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To celebrate the strength, creativity and resilience of First Nations peoples across the country, proud Yankunytjatjara and ...
Boffins believe boomerangs could have been invented in Europe instead of Australia. The curved hunting instruments have long ...
Embraced by the world’s best memory athletes, the “method of loci” can also help the rest of us strengthen our recall, heal ...
In June 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was killed during his campaign for the American presidency. There was nationwide mourning with huge crowds lining the tracks for his funeral train, as it travelled ...
On 11 September 1951, the 9.55am train from Prague to Aš, in Communist Czechoslovakia was hijacked and driven to freedom in West Germany. One hundred and eleven people were on board and 34 of them ...
Around 42,000 years ago, Homo sapiens in Europe ushered in a type of prehistoric Renaissance known as the Aurignacian, ...
The Wadumbah dance group shares Aboriginal dreamtime stories to help teach people about Noongar culture. (ABC News: Lily Kristanto)"As a child growing up, there wasn't any information on First ...
I find this a bit uncomfortable, given the way Aboriginal land was taken, and the actions made to remove our people from this Country. More uncomfortable are some of the questions I’m asked in ...
The Tasmanian government will fund the establishment of truth-telling and healing commissioners, but it will no longer pursue a treaty with Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
UNESCO rejects World Heritage listing bid for ancient Aboriginal rock art site. Australia’s bid to list an area abundant in ancient Aboriginal rock art believed to be up to 50,000 years old hasn ...
New smokerlyzers tackling smoking in Tasmanian Aboriginal community. For 20-year-old university student Sienna Scotney-Barron, a new smokerlyzer shocked her with its reading.
She is also studying how Aboriginal astronomy was used to guide what to eat and when. "Our dark constellations come from within the Milky Way, so for example, my absolute favourite is Gugurmin the ...