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Collection of items dedicated to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories.
A diverse range of material, offering a rich interpretation of Australia's past and contemporary Indigenous culture.
Photographs, manuscripts, oral histories and digital stories collections of the John Oxley Library.
Collections prioritising Indigenous voices.
Specialist material relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people including the Mountford-Sheard Collection.
Storylines, resources, music, Indigenous oral history and family history.
Historical and contemporary material and research guides.
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Connecting people working with Indigenous knowledge sources in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
Learn about the experience, achievements and struggles of First Australians since Federation and their contribution to Australian life, laws and culture.
The NFSA holds and preserves more than 25,000 works that document the unique place that First Peoples occupy within Australian society, and the diversity of their cultural and creative expressions.
Culturally competent items from ACU Library collection that have been evaluated by Librarians.
Developed collaboratively by the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous Knowledges Institute
The Anti-Colonial Research Library holds open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube videos on Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies.
Represents the collections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Library and covers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies, Stolen generation, removal of children, Arts, copyright issues, Racism, discrimination, Internet and telecommunications facilities and Communities. NOTE: Coverage - 1968 to December 2002.
Covering content on historical and topical issues within indigenous studies. Including anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policymaking, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts.
Covers published and unpublished material on Australian Indigenous studies. NOTE: Coverage - 1990 to present.
National and international publications, including books, articles, conference papers and reports focusing on Indigenous education.
Remote Australia Online contains evidence based reports and research on topics related to remote Australia, including education, business, policy, communication, infrastructure, social and cultural welfare and natural resource management.
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There are a number of book publishing companies focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content, such as:
Publishes Australian Indigenous studies that capture the unique heritage and diverse lives of Australia's first peoples.
Publishing arm of Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Northern Territory, Australia.
Publishes a range of colourful children’s story books which incorporate Aboriginal languages to help young ones begin to learn a traditional Australian language.
Indigenous community-based publishing venture based in North Queensland, and specialising in illustrated books for young readers.
A not-for-profit Indigenous Corporation publishing children’s picture books, memoir, fiction (junior, YA and adult), non-fiction, graphic novels, social history and poetry.
Statistical data for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people including health, housing, education, language and population size.
National Indigenous and Knowledge Network for HDR candidates
Reconciliation Australia was established in 2001 and is the lead body for reconciliation in the nation.
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ADBT was established under the Gulf Communities Agreement negotiated between Century Mine, Queensland State Government and Gulf Native Title groups and was established to administer negotiated funds from the Century Mine, primarily for business development and indigenous ownership/investment in business.
Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre
The Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC) courses unlock opportunities for Indigenous people of all ages to develop their careers and expand the ways they contribute to the community.
Support and assistance for Indigenous business owners to start, develop and grow their businesses.
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Business Directory.
Barayamal supports First Peoples entrepreneurship. They build technology solutions, run business accelerator programs, free events, the Indigipreneur podcast and school-based education.
IBA provides information and support for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander in economical areas.
"The definition of Indigenous entrepreneurship is different to Western entrepreneurship because it is based on the principle of community-first."
The South East Queensland Indigenous Chamber of Commerce is committed to fostering trade, building skills and capability, advocating and generating wealth for Indigenous businesses in our regions – Brisbane, Caboolture, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Ipswich and Toowoomba.
Supply Nation provides Australia’s leading database of verified Indigenous businesses: search by business name, product, service, area, or category.
"First Nations people don't need a B-Corp Certificate or social enterprise training, that's just how we grow up, it's in our genes."
Dean is a Kamilaroi man who grew up within the Aboriginal Community in Gunnedah, NSW.
Conversations on Beyond the Gap aim to investigate Indigenous Australians relationships with Corporate Australia, the influences and constructs that should be considered for best practice Reconciliation Action Plans, and what is the best path forward to engage and empower our country’s First Nations people.
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Early childhood educators understand the importance of respecting, valuing and celebrating Reconciliation and Intercultural Education. The problem is How do we actually and specifically do this in our particular contexts? How can our pedagogy reflect this?
Brings together key strategies, programs and initiatives aimed at improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people across the spectrum of education.
Materials on Indigenous education from publishers in Australia and overseas.
Supports schools and early learning services in Australia to develop environments that foster a high level of knowledge and pride in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and contributions.
ABC Education website.
The QCAA has developed a range of materials to support the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into the school curriculum.
Encouraging Best Practice Teaching with Indigenous Stories. Content to help to provide meaningful teaching and learning resources.
The Dandiiri Schools and Community Library helps develop informed and confident educators who are able to engage with the story of Indigenous Australia professionally and personally.
Clips from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Many of the clips also include teachers' notes.
The Indigenous Portal contains links to strategies, programs and resources to help improve education outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
This site from the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment contains links to the National Agreement on Closing the Gap and the support and strategies available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Includes links to statistics from Queensland Department of Education, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority and Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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Resources to support the work of health professionals in improving knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health issues.
A collection of reports, discussion papers, and articles on Australian Public Policy
Providing the evidence base to inform practice and policy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
AIHW products that focus specifically on Indigenous Australians are captured on this page.
The Lowitja Institute site provides access to LIt.search which provides easy access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health literature on the PubMed database.
This search tool provides easy access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health literature on the PubMed database.
Health Video from University of Newcastle In this video researcher, Shellie Smith, discusses what researchers should consider when working with Indigenous knowledge and materials.
A tool to appraise research quality from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.
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Provides access to a vast record of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and their publications.
This site contains information about acts of violence that may be distressing. There are no images of people on this website.
Provides a unique and personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to Australian Federation at the close of the nineteenth century.
A multidisciplinary website working toward a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language communities have full command of their languages and can use them as much as they wish to by communication, advocacy and education strategies.
"Austlang provides information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages which has been assembled from a number of referenced sources."
"The National Library's Manuscripts collection contains original written records relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their languages. These records provide a glimpse of the approximately 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages of Australia."
Find out about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, history, culture, and rights. Preserving over 6 million feet of film, 650,000 photographs, 35,000 hours of sound, rare books, manuscripts and more dating back to 1818.
Daisy Bates (1859-1951) was a remarkable and quite controversial ethnographer who spent all of her adult life living in Aboriginal communities around parts of Western Australia and South Australia. In collaboration with the National Library of Australia (NLA), these web pages make accessible this extremely valuable collection of over 23,000 pages of wordlists of Australian languages, originally recorded by Daisy Bates in the early 1900s, made up of the original questionnaires and around 4,000 pages of typescripts. This will enable reuse of the collection by Aboriginal people searching for their own heritage languages and by other researchers.
"The National Archives holds a significant number of records about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and history.
We have records on individual Indigenous people as well as Australian Government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs."
"The AIATSIS Indigenous Australian Languages Collection includes published and unpublished material across a range of formats such as print, manuscript, audio and audio visual, posters, maps, serials and born digital. These include genres such as grammatical descriptions and dictionaries, transcriptions of spoken texts, language learning resources, vernacular literacy development, religious texts and other literature, all covering contemporary and historical works."
"This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia."
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Databases of Australian Indigenous law available on AustLII.
Australian material relating to native title and land claims including journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, reports and press clippings. This collection began in the 1990s, although some material dates back to 1839. It also includes selected material from other jurisdictions including New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Africa and Asia.
Comprehensive collection of publicly accessible native title case and legislation summaries in Australia.
"The aim of the Clearinghouse is to promote discussion and disseminate relevant Indigenous justice information to government policy makers and those working in the Indigenous justice field."
The only Indigenous law centre in Australia.
Murri Court links eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander defendants to cultural and support services to help them reform.
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Explores the many aspects of Indigenous Astronomy in Australia - how Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities perceive various types astronomical phenomena, how elders read the stars, or watch videos of animations, dances, and songs related to the stars.
The website is a formal recognition of traditional weather and climate knowledge that has been developed and passed down through countless generations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
This document was developed by the Indigenous Participation Community of Practice: a collective designed to foster greater coordination and collaboration across the NRM sector and initiate and drive change at a state-wide level.
CSIRO are working with Indigenous communities and organisations to create Indigenous-driven science solutions that support sustainable futures for Indigenous peoples, cultures and Country.
Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS)
LINKS has been influential in ensuring that local and indigenous knowledge holders and their knowledge are included in responses to issues such as biodiversity assessment and management, climate change assessment and adaptation, natural disaster preparedness and sustainable development
"The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection at the National Gallery of Australia comprises over 7500 works and is the largest in the world.
"This web page represents the first stage of a long-term project to create an open access web log of all surviving colonial era documentation of Australian Indigenous song and dance as a specifically musical resource.
"Bringing together art from different times and across cultures, QAGOMA’s Australian Art Collection captures major historical moments from first contact to colonisation, and exploration to immigration. Bringing the Indigenous and contemporary Australian collections together with the Gallery’s historical holdings, this display emphasises stories about Queensland and Brisbane from the region’s own perspective.
The Indigenous content section contains links to Indigenous film and television, documentaries, dramas and protocols for working with image and sound produced by or about Indigenous people.
"The Australian Museums and Galleries Association 10-Year Indigenous Roadmap is committed to improving Indigenous engagement and employment. The Roadmap was developed for the museums and galleries sector, in consultation with the sector. It should be read in conjunction with the Project Report, and the Audit Report.
"This practical guide is essential reading for all filmmakers shooting in Australia. Research and written by lawyer Terri Janke, Pathways & Protocols provides advice about the ethical and legal issues involved in transferring Indigenous cultural material to the screen. Whether shooting in country or city, with an Indigenous cast or not, practitioners of film, TV and digital media projects are encouraged to recognise and respect Indigenous people's images, knowledge, stories and land in the production of audiovisual material."--Back cover.
Protocol guide published by the Australian Council for the Arts.
Brings together diverse, policy-relevant resources from a broad selection of key Indigenous policy topics.
The aim of the Clearinghouse is to promote discussion and disseminate relevant Indigenous justice information to government policy makers and those working in the Indigenous justice field.
The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) works to influence policy across the entire Australian Government.
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The Larrakia petition is one of the most important documents of Aboriginal peoples’ struggle for land rights in the early 1970s.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a call for constitutional change and structural reform in the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Australia.
These petitions from the Yolngu people of Yirrkala were the first traditional documents recognised by the Commonwealth Parliament and are thus the documentary recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law.
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In 2019 the Queensland Government committed to a reframed relationship with First Nations peoples looking for the way forward to treaty.
The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria is the elected voice for Aboriginal people and communities in future Treaty discussions.
Memorandum of Understanding paving the way for consultations between NT government and four NT Land Council's to begin with Aboriginal people about a Treaty.
ATNS provides an online portal for people seeking information on agreements with Indigenous peoples. ATNS began in 2002 as a research project focusing on treaties and agreement making with Indigenous Australians. Since then, the ATNS team has continued to investigate agreement making and maintain the ATNS database.
A global community of activist scholars, advancing the rights of Indigenous peoples through the application of traditional knowledge.
The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) is a global human rights organisation dedicated to promoting, protecting and defending Indigenous Peoples’ rights.
CLEAR is a collective of researchers from a wide range of disciplines (from ocean science to filmmaking), career levels (high school students to full professors), and skillsets. A feminist and anti colonial science laboratory, that understands introductions as a way to articulate account-abilities and make relations apparent.
A collective of scientists, artists, writers, landscape architects, architects, environmentalists, journalists, and community leaders dedicated to honouring reciprocal responsibilities to freshwater fish in watersheds locally and globally.
Māori culture is a big part of NZ’s identity, so respecting, preserving and promoting it is vital.
Te Pūnaha Matatini brings together ‘many faces’ – different disciplines, ways of thought, methods, and crucially, people – to define, and then solve, society’s thorny interconnected problems
NAFWS is a national tribal organization established informally during the early 1980's. NAFWS was incorporated in 1983 to develop a national communications network for the exchange of information and management techniques related to self-determined tribal fish and wildlife management.
Māori-led book presents rich seam of visual essays, papers, poetry and polemics which challenge the way we think about environment, land (whenua) and landscape in a changing world.
Maori customary use of native birds, plants and other traditional materials
Acknowledging content drawn from the University of Queensland Library guide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives