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Great Dividing Range - Australia's Culture Portal

Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. In March 1812 the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hovell, Major Mitchell ...

Indigenous Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Traditional Indigenous architecture was domestic - across a range of well crafted and technologically designed shelters and residential camps. Courtesy of Queensland Museum and Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. Annual base camp structures, whether...

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...

The Dreaming - Australia's Culture Portal

Aboriginal dancers telling Dreamtime stories at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony. The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people (sometimes referred to as the Dreamtime or Dreamtimes) is when the Ancestral Beings moved across the land and created life...

Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal

This article may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drink...

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...

Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal

Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...

Zoos in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...

Australian folklore - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...

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Warmun Art Centre - Contemporary Aboriginal Art (more info)

The Warmun Art Centre, at Turkey Creek, via Kununurra in Western Australia, provides artists of the Warmun community with economic independence and the opportunity to share their Gija culture and country with visitors. The Centre operates as a studio and

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The World Cup Dream: stories of Australia's soccer mums and dads (website Powerhouse Museum )

The Powerhouse Museum takes a unique look at the rise of the Socceroos to World Cup status in The World Cup dream: stories of Australia,Äôs soccer mums and dads. A collaborative project between the Powerhouse Museum and Migration Heritage Centre NSW, the...

Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming: Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories at Central Art - Aboriginal Art Store (website Central Art Aboriginal Art Store )

The Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming is one of the most significant Dreamtime Stories for the famous Petyarre sisters of Utopia. > In the Utopia region of Central Australia there is one unique Lizard called the Mountain Devil Lizard or Thorny Devil Lizard....

Goanna Dreaming: Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories at Central Art - Aboriginal Art Store (website Central Art Aboriginal Art Store )

In Central Australia, the Goanna is a totemic spirit and an Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to the works of Aboriginal artists who paint their Goanna Dreaming to honour their ancestral spirit. > The Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to both works on bar...

The Dreaming, Aboriginal Stories of creation (website FrogandToad's Indigenous Australia )