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Bark Petitions: Many visits, many petitions and much misunderstanding - Australia's Culture Portal

The bark petitions were the first to use traditional forms and combine bark painting with text typed on paper. Petition to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by Galarrwuy Yunupingu from Yirrkala, Northern Territory, 23 July, 2008. In July 2008, Yunupingu presented...

Australian Indigenous ceremony - Australia's Culture Portal

For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...

Indigenous peoples of the World - Australia's Culture Portal

UNESCO states that Indigenous populations number some 350 million individuals in more than 70 countries in the world, and that this represents more than 5000 languages and cultures. Today, many Indigenous peoples live on the fringes of society and are de...

Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal

While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drinking, and digging sticks. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with stone technology. T...

Australian Indigenous cultural heritage - Australia's Culture Portal

It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...

Australian Indigenous art - Australia's Culture Portal

Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...

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Learning Indigenous languages - Life Matters - 19-January-2009 -   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

There were once 250 separate Indigenous languages spoken in Australia. These days, according to the 2005 National Indigenous Languages Survey, only about 18 survive in a reasonably robust form. But how many non-Indigenous Australians have ever had a go ...

ABC Local: Australia Wide - Indigenous (Other Peoples)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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National Museum of Australia - Indigenous Languages   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

BatmaniaChildren's spacesFamily trailsGamesGet Snappy Photogra ... Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. The word found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, where the phrase to go bung meant 'to...

Indigenous languages in schools   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Online Indigenous - Latest Videos   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Indigenous Culture   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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About Australia: Indigenous languages   (website Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) )

At the 2006 census, 55 695 people, or about one in eight Indigenous Australians, said that an Indigenous language was their primary household language. The Australian Government supports Indigenous languages through the Maintenance of Indigenous Language...

Speaking Out - Djarragun Hospitality Students, Indigenous Language School and Gadigal Music launch   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

A group of hospitality students from Djarragun College near Cairns recently came to Sydney to attend a Careers Week at the International College of Management Sydney (ICMS), the students at Vincentia High on the NSW South Coast talk about what it's like t...

Inside Film: Film and Television Industry News and Issues for Australian Content Creators - SBS commits to Indigenous language content   (website Inside Film Magazine )

<br/> <br/> Radio: <br/> Engaging Australia&rsquo;s diverse multicultural community with Indigenous languages by commissioning radio material that explores the history and depth of Indigenous languages. <br/> <br/> Incorporating Indigenous languages for ...

The SBS brand   (website Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) )

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Australian Indigenous Languages Collection (AILC) | Australian Memory of the World Program   (website Australian Memory of the World Program )

The Australian Indigenous Languages Collection (AILC) was established in 1981 and is held in the Library of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Australian Indigenous languages are unique and spoken nowhere...

SBS announces Indigenous language broadcast drive   (website CBOnline )

Community Radio at a Glance An agreement to set up the Queensland Indigenous Leadersí Forum (QILF) was signed in Brisbane by the combined elected representatives of the 150,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of The forum was designed to brin...

SBS announces Indigenous language broadcast drive   (website CBOnline )

SBS today announced it will commence national consultations with Indigenous communities to get inspiration and formulate ideas for a long-term Indigenous content strategy for SBS television, radio and online based around Indigenous languages. Engaging Au...