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Regenerating an ancient corridor The 180-million-year-old Daintree Rainforest is part of the Eastern Kuku Yalani people’s ancestral lands, handed back to them by the Australian government in 2021.
Don't be fooled by the turquoise waters and bubbling streams — swimmers who ignore warnings at this popular Queensland tourism site risk being pulled into deadly subterranean caverns.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are also LGBTQIA+ are often not considered in research and policies. This can mean First Nations people have limited access services.
How Australia’s Aboriginal people fight fire—with fire They’ve revived the ancient practice of planned burning to renew and preserve their homelands, and help support their communities.
Aboriginal people made pottery, sailed to distant islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived by Sean Ulm, Ian J. McNiven and Kenneth McLean, The Conversation Editors' notes ...
In Aboriginal knowledge, the health of people, family, Mob, culture and Country are symbiotic, and involve spiritual, emotional and physical dimensions.
And, Indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest are building a grassroots movement to fight deforestation. Inside Climate News' Katie Surma joins us. Connect with us: ...
So far, we have surveyed 23 Aboriginal students and ten Aboriginal teachers across government, independent and Catholic schools. Students are in the final years of schooling and at least 16-years-old.
Doing so would recognise Aboriginal people as Australia’s original inhabitants—killing the old claim that Australia was terra nullius, nobody’s land, when Captain James Cook found it in 1770.
But it’s also a clear message: Aboriginal people have a foot in both the present and the past — one governed by clocks, calendars and consumerism, the other by sunrise, seasons and stories.
Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge University.