Indigenous Culture

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Environment

Australia’s media isn’t accurately reporting all sides of the Murray-Darling Basin debate

A lack of balance in media reporting may have harmed public perception of environmental water allocations in the Murray-Darling – and Indigenous custodians barely get a look in

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Business & Economics

How a First Nations’ approach in marketing is helping to decolonise healthcare

Marketing, traditionally associated with branding and sales, now holds immense potential as a catalyst for social change

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Arts & Culture

Indigenous ceremonial performance opening up intercultural dialogue

Songs, dances and other ceremonial traditions offer a rare insight into Australian history from an Indigenous perspective

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Arts & Culture

We are Country

Ensuring research is culturally safe isn’t as simple as acknowledging Country and the species within, we must recognise and empower Indigenous Knowledge systems

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Arts & Culture

How data expertise is fostering endangered languages

The PARADISEC digital archive model revitalising endangered languages around the Pacific has now been taken up in North America by the Cherokee Nation

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Arts & Culture

Sustaining song and spirit

The decade-long Junba Project in the Kimberley has helped revitalise the public song-and-dance tradition, strengthening community spirit and the confidence of young people

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Health & Medicine

Big dreams of Country and culture

A deep engagement with culture can help foster meaningful connections between educators and Indigenous young people

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Sciences & Technology

Opportunities for Traditional Owners in the carbon economy

Empowering Indigenous land management through emissions reductions and the carbon economy will have the best outcomes for people and the environment

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Environment

The future of our cities is Indigenous

Australia’s unceded cities are still part of Country, and if we care for them they will care for us as we face the climate challenge

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Environment

Australia’s rivers are ancestral beings

Rivers around the world are now recognised by law as legal persons and living entities. Here in Australia, our rivers can be understood as ‘ancestral beings’ under Indigenous laws

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