia ... Aboriginal people in the region, water is a sacred and elemental source and a symbol of life (Langton 2006). The quality of water as 'living' or as ...
He has written widely on issues ranging from military involvement to political activism and sport, and published titles with the National Library of Australia including True Light and Shade: an ...
You are a genocidalist." Thorpe, who represents Victoria, has called a treaty between the Australian governing body and the Aboriginal population for years, arguing that they never ceded their ...
Research shows Indigenous voices and stories are sorely lacking from Australian classrooms. This is key component of truth ...