This document provides resources about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, culture, and stories, including: - Information about the 1967 referendum and resources looking at its impact. - Links to films, articles, and classroom resources about the 1967 referendum. - Reviews and information about books by Indigenous authors, including novels, picture books, and biographies. - Details and links to resources about Indigenous art, languages, and cultural activities. - Links to galleries, museums, and libraries with Indigenous collections and exhibitions.

1. padlet.com/boswellsam/ATSI_histories_and_culture
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories &
culture
Cross-curriculum priority
SAM BOSWELL APR 06, 2017 08:20AM
1967 Referendum
1967 Referendum
50th anniversary of constitutional amendment
Image from @Aust_parliament tweet stream
https://twitter.com/aust_parliament/status/868225234608
029696 ― SAM BOSWELL
Righting wrongs in the 1967 referendum
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SPLASH
Explore the feelings and experiences of
voting day in the 1967 referendum

2. Vote Yes trailer
Vote 'Yes' - A short film directed by Nick Waterman, featuring
Miranda Tapsell (The Sapphires) depicts the feelings and
experiences of voting day in the 1967 referendum. To purchase
the complete film for classr oom screening or library purchases,
please email: coordinator@flickerfest.com.au (cost $85 inc
postage and GST)
VIMEO
Myth busting
The three biggest myths of the
1967 referendum
Updated May 26, 2017 11:49:08 In
1967, 90.77 per cent of A ustralians
voted yes for a change that the y
believed would improve the lives of
Indigenous peoples. But as with any hist oric moment, there are
myths and mysteries about the r eferendum - and about what
people hoped it would accomplish and what it actually
achieved.
ABC NEWS
The 1967 referendum
Keri Phillips: Hello this is Rear
Vision with Keri Phillips. Excerpt
from documentary Day of the
Aborigine : Next Satur day may
fittingly be called the da y of the
Aborigine, for it is the first occasion on which we the A ustralian
people have for many years been called upon t o think so
seriously about our Aboriginal minority .
RADIO N ATIONAL
Digital classroom resource
The 1967 Referendum |
National Library of Australia
Members of Aboriginal and T orres
Strait Islander communities ar e
advised that this resource contains
names and images of deceased
people. Please be awar e that certain words, terms, or
descriptions may be culturally sensitive and may be considered
inappropriate today, but may have reflected the author 's and or
creator's attitudes or that of the period in which the y were
written.
NLA
Includes this Trove link http://www.nla.gov.au/digital-
classroom/year-10/the-1967-referendum/resource
― SAM BOSWELL
Research guide
the-1967-referendum
NLA
Archived website Mura Gadi
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/134560/20120609-
0000/www.nla.gov.au/muragadi/Asj.html ― SAM BOSWELL
Referendum remedies the
Constitutional treatment of
Aboriginal people
In 1967, in the biggest majority
ever recorded in an Australian
referendum, over 90% of
Australians voted to alter the Constitution so that Aboriginal
people would be included in the census.
ABC
Remembering the 1967 referendum
Change gonna come,
remembering the 1967
referendum
For Yanti Ropeyarn it was a
moment of pure joy, when the
significance of what was being
attempted on behalf of Aboriginal A ustralia half a century ago
was distilled into a single sentence in a hand-written note in the
palm of her hand.
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
1967 Referendum poster

3. Art & books
Six Seasons Indigenous Gallery
The Art Gallery of Western
Australia Website
The Art Gallery of Western
Australia is home to the State Art
Collection which includes works b y
Indigenous, Australian and
International Ar tists. The Gallery is open every day except
Tuesday, with free admission to most exhibitions.
ARTGALLERY
Rec-News-Ten-Important-Books
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Teacher Lesson Plan from the National Gallery of Australia
NGA-Resource-ATSI-YR7-8
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
My Girragundji
Literature study guide

4. LT7_My_Girragundji
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Miles Franklin award winning novel
Carpentaria - Reading Australia
I first read the fiction of Alexis
Wright when I was writing a thesis
on transgenerational trauma for my
doctorate at Western Sydney
University. I was exploring the wa ys
in which literature testifies to
transmissions of psy chic trauma,
which, in Unclaimed Experience
(Johns Hopkins Univ ersity Press,
1996), Cathy Caruth defines as the impact of an unassimilated
event or experience that mak es its presence known belatedly
and often illogically.
READING A USTRALI A
Follow the AusLit trail for Carpentaria
https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/6692904
― SAM BOSWELL
Digital technologies education
Celebrate indigenous stories & languages
Indigenous Literacy Day 2017
Today is Indigenous Literacy Day -
a national celebration of
Indigenous culture, stories,
language and literacy. The
Indigenous Literacy Foundation
(ILF) work with over 230 remote communities t o engage
children and their families in Indigenous liter acy by gifting new
culturally appropriate books to communities, through an early
literacy program, and by publishing books written b y the
Indigenous community.
CSER DIGI TAL TECHNOL OGIES EDUCA TION
Book reviews
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THEAUSTRALI AN
Tommy McRae Sketchbook: a collection conversation
Nicki Mackay-Sim, Curator of Pictures at the National Libr ary
celebrates the work and discusses the lif e of Aboriginal ar tist,
Tommy McRae through a sketchbook held in the collection
YOUTUBE
The Burnt Stick
The Burnt Stick , by Anthony Hill,
illustrated with black and white
drawings by Mark Sofilas.
Published by Penguin/Viking, 1994,
paperback edition Puffin Books
1996, 54 pages. Winner, Christian Children's Book of the Year,
Honour Book Childr en's Book Council of A ustralia. Buy Now
$16.95.
ANTHONYHILLBOOKS
Scaffolding literacy
https://scaffoldingliteracy.wikispaces.com/ le/view/The+Bu
rnt+Stick+-+Anthony+Hill+(Sue+Plaistowe).pdf
― SAM BOSWELL
Magabala books
Resources | Magabala Books
Magabala Books - A ustralia's
oldest independent Indigenous
publishing house.
MAGABALA

5. Reading Australia https://readingaustralia.com.au/?
s=magabala ― SAM BOSWELL
Teaching indigenous content
https://www.magabala.com/media/wysiwyg/pdf/Teaching
_Indigenous_Content_with_Magabala_Books.pdf
― SAM BOSWELL
Aboriginal Symbols and their
Meanings | Central Art
Aboriginal Art Store
The Copyright of all images and
documentation remains with
Sabine Haider. The Australian
Copyright Act protects all artists from unauthorised cop ying by
giving control over original works of ar t to the artist by law.
ABORIGIN ALARTSTORE
Welcome To Country by Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa
Kennedy
Welcome To Country by Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa K ennedy
YOUTUBE
Teacher notes
http://classroom.walkerbooks.com.au/welcome/
― SAM BOSWELL
Kimberley art then & now
Indigenous Artwork | Desert
River Sea | Art Gallery Of WA
The Art Gallery of WA presents
Desert River Sea: A growing online
resource that celebrates and
shares art by Indigenous artists of
the Kimberley. Supported by Rio Tinto.
DESERTRIVERSEA
Abandoned fishing gear becomes art
Meet the Aboriginal Community
Turning Abandoned Fishing
Gear into Art
Fishing nets will keep catching
things even when there's no one
there to haul them in. These " ghost
nets" are a ubiquitous form of pollution in t oday's oceans, where
they ensnare and kill marine life such as sea tur tles, dolphins,
and sharks.
NRDC
Australian Rules
Novel and lm resources
Teaching Resources
The ACTF is committed to
providing Australian children with
entertaining media made
especially for them.
THE AUSTRALI AN CHILDREN'S TELEVISION FOUND ATION
State library of Queensland
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language books
Virtual books
Access to the State Library of
Queensland's various Virtual
Books. Clients can 'turn' the pages
of online manuscripts, books,
music scores and photo albums
from the collections of the State Libr ary.
STATE LIBRAR Y OF QUEENSL AND
Selected further reading
Collaborating for Indigenous
Rights 1957-1973
Indigenous Rights / / Selected
further reading
INDIGENOUSRIGH TS
Sister Heart - Fremantle Press
' Morgan's writing ... entwines
images and symbols fr om
homeland and the childr en's home:
freshwater and saltwater; warmth
and cold; little sister and br other;
singing with family and for special guests; song lines, shadow
lines, lines on a map, barr ed lines. Morgan's imagery of birds
and flight gain significance as e vents unfold.'
FREMANTLE PRESS

6. Crow Country
A gripping time-slip adv enture, in
the tradition of Ruth Park's Playing
Beatie Bow. WINNER: CBCA Book
of the Year, Younger Readers, 2012
'Beginning and ending, alwa ys the
same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and
seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes fr om
Crow.
ALLENANDUNWIN
Year 9 work https://crowcountrywarriors.wordpress.com/
― SAM BOSWELL
Study guide
http://static.booktopia.com.au/pdf/9781742373959-1.pdf
― SAM BOSWELL
Visual Arts resources support
engagement
Curriculum based and culturally appropriate
Aboriginal Art Education
Resources - Japingka Gallery
This page presents quality
education resources that may be
useful for teachers in primar y and
secondary schools who would lik e
to incorporate information about A ustralian Aboriginal ar tists
and their art into lessons. The resources have either been
developed or reviewed by Japinkga Gallery.
JAPINGKA ABORIGIN AL ART GALLER Y
Aboriginal books
Latest Aboriginal A ustralian book
reviews.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Stronger futures in the remote art
economy
Awaye program - ABC radio national
Stronger futures in the remote
art economy
The art of remote Australia
wallpapers boardrooms and
government offices. But what' s the
connection between the corpor ate
world and the fragile bush economies that pr oduce that
unmistakable ar t?
RADIO N ATIONAL
The art of community: Imagination for inclusive
participation
Deborah Newenham-Coer tse talks about the ar twork we
commissioned her t o do which represents the Aurecon
Attributes.
YOUTUBE
Boori Monty Pryor | The
Literature Centre
Boori (Monty) Pryor is a storyteller,
writer and performer. He was born
in Townsville, North Queensland in
1950. His father is of the Birri-
gubba people from the Bowen region and his mother, from
Yarrabah near Cairns, is K unggandji.
THELITCENTRE
Picnic At Hanging Rock reinterpreted
A counterview to racialised
misogyny
In her Judith Wright Award-winning
poem, Alison Whittak er flips the
literary obsession with the fate of
the private school girls in Joan
Lindsay's novel Picnic At Hanging Rock. Suppose the girls wer e
black?
RADIO N ATIONAL
LoveOzYA on Twitter
It's National Reconciliation W eek
#NRW2017. Why don't you read
some of these great
#indigenousau YA titles this week?
#MyNextSteps
TWITTER
Reading Australia recommendations
Includes teacher resources

7. 6 Books for NAIDOC Week -
Reading Australia
There are two key weeks dedicated
to celebrating Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander culture and
history, and raising awareness
about the issues faced t oday by Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people. Reconciliation W eek is celebrated from 27 May
to 3 June and NAIDOC Week is celebrated 3-9 July.
READING A USTRALI A
Indigenous arts, culture and heritage
Australian Indigenous tools and
technology | australia.gov.au
Warning. Australian Stories may
contain the names and images of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people now deceased.
Australian Stories also contain
links to sites that may use images
of Aboriginal and Islander people
now deceased.
AUSTRALI A
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
writers and storytellers
BlackWords - About | AustLit:
Discover Australian Stories
AustLit
AUSTLIT
Storybooks in Aboriginal English
Celebrate WA - sharing culturally and contextually
appropriate texts
Education Department - Single
Sign-On
DET
Black Anzacs by Elizabeth
Shenstone on iBooks
Read a free sample or buy Black
Anzacs by Elizabeth Shenstone.
You can read this book with iBooks
on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or
Mac.
IBOOKS
TG_TheRabbits
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Review: Stolen Girl
Early in the 1900s, in rur al and
remote communities all o ver ,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children were stolen from
their families. They were taken in
the day, in the night, whilst alone, and sometimes ripp ed from
the very arms of their parents.
KIDS-BOOKREVIEW
ArtsEdge resources
About this resource
DCA
Indigenous resources
Magabala Books
Indigenous Resources in
Partnership with Magabala
Books - Reading Australia
Reading Australia has partnered
with Magabala Books t o create 15
resources for books, over the
course of 2017, by Indigenous authors and illustr ators. The first
three resources are now available. Magabala Books is a
publishing house that focuses on bringing Indigenous v oices
and talent to the forefront.
READING A USTRALI A
Picture book by Rosemary Sullivan

8. A day in the life of a ctional Aboriginal boy
Welcome
to the Lemonade Springs website,
devoted to the picture book Tom
Tom by Rosemary Sullivan and
illustrated by Dee Huxley, which
was published in Oct ober 2008 by
Working Title Press. About the Author >>
LEMONADESPRINGS
Teacher resources
http://www.lemonadesprings.com.au/html/teacher_resourc
es.html ― SAM BOSWELL
Biographies
Watch the official trailer
NAMATJIRA PROJECT - OFFICAL TRAILER 2017
See 'Namatjira Project' in cinemas with F an-Force.com -----
TAKING BOOKINGS FROM SEPTEMBER 2017 An extr aordinary
first-hand account of the international battle t o reclaim the
artwork and heritage of one of A ustralia's most important
Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was one
of those rare artists who actually changed the course of hist ory.
YOUTUBE
Reginald Saunders
First Aboriginal commissioned
o cer - Reginald Saunders |
The Australian War Memorial
Reginald Walter Saunders was
born a member of the Gunditjmar a
people, just outside F ramlingham
Aboriginal Reserve in the western district of Vict oria on 7
August 1920. His father, Chris Saunders, and uncle, W illiam
Reginald Rawlings, had ser ved with the first AIF.
AWM
Saunders: Aboriginal Warrior and Australian Soldier:
http://press-
les.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p72311/pdf/article0510.pd
f ― SAM BOSWELL
The importance of Dr Who's companion
I can't explain how excited I was
when Doctor Who got a black
companion | IndigenousX
I can't remember a time when I
wasn't a Whovian. Even when the
original series of Doct or Who came
to an end in 1989, I continued adding t o my collection of
memorabilia, reading the novels and hoping that one day, the
show might come back.
THE GUARDIAN
Len Waters
First Aboriginal Australian military aviator
Biography - Leonard Victor
(Len) Waters - Indigenous
Australia
Samuel Furphy, 'Waters, Leonard
Victor (Len) (1924-1993)',
Australian Dictionary of Biography,
National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
http://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/waters-leonard-victor-len-
24662/text33318, accessed 4 A ugust 2017.
ANU
Encyclopedia of world biography
Oodgeroo Noonuccal Biography
- life, family, childhood,
children, name, story, history,
school, mother, born, year
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (pronounced
UJ-uh-roo nu-NUH-kl) was born
Kathleen Jean Mar y Ruska on November 3, 1920, in Minjerriba,
also known as Nor th Stradbroke Island. Stradbroke, unlike other
Aboriginal areas, managed to maintain an unusually high le vel
of tribal culture. Oodgeroo's father, Edward, was of the
Noonuccal tribe (sometimes spelled Noonuckle, Nunukul , or
Nunuccal ) and her mother , Lucy, was from inland.
NOTABLEBIOGRAPHIES
From Australian Dictionary of Biography
http://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/noonuccal-oodgeroo-18057
― SAM BOSWELL

9. Indigenous Australia
PUBLICATION: Nova Peris with Ian
Heads, Nova: My Story: the
autobiography of Nova Peris,
Sydney, ABC Books for the
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, 2003 SEX: Female
BIRTH DATE: 25 February 1971
BIRTH PLACE: Darwin, Northern
Territory FIRST LANGUAGE: English
SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES: Fannie Bay, Darwin: Where Nova's
family lived in a Housing Commission unit of building called
"The Kurringal Flats."
ANU
Deadly Vibe article
http://www.deadlyvibe.com.au/2007/11/nova-peris/
― SAM BOSWELL
Enough Rope interview
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s822569.
htm ― SAM BOSWELL
Biography - Catherine (Cathy)
Freeman - Indigenous Australia
'Freeman, Catherine (Cathy)
(1973-?)', Indigenous A ustralia,
National Centre of Biography,
Australian National University,
http://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/freeman-catherine-cathy-
15410/text26618, accessed 1 A ugust 2017.
ANU
https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/cathy-freeman
― SAM BOSWELL
Adam Goodes
What drives Goodes' racism
crusade
THE allure of football was a slow
burn for the young Adam Goodes.
Sure, there was the day at Elizabeth
Oval in Adelaide's northern suburbs
when he marvelled at the agility and gr ace of Central Districts'
Indigenous star Gilber t McAdam.
ADELAIDENOW
Ricky Morris | Australians at
War Film Archive
This interview was filmed for the
television series Australians at War
in 1999-2000.
UNSW
ABC radio interview
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/12/09/3387800.h
tm ― SAM BOSWELL
reg-saunders-an-indigenous-
war-hero
NLA
Australian Dictionary of Biography
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/saunders-reginald-walter-
15909 ― SAM BOSWELL
Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda
First case of an Aboriginal Australian to be heard in court
Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda - National
Archives of Australia,
Australian Government
Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, a Yolngu
elder from northeast Arnhem Land,
was found guilty of the mur der of a
white policeman and sentenced t o death in 1934. An appeal t o
the High Court made this the first case of an Aboriginal
Australian to be heard in that court.
NAA
Charlie Perkins
Biography
Indigenous Australia
PUBLICATION: Charles Perkins, A
Bastard Like Me, Ure Smith, 1975,
Sydney SEX: Male BIRTH DATE:
C.1936-7 BIRTH PLACE: Alice
Springs FIRST LANGUAGE: English
SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES: Alice Springs: Charles was born on a
table in the Alice Spring' s Telegraph Station (when it was the
Half-caste Institution'.
ANU
Freedom ride bus tour through rural NSW
http://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/stories/2012/01/19
/3414788.htm ― SAM BOSWELL
Elder statesman of the Aboriginal rights
movement

10. One Blood: the story of William
Cooper
William Cooper is counted among
the righteous who sa ved Jews
during the Holocaust. In late 1938,
this elder statesman of the
Aboriginal rights mo vement delivered a letter of protest to the
German consulate in Melbourne as synagogues burned acr oss
Germany in the aftermath of the infamous Night of Br oken
Glass, or Kristallnacht.
RADIO N ATIONAL
Sydney Morning Herald account
http://www.smh.com.au/national/half-a-world-away-
sound-of-breaking-glass-found-an-echo-20121114-
29cm1.html ― SAM BOSWELL
National Museum of Australia pro le
http://indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/william_
cooper ― SAM BOSWELL
Maralinga Atomic Bomb test Survivors
In the 1950's Australia was the location for the testing of British
nuclear weapons. Her e two survivors, Yani Lester and Avon
Hudson remember the tests. Yani was a young man living with
his community in the deser t and Avon wasd an Australian
serviceman seconded t o the programme.
YOUTUBE
Aboriginal warrior led resistance
1792
Pemulwuy
Decided measures therefore
became necessar y to prevent the
out-settlers from being robbed and
plundered, and to restore the
natives to a friendly intercourse.
With these views (founded on the opinions of the principal
officers coinciding with mine), I ga ve orders for every person
doing their utmost t o bring Pemulwye in either dead or aliv e ...
NMA
Joe Williams Celebrates
Indigenous Culture In The Face
Exhibition
Former Rabbitohs halfback Joe
Williams has celebrated his
heritage by taking part in an
upcoming exhibition highlighting inspir ational Indigenous
people with a local Sy dney photographer. His portrait and story
will be showcased at our Round 17 Indigenous Round
celebrations before officially opening in Redf ern on July 5th.
NRL CLUBS
First Aboriginal press photographer
Mervyn Bishop blazed trail as
Australia's rst Aboriginal press
photographer
Updated July 02, 2017 08:45:57
Mervyn Bishop's iconic 1975 photo
ofGough Whitlam pouring r ed earth
into Gurindji leader Vincent Lingiari' s hand in the aftermath of
the Wave Hill strike only exists because Bishop insisted on a
reshoot. "The first version didn't look good.
ABC NEWS
Ted Penny
Collaborating for Indigenous
Rights 1957-1973
Ted was the first Western
Australian qualified Indigenous
teacher and the Western Australian
state secretary of the Federal
Council for Aboriginal Adv ancement in 1964. He went t o Sydney
for the launch of the national petition for a r eferendum in 1962
and was active in the West in support of a Yes vote.
INDIGENOUSRIGH TS
Fanny Balbuk
A story told with Adobe Spark
ADOBE SPARK
Biography - Daisy Bindi -
Australian Dictionary of
Biography
Michal Bosworth, 'Bindi, Daisy
(1904-1962)', Australian Dictionary
of Biography, National Centre of
Biography, Australian National University,
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biogr aphy/bindi-daisy-9505/text16733,
published first in har dcopy 1993, accessed online 30 June 2017.
ANU

11. Zach's Ceremony
Documentary about initiation rites
Film about Aboriginal identity
strikes a chord in New York
Updated October 26, 2016 15:40:46
A film about a young man's
initiation ceremony at a remote
Aboriginal community in
Queensland has received a standing ovation at the Margaret
Mead Film Festival in New York. Zach's Ceremony, directed by
Aaron Petersen and produced by Alec Doomadgee an d Sarah
Linton, was filmed over a 10-year period.
ABC NEWS
8 indigenous war heroes you didn't learn
about in school
8 war heroes you didn't learn
about in school
Pemulwuy was one of the earliest
recorded resistance fighters of the
Frontier Wars. A Bidgigal man of
the Darug nation he r eportedly had
a clubbed foot, suggesting he ma y have been a Carradhy (clever
man). In Port Jackson in 1790 he spear ed John McIntyre, the
gamekeeper of Governor Phillip, who later died of his injuries.
NITV
Reg Saunders: an Indigenous
War Hero - Reading Australia
This is a non-fiction book based on
historical events from the Second
World War and on events in the life
of one significant Aboriginal
Australian, Reg Saunders, who was the first Indigenous soldier
to be promoted into the commissioned r anks of the Australian
army.
READING A USTRALI A
Role models and activists
Famous Aboriginal people,
activists & role models
Who's missing? Let me know if y ou
think there's a famous Aboriginal
Australian missing from this page!
David Unaipon on a 50-dollar note.
Some notes show his name at the bott om, some don't. If you
live in Australia, do you know that you're probably carrying a
famous Aboriginal man in y our wallet?
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Podcast
Virtual reality, history and indigenous experience - elder
tells his story
Nyarri Nyarri Morgan: Virtual
Reality, History and Indigenous
Experience | ACMI
A talk with Martu elder and
'Collisions' storyteller, Nyarri Nyarri
Morgan.
ACMI
Indigenous: Army Private Barbara Johnson
Indigenous Australians have played a significant par t in our
military history over the past centur y and we are proud to
continue this involvement with many Indigenous peop le serving
in the Navy, Army and Air Force as full and par t-time members.
YOUTUBE
Indigenous Australian biographies
Australian Dictionary of
Biography
© Copyright Australian Dictionary
of Biography, 2006-2017
ANU
Listen to the full ABC Radio National
documentary
The end of the beginning
In the first instalment of a thr ee-
part oral history series from the
central wheatbelt region of
Western Australia, we hear stories
from the living memor y of
Aboriginal people.
RADIO N ATIONAL

12. Aboriginal soldier from Albany served in
Boer war
Hamilton historian proves
Aboriginal soldier served in
Boer War
A Hamilton-based historian has, for
the first time, uncovered evidence
that an indigenous A ustralian
soldier served in the Boer War. Peter Bakker has spent the past
five years researching and documenting the contribution of
indigenous Australians in past conflicts. During that time, the
number of aboriginal soldiers r ecognised by the Australian War
Memorial as having served the nation has sur ged.
ABC
Conquering international figure skating
Breaking the ice: The young
Indigenous man who broke the
rules of gure skating
How a young Indigenous man and
a Russian girl broke all the rules, to
conquer international figur e
skating. By Kerrie Armstrong Pictures by John Veage 15 May
2017 Reading time: 22 minutes "I want t o show them that it
doesn't have to be Russia, Canada, America, China th at are
winning all the time."
NEWS
The Sapphires: where are they
now?
From left to right: Lois Peeler,
Naomi Mayers, Laurel Robinson
and Beverley Briggs. Image Credit:
Hopscotch Films L AUREL
ROBINSON, Beverly Briggs and Naomi Ma yers are the three
original members of the Sapphir es, the first popular Aboriginal
all-female group. The movie, based on the band's true story, was
the most successful A ustralian film of 2012.
AUSTRALI AN GEOGRAPHIC
Betrayal:Text only version
Use the graphic enlarge button at
the bottom right to see a larger
picture, then close it by clicking on
the 'close' button at the top. Use
the 'screen enlarge' icon at the top
right to see a full screen view. You'll need to press the Escape
key to go back to normal size.
NMA
Indigenous history
Pioneering nurse Marion Leane Smith
The fascinating life of WWI's
only serving Indigenous
woman, Marion Leane Smith
Nestled in the records of the Queen
Alexandra's Imperial Military
Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNS)
is Dharug woman, Marion Leane Smith, the only identified
Aboriginal Australian woman to serve in the First World War.
However, rather than volunteering as a par t of the Australian
Imperial Force (AIF), Marion was among the 3,141 Canadian
nurses who worked overseas and on the home fr ont.
NITV
Historical inquiry explores different
perspectives
Who was Woolarawarre Bennelong?
Finding Bennelong |
FINDINGBENNEL ONG
Black diggers
Our Mob, Serving Country 100 Years and
Beyond
Stories of indigenous service men and women
Our Mob, Serving Country 100
years and beyond
For more than a century, Australian
men and women ha ve served in the
Defence Force to protect our
country in wars, conflicts and
peace keeping operations.
DVA
Indigenous defence service
Indigenous defence service |
The Australian War Memorial
In the 1980s the Depar tment of
Defence began collecting
information about Indigenous
heritage, and these figur es show
that the number of Indigenous men and women ser ving in the
Australian Defence Force has been increasing since the 1990s.
AWM

13. A brief history of indigenous Australians
at war
Indigenous Australians at war
WARNING: Aboriginal and T orres
Strait Islanders are warned that the
following page may contain
images of deceased persons. A
brief history of Indigenous
Australians at War by John Moremon Indigenous A ustralians
have served in virtually every conflict and peace k eeping
mission in which Australia has participated since the star t of
last century - from the Boer War to East Timor, and most likely
Afghanistan also.
DVA
Indigenous servicemen: their
contribution
Indigenous servicemen: their
contribution
The 2/7th Infantry Battalion,
including Sgt Reg Saunders, wait at
a troop train in QLD, 1943. (Credit:
Australian War Memorial) IN JUNE
1941 GERMAN troops took control of the Greek Island of Crete
where Reginald Saunders was ser ving as an non-com missioned
officer in the 2/7th Battalion.
AUSTRALI AN GEOGRAPHIC
Commemoration: Aboriginal
People and Torres Strait
Islanders
A poster produced by 'Australia
Remembers 1945-1995' t o
commemorate the role of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second W orld War.
The background image is a phot ograph of Aboriginal fighter
pilot Sergeant Leonard Waters, 78 Squadron RAAF, in the
cockpit of his P40 Kittyhawk 'Black Magic '.
AWM
Treated like second class citizens
Heroic ANZACs who were
treated like second class
citizens
WARNING: Aboriginal and T orres
Strait Islander readers should be
aware that the following ar ticle
contains names and images of deceased people. THEY fought
and died for Australia but were treated like second class
citizens upon returning home. At least 1000 Aborigina l and
Torres Strait Islander soldiers ser ved in World War I, according
to the Australian War Memorial.
NEWSCOM AU
Douglas Grant
Prisoner of War captured by Germans in 1917
Experimenting on Anzacs,
inciting jihad: Inside a POW
camp unlike any other
Posted August 08, 2017 11:23:11
One hundred years ago an
Australian Aboriginal soldier,
Douglas Grant, found himself in a prisoner of war camp south of
Berlin. Captured at the Battle of Bullecour t in April 1917, he had
already spent months at other camps acr oss Germany doing
hard labour and working in mines.
ABC NEWS
Download the audio via Radio National
We will remember them
Even though many wer e denied
basic freedoms and other
citizenship rights it's now
estimated that a thousand
Aboriginal men ser ved in the First
World War, from Gallipoli to the Light Horse in E gypt and even
the Australian Tunnelling Company on the W estern Front.
RADIO N ATIONAL
http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2014/08/forgotten-
anzacs-black-diggers-wwi ― SAM BOSWELL

14. George and Frederick Beale
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Chapter 1 Fighters From the Fringe
http://lryb.aiatsis.gov.au/PDFs/hall_ch1.pdf ― SAM BOSWELL
Explore BlackWords -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders in War | AustLit:
Discover Australian Stories
AustLit
AUSTLIT
Indigenous histories https://indigenoushistories.com/
― SAM BOSWELL
Back to Being Black | ACMI
Generator
John explains the camar aderie and
equality that existed among the
troops in World War I: "The men in
that war fought together against
the enemy. Australians side by side.
ACMI
Boer war
Rare photo of indigenous involvement
Rare photo of Indigenous
involvement in the Boer War
A war raged across South Africa
between Britain and the two Dutch-
Afrikaner, or Boer, Republics of the
Transvaal and the Orange Free
States from 10 October 1899 to the end of May 1902.
AUSTRALI AN INSTI TUTE OF ABORIGIN AL AND T ORRES ST RAIT
ISLANDER STUDIES
Indigenous Australians at War
Shrine of Remembrance |
Melbourne - Indigenous
Australians at war from the
Boer War to the present
SHRINE
'We thought we'd be treated
differently': Indigenous soldiers
still ghting for recognition
Indigenous soldiers ha ve led the
national Anzac Day march for the
first time this year. Advocates say
it is an overdue acknowledgement after thousands of returning
Indigenous veterans were shunned by society, not allowed in the
RSL or offered assistance by Legacy.
ABC NEWS
The Australian War Memorial
The Black Prince of Gallipoli |
The Australian War Memorial
The curious epithet giv en to
Charles Melbourne Johnst on,
'Black Prince', was attached to him
at Gallipoli, according to the oral
history passed down through two branches of the Johnston
family: Rachel Hindle (nee Johnst on, sister of C.M.
AWM
Behind the News
Indigenous Veterans
As part of Reconciliation W eek,
many people gather ed for special
ceremonies to remember the
service and sacrifice of A ustralia's
Indigenous Veterans. We caught up
with some school kids who v olunteered to help out at one of
these ceremonies after creating a book that tells the st ories of
Indigenous veterans from their area.
ABC

15. Teacher Resource - indigenous veterans
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Secondary resource
Indigenous Service secondary
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Primary resource
Indigenous Service - primary
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Letters home from Aboriginal diggers
ABC Radio National
'Jus a card': letters home from
Aboriginal diggers
Letters home from Aboriginal men
who served in the Australian
Imperial Force during the First
World War are extremely rare. 100
years after a militar y order revoked a discretionary ban on
Aboriginal men ser ving in the so-called Gr eat War, we bring you
the stories of three of the men told through their letters home.
RADIO N ATIONAL
Indigenous Australians contributed to
military history since the Boer War
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander
DVA's Reconciliation Action Plan
will map our journe y towards
supporting increased opportunities
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander staff, increasing the cultural competency of all of our
staff and ensuring that we pr ovide culturally sensitive and
appropriate services for Aboriginal and T orres Strait Islander
veterans.
DVA
The Black Diggers Project
Sydney Festival 2013
ISSUU

16. Challenging the Anzac narrative
Black Diggers: Challenging the ANZAC narrative
Black Diggers: Challenging the ANZ AC narrative Subscribe to
the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD The cr eators of a
new play portraying the experiences of Indigenous ser vicemen
in the first world war sit down with Guar dian Australia before
taking on the Sydney festival.
YOUTUBE
Black Diggers
Black Diggers 25-28 Mar ch 2015 THE UNTOLD STORY OF
WW1'S BLACK DIGGERS REMEMBERED . "Some of the most
powerful and moving live theatre you're likely to see this year." ★
★ ★ ★ ★ Daily Telegraph One hundred years ago, a bullet from
an assassin's gun sparked a war that ignited the globe.
YOUTUBE
Indigenous soldiers
remembered: the research
behind Black Diggers
In August 2012, I was invited b y the
Sydney Festival to work with
Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director of
Queensland Theatre Company, to assist in developing Black
Diggers, currently playing as part of the 2014 Sydney Festival.
THE CONVERSA TION
BLACK DIGGERS
One hundred years ago, in 1914, a
bullet from an assassin's gun in
Sarajevo sparked a war that ignited
the globe. Patriotic young men all
over the world lined up t o join the
fight - including...
AUSTRALI ANPLAYS.ORG
Article
Who were the Black Diggers?
"'We're not citizens, yet we're willing
to die for this place, we 're willing to
die for non-Indigenous A ustralians.'
Have a think about that one." - Gary
Oakley, Indigenous Liaison Officer ,
Australian War Memorial.
NITV
Related story of a commissioned art work
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/living-
black/article/2015/04/20/story-behind-sydneys-bullet-
sculpture ― SAM BOSWELL
Untold stories of Western Australian
Aboriginal servicemen at Gallipoli
Download the book
They Served With Honour
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE

17. Black Anzacs by Elizabeth
Shenstone on iBooks
Read a free sample or buy Black
Anzacs by Elizabeth Shenstone.
You can read this book with iBooks
on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or
Mac.
IBOOKS
Calendar & curriculum
Calendar of commemorative days
ATSI Cross-Curriculum Priority
by sboswellhyde
TOUCH this image to discover its
story. Image tagging power ed by
ThingLink
THINGLINK
Aboriginal%20and%20Torres%20Strait%20Islander%20Signi cant%20Dates%202017%20with%20explanation.pdf
PDF document
NEPCP
Aboriginal calendar of
signi cant events
When you look at significant e vents
for Aboriginal people y ou'll notice
that these document their fight for
rights, land and recognition. It is
also a history of sadness, loss and denial.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Illustrations of practice
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Histories and Cultures
illustrations of practice
The Australian Curriculum
AUSTRALI ANCURRICUL UM
All illustrations
https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/resources/aborigi
nal-and-torres-strait-islander-histories-and-cultures-
illustrations-of-practice/illustrations-of-practice/
― SAM BOSWELL
Aboriginal Education - The
Department of Education
The Department of Education is
committed to improving the
educational achievements of
Aboriginal students in schools and
to enhancing the knowledge and understanding of all W estern
Australian students about the hist ory, heritage and cultur es of
Aboriginal Australians.
DET
Western Australian curriculum
Scope and sequence document for HASS PP-10
Word document
PADLET DRIVE
Curriculum Resources
Use Narragunnawali's early
learning, primary and secondary
curriculum resources to promote
reconciliation and to strengthen
children and students' knowledge
and understanding of Aboriginal and T orres Strait Islander
histories, cultures and contributions. The r esources can be used
as they are or adapted to suit the local community co ntext.
NARRAGUNNAWALI

18. Lesson plans - Aboriginal
Education - The Department of
Education
Introduction to the lesson plan
section of the APAC website.
DET
Ways of Being: Year 8 English resource
http://globalwords.edu.au/units/Indigenous_JSY8_html/in
dex.html ― SAM BOSWELL
The constitution
Tjukurpa: ve days in Uluru
Tjukurpa: five days in Uluru. Alex
Ellinghausen and Michael Gor don
share their stunning visual journe y
from Uluru, the hear t of the nation.
#Tjukurpa
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Constitutional recognition
Homepage - RECOGNISE
Welcome to the RECOGNISE
homepage. Sign up t o support
recognition of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples in
our Constitution
RECOGNISE
Referendum council - acknowledging
first peoples
What do you think?
Law Council of Australia releases its
submission
Referendum Council discussion paper
Reconciliation can be advanced
by constitutional change
On the eve of National
Reconciliation Week, the Law
Council of Australia has released
its submission to the Referendum
Council's Discussion Paper calling for constitutional change t o
meet the aspirations and wishes of Aboriginal and T orres Strait
Islander peoples.
LAWCOUNCIL
2017 National Constitutional Convention
Uluru statement
Uluru_Statement_From_The_Heart_0.PDF
PDF document
REFERENDUMCOUNCIL
First Nations convention
Explainer: why 300 Indigenous
leaders are meeting at Uluru
this week
Around 300 Aboriginal people and
Torres Strait Islanders will gather
from today at Uluru to hold a First
Nations Convention. Running over four days, the meeting is the
culmination of 12 regional dialogues held acr oss the country on
the constitutional recognition of Indigenous A ustralians.
THE CONVERSA TION
Uluru summit
Discussing constitutional recognition

19. The dance that could be the
spark for a historic pact at
Uluru
They came a very long way to
ignite a conversation with dance
and a resolute message of quiet
determination from Galarrwuy Yunupingu, the man th ey call the
ngurrunga, or leader. Almost 30 years ago, Mr Yunupingu
presented the Barunga Statement t o then prime minister Bob
Hawke, calling for a treaty, or compact, between blac k and white
Australia.
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
First Nations regional dialogue Hobart
First Nations regional dialogue Hobar t on the 9th - 11th
December 2016
YOUTUBE
Perth regional dialogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=-4BEKurzAas ― SAM BOSWELL
Culture
My Grandmother's Lingo
'My Grandmother's Lingo', a voice-
activated interactive animation that
tells the story of a young Aboriginal
woman who is fighting t o save her
Indigenous language.
SBS
Learning about shame
Shows - ABC ME
Jaral, an Aboriginal girl fr om
Noongar country shares just how
embarrassing, tough and fun it is to
be a 12-year-old girl alongside
cousins Aaliyah and Sharmika and
together they share what makes them "shame".
ABC
Still Our Country
We Yolngu, we are proud of our
culture, of who we are. Our culture
makes us strong. We Yolngu, we
belong to our country and our
country belongs to us. Our country
makes us strong.
STILLOURCOUN TRY
Indigenous peoples: Ways of
being | Global Words |
ABC Indigenous has br oadcast and
community content. Students can
interactively learn about the
relationship of the Bur arra people
to their land and hear Bur arra language and Aboriginal English
at Burrara Gathering. Read Aboriginal st ories from astronomy;
find animated Dreamtime stories at Dust Echoes, or illustrated
stories from the ABC's .
GLOBALWORDS
Heritage Perth
The Noongar view
HASSchats Perth The Noongar View Heritage Perth
Uploaded by Heritage Perth on 2017-08-03.
YOUTUBE
Bush tucker
Food Safari - A Look At Bush
Tucker
Bring the world to your kitchen with
SBS Food. We have recipes and
dinner ideas from more than 100
cuisines, plus how t o articles, step-
by-step video tutorials and blogs.
FOOD

20. Cultural connection tours for mental
health
Aboriginal meditation is being
used to heal minds in the
modern world
Updated August 12, 2017 12:51:07
From the tiny community of
Nauiyu, south of Dar win, Miriam
Rose Baumann is pr eparing to meet her next group of interstate
visitors. "It's not a tour where you have to pack your bags and
get ready to jump on a bus that's going to be leaving at 6:00am
in the morning, to take you to places and be ther e at certain
times to do things," Ms Baumann said.
ABC NEWS
Online gateway to The Little Red Yellow
Black Book:
An introduction to indigenous Australia
The Little Red Yellow Black
Website-an introduction to
Indigenous Australia
A site for anyone wanting an
introduction to the rich history and
contemporary culture of
Indigenous Australia
AIATSIS
WA Museum collection
Aboriginal cultures collection |
Western Australian Museum
The representation of Western
Australian Aboriginal cultur es has
been a significant focus of the
Museum since its inception in
1892. The early collections r eflect hunting and gathering
lifestyles, and personal adornment of the peoples of the South
West, Pilbara, Desert and Kimberley regions.
WESTERN A USTRALI AN MUSEUM
Aboriginal Culture
Australia's Aboriginal culture
probably represents the oldest
surviving culture in the world, with
the use of stone tool technology
and painting with red ochre
pigment dating to at least 50,000 years ago.
ABORIGIN ALCULTURE
Sharing Noongar culture
Kaartdijin Noongar
Kaartdijin in Noongar means
'knowledge'. Noongar people ha ve
lived in the south-west of W estern
Australia for more than 45,000
years. The aim of the Kaar tdijin
website is to share the richness of our knowledge, cultur e and
history in order to strengthen our community and pr omote wider
understanding.
NOONGARCULTURE
Aboriginal culture
Facts, statistics and contempor ary
infos about Aboriginal cultur e and
history in Australia.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
National Geographic article
First Australians
This article appears in the June
2013 issue of National Geogr aphic
magazine. A finger acr oss the
throat and a glance seawar d.
That's the signal. The two men grip
their spears, hand-car ved from stringybark trees, and walk
barefoot over the red soil to the water's edge.
MAGAZINE
Dreamtime
Aboriginal astronomy
ABC online education - ABC
Splash
4000+ educational games, videos
and teaching resources for schools
and students. Free Primary and
Secondary resources covering
history, science, English, maths and
more
SPLASH
dreaming
WWW.AUSTRALI A.GOV.AU
Interview with Pauline McLeod

21. Aboriginal perspective of storytelling
Pauline McLeod, NSW -
Aboriginal Perspective
Interview with Pauline McLeod,
Aboriginal Storyteller - by Helen
McKay. Taped in Sydney and
published in Feb-March'98 issue of
Telling Tales. (Pauline McLeod is also a st oryteller on ABC
Television's PLAYSCHOOL). Helen: Every culture has a
storyteller - how is the Aboriginal st oryteller chosen? Pauline:
Traditionally, the storyteller was born into the role.
AUSTRALI AN STORYTELLING - AR TICLES, ST ORIES, IN TERVIEWS,
CONTRIBUTIONS
The Moon
Aboriginal Dreamtime Story: The
Moon
NEWAGEMULTIMEDIA
Our-Digital-Classroom - Dream
Time stories
TES Teach. Get it on the web or
iPad!
WIKISPACES
ABC iview : Dust Echoes -
Mermaid Story
Dust Echoes - Mermaid Story : One
day a song man goes wandering
and later finds himself living under
a waterfall with mermaids. As time
passes he begins to miss his family and he has t o decide
whether to stay or return to them.
ABC IVIEW
The Wagalak Sisters
Animated for the ABC's Dust Echoes project 2005 Direction:
Dave Jones Animation: Da ve Jones, Jill McLeod, Al M AcInnes,
Trevor Katsup Audio: Luke Jurevicius Writing: Michael Wagner
VIMEO
Teacher's study guide https://abccommercial-production-
aws.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/study-
guide/assets/sg_dustechoesthewagalak.pdf ― SAM BOSWELL
Morning star - Dust Echoes
There are stages that must be gone thr ough in respecting the
dead...
YOUTUBE
Teacher's study guide
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/studyGuides/DustEchoes
-MorningStar-StudyGuide.pdf ― SAM BOSWELL
Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories - YouTube
Sign in now to see your channels and recommendations!
YOUTUBE
What is the 'Dreamtime' or the
'Dreaming'?
English can never capture what
'Dreaming' or 'Dreamtime' is all
about. The Dreaming and its
stories are linked to the creation
process and spiritual ancest ors, and still around today.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS

22. Image?t=a exif,c ll,dpr auto,g auto,h 524,w
1000&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.abc.net.au%2fdustechoes%2 mg%2ftom
lewis
Dreaming stories online
Dust Echoes Dust Echoes is a
series of twelve beautifully
animated dreamtime stories from
Central Arnhem Land, telling
stories of love,...
SMORE
6 Aboriginal dreaming stories
ABC Radio National - Sharing
our Stories
Awaye! presents six Aboriginal
dreaming stories. These stories are
told to children to teach them
about their ancestors, the spirit
world and their place in that world. These six st ories from
Northern Australia tell of creatures such as mermaids, de vil-
devils, whistle ducks and blue-t ongue lizards.
ABC
Sharing The Dreaming on the
App Store
Read reviews, compare customer
ratings, see screenshots and learn
more about Sharing The Dr eaming.
Download Sharing The Dr eaming
and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
APP STORE
Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories,
New Voices
Ancient Stories, New Voices. Dust
Echoes is a series of twelv e
animated dreamtime stories from
Central Arnhem Land in Nor thern Australia
ABC
The Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent par ticipates in the creation of the world in
so many of the Aboriginal Myths of Dr eamtime. Higher Quality:
http://www.ozjthomas.com/dreamtime.html
YOUTUBE
Health
Aboriginal health in Australia
To Aboriginal people, health is
about so much mor e than simply
not being sick. It's about getting a
balance between physical, mental,
emotional, cultural and spiritual
health.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Resources |
kidsmatter.edu.au
KidsMatter was developed by
mental health professionals and
education and childcar e staff in
response to the high rates of school-age childr en with mental
health difficulties and the pr oblems they face getting help. It is
is a partnership between education and health sect ors and is
funded by the Australian Government and beyondblue.
KIDSMATTER
HealthInfoBytes " Our work "
About " Australian Indigenous
HealthInfoNetHealthInfoBytes "
Australian Indigenous
HealthInfoNet
This series of shor t film about
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health pr ovides 'byte-sized'
information about a specific health t opics, helping you learn
something new in just a f ew minutes. If you want to learn more,
follow the links to the part of our website that pr ovides
comprehensive information on the t opic.
ECU

23. History
Elder calls Rottnest Island prisoners
Australia’s forgotten patriots
Rottnest's Aboriginal prisoners
are Australia's forgotten
patriots: elder
Updated November 17, 2017
10:40:19 It is time for A ustralia to
face the truth about hundr eds of
Aboriginal prisoners who died on Rottnest Island in the 19th
century and are buried in unmarked graves, a leading Aboriginal
academic says. WARNING: This story contains images of
Aboriginal people who ha ve died.
ABC NEWS
The Aboriginal history of Kings Park
Botanic Gardens and Parks
Authority - Aboriginal History
For thousands of years Aboriginal
people have been visiting Moor o
Katta or Kaarta Gar-up, two of the
many names for Mount Eliza, the
highest point of Kings P ark. Nyoongar is the generic term for
Indigenous people of the southwest of W estern Australia.
BGPA
Aboriginal history timeline
(2000 - today)
History Explore a timeline of
historic Aboriginal events from
2000 to today. In the past,
Indigenous history has been
written by non-Indigenous people fr om a non-Indigenous
perspective.-Pat Dudgeon, Bardi woman, former head of the
Aboriginal Studies Centr e, Curtin University, Perth, Western
Australia [3] March: Australia appears before the United Nations
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Calendar of historical events
BlackWords - Calendar of
Historical Events | AustLit:
Discover Australian Stories
AustLit
AUSTLIT
Indigenous Australia timeline 1500-1900
Indigenous Australia Timeline -
1500 to 1900 - Australian
Museum
A timeline of events relating to
Indigenous Australians from the
time of contact with Indonesian
trepang fishermen c.1500-1700
until 1900.
AUSTRALI ANMUSEUM
Virtual reading room
Aboriginal history
Results - Vrroom
NAA
65 000 years of history
Buried tools and pigments tell a
new history of humans in
Australia for 65,000 years
The question of when people first
arrived in Australia has been the
subject of lively debate among
archaeologists, and one with impor tant consequences for the
global story of human evolution. Australia is the end point of
early modern human migr ation out of Africa, and sets the
minimum age for the global dispersal of humans.
THE CONVERSA TION
First Footprints
Australia's history told through oral stories, archaeology, art
and archive lm
First Footprints
ABC

24. Australian Aboriginal history
timeline
History Australian Aboriginal
history is the only history that
grows both ways-forward into the
present and backwards into the
past as new scientific methods
indicate that archaeological sites
are much older than originally
thought.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Australia/ Invasion/ Survival Day
History of celebration and contestation
Australia Day, Invasion Day,
Survival Day: a long history of
celebration and contestation
This is part of a series examining
Australian national identity,
especially around the ongoing
debate about Australia Day. Alongside the celebr ation, Australia
Day also has a long hist ory of commemoration and
contestation, and this y ear is no different. In Western Australia,
Fremantle council's proposal to hold an alternativ e and
culturally inclusive citizenship ceremony on Januar y 28 was
condemned by the federal government.
THE CONVERSA TION
The Frontier Wars
1840s | My Place for teachers
On 20 January 1842, two
Tasmanian Aboriginal men,
Tunnerminnerwait and
Maulboyheenner, became the first
people to be executed as the result
of a judicial finding in Melbourne. The y had been found guilty of
murdering two whalers, r egardless of scant evidence and their
inability to provide statements to the court or to defend
themselves.
MYPLACE
The Pinjarra Massacre
Creative Instinct Saturday 2
June 2012
Programs beginning with 0
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Programs beginning with D Pr ograms beginning with E
Programs beginning with F Pr ograms beginning with G
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Programs beginning
RADIO N ATIONAL
Mandurah Community Museum account:
http://www.mandurahcommunitymuseum.org/downloads/P
injarra%20Massacre.pdf ― SAM BOSWELL
Digital tour about gold rush Ballarat
Brings to life the perspectives and participation of
Aboriginal people
Hidden Histories: The
Wadawurrung People
Hidden Histories: The
Wadawurrung People is a digital
tour about gold rush Ballar at, which
brings to life the perspectives and
participation of Aboriginal P eople.
Hidden Histories: The
Wadawurrung People is a digital
tour about gold rush Ballar at, which
brings to life the perspectives and participation of Aboriginal
People.
HIDDEN HIST ORIES - THE W ADAWURRUNG PEOPLE
Yiwarra Kuju
The Canning Stock Route
Background | National Museum
of Australia
The exhibition debuted at the
National Museum of A ustralia in
Canberra from 30 July 2010 to 26
January 2011. It was also on show
at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centr e, Western
Australia, 2 to 27 November 2011, Australian Museum, Sydney,
17 December 2011 t o 29 April 2012, and at the Queensland
Museum, Brisbane, Queensland fr om 25 May to 14 July 2013.
NMA
Education resources
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yiwarra_kuju/educatio
n_resources ― SAM BOSWELL

25. Investigating WWII history and
citizenship
Darwin defenders
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Aboriginal war history
Anzac Day Coloured Digger
march
In Australia the 'ANZACs' have hero
status and Anzac Da y is a day of
many commemorations where
Australia's ex-servicemen and
servicewomen march the streets.But many don't know about
Australia's Aboriginal war veterans and the Coloured Diggers
march which started in 2007.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Yami Lester's story
55 years since Maralinga
atomic bombs - ABC Rural -
Australian Broadcasting
Corporation)
British atomic bomb testing began
at Maralinga in South Australia 55
years ago today.
ABC
Download an educational resource
http://blackmistburntcountry.com.au/wp-
content/uploads/2016/12/BlackMistBurntCountry_Educatio
nal_Resource_sm.pdf ― SAM BOSWELL
Short video - Australian culture in the
1960s
Stan Grant's enthusiasm that "change is coming"
ABC online education - ABC
Splash
4000+ educational games, videos
and teaching resources for schools
and students. Free Primary and
Secondary resources covering
history, science, English, maths and
more
SPLASH
The lead up to 1967
National Library of Australia
the-lead-up-to-1967
NLA
Wave Hill Walk Off - 50 Year Anniversary
Wave Hill Walk Off - 50 Year Anniversary Fifty years ago, the
Gurindji elders walk ed off Lord Vestey's Wave Hill cattle station
and never looked back. Their action on A ugust 23rd 1966
became known as the W ave Hill Walk Off and heralded the
emerging strong connection with and suppor t of Aboriginal land
rights by members of the union mo vement.
YOUTUBE
ABC archives
http://www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/stories/2012/01/19
/3411481.htm ― SAM BOSWELL
The strike that started a land rights
movement

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Wave Hill walk-off | Right
Wrongs
Gurindji people work ed on the local
Wave Hill Station. Unequal pa y and
conditions led to 200 Aboriginal
workers leaving their jobs and
walking off the station in 1966. The y sought the right to live and
work the way they wanted to on their traditional lands.
ABC
Freedom Rides
Living Black S2015 Ep2 - Freedom Rides
Revisit the journey made 50 years ago by a group of University
students led by Aboriginal activist Charles P erkins, who set off
on a bus ride around regional NSW to expose racism and
prejudice. Tune in on SBS ONE on Monda ys 5pm & NITV on
Tuesdays 9pm for Indigenous st ories that matter to all
Australians, hosted by Karla Grant.
YOUTUBE
Collaborating for Indigenous
Rights 1957-1973
In February 1965 a group of
University of Sydney students
organised a bus tour of western
and coastal New South W ales
towns. Their purpose was thr eefold. The students planned t o
draw public attention t o the poor state of Aboriginal health,
education and housing.
INDIGENOUSRIGH TS
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
1972
Collaborating for Indigenous
Rights 1957-1973
Late on Australia Day 1972, four
young Aboriginal men er ected a
beach umbrella on the lawns
outside Parliament House in
Canberra and put up a sign which
read 'Aboriginal Embassy '. Over the
following months, suppor ters of
the embassy swelled t o 2000.
INDIGENOUSRIGH TS
The history of the Aboriginal Tent
Embassy
ABC online education - ABC
Splash
4000+ educational games, videos
and teaching resources for schools
and students. Free Primary and
Secondary resources covering
history, science, English, maths and
more
SPLASH
Indigenous Australian activism in 1974
ABC online education - ABC
Splash
4000+ educational games, videos
and teaching resources for schools
and students. Free Primary and
Secondary resources covering
history, science, English, maths and
more
SPLASH
ACARA overview
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Histories and Cultures
- The Australian Curriculum
v8.1
The Australian Curriculum sets consistent national standar ds to
improve learning outcomes for all y oung Australians. ACARA
acknowledges the gap in learning outcomes between Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander students and their non-Indigenous
peers. It recognises the need for the A ustralian Curriculum to
provide every opportunity possible to 'close the gap'.
AUSTRALI ANCURRICUL UM
Indigenous Histories blog on Wordpress

27. Indigenous Histories
I was saddened to learn at
Christmas of the death in
September of Don Elphick. Don
was known to the wider
community for his r ole in rugby
league football and described in an online obituar y as 'an
instrumental par t of the Canberra Raiders formation and entr y
into the NSWRL for their debut season in 1982, after a long and
distinguished period with A CT rugby league.'
INDIGENOUS HIST ORIES
Curriculum resources
National Museum Australia
Indigenous culture & history |
National Museum of Australia
Skip links menu. Some links ma y
not be available on all pages.
NMA
Images & artefacts
National photography exhibition
Indigenous military veterans
honoured through photographs
Posted November 13, 2017
06:22:55 The sacrifices made b y
Indigenous Australians in war are
being remembered through a
national photography exhibition, with v eterans from regional
areas playing a significant role in the project. Newcastle man
Hayden Neill is a self-described " military kid". He joined the
army six years ago, following in the footsteps of his f ather.
ABC NEWS
Rottnest's dark past
The exquisite glass spearhead
that tells of Rottnest's dark past
When a spectacular centur y-old
green glass spearhead was
unearthed on Rottnest Island b y an
Indigenous Studies student fr om
the University of Western Australia, images were shared across
the globe. This phot ogenic glass artefact however tells a dark
story that is often overlooked by visitors to the popular tourist
destination today.
SBS YOUR LANGUAGE
Torres Strait exhibit on national tour
celebrating history of ceremonial mask-making
'We see our ancestors': The
history of masks in the Torres
Strait Islands
Updated June 28, 2017 15:32:02 In
the Zenadth Kes, also known as the
Torres Strait Islands, the ar t of
ceremonial mask-making has been ar ound for centuries. Made
from materials such as woods, shells and f eathers, the masks
play an important role in uniting the div erse groups of the Torres
Strait together.
ABC NEWS
Right to be counted catalogue
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Australian War Memorial collection
Informal portrait Aboriginal
serviceman NX31660 Private
George Henry Beale, 2/20th
Battalion. He was captured,
along with his brother,
NX31736 Pte Frederick Beale
after the fall of Singapore on 15 ...
Informal portrait Aboriginal serviceman NX31660 Private
George Henry Beale, 2/20th Battalion. He was captur ed, along
with his brother, NX31736 Pte Frederick Beale after the fall of
Singapore on 15 February 1942 and spent time in Cha ngi POW
camp before being sent to Naoetsu Camp in Japan with C F orce
on board Kamakura Maru, and were forced to work as steel mill
labourers.
AWM
◦◦◦ FACES of AUSTRALIA ◦◦◦
NAA

28. Storylines
Digital database
Aboriginal Heritage Western
Australia Revealed | Particle
Since its invention, photography
has been our window t o the past.
Photographs freeze moments in
time so we can go back and
remember. We use them to tell the stories of our history. But for
many Indigenous communities in W A, important moments in
their history were kept out of reach.
PARTICLE
Keeping Culture https://www.keepingculture.com
― SAM BOSWELL
Nicky Winmar's stand
On 17 April 1993, Aboriginal
Australian Football League (AFL)
player Nicky Winmar stood
defiantly in front of opposition
spectators who had been hurling
racial abuse at him. He lifted his jerse y and pointed at his skin,
shouting 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black'.
NMA
Face Exhibition - Indigenous
Heroes Inspire Generations
FACEEXHIBI TION
Indigenous Portraits
In these portraits, Indigenous
Australians talk about their liv es.
Interview subjects include Da vid
Gulpilil, Rachel Perkins and Wayne
Blair. They discuss the impact that
white settlement and go vernment
policies have had on them and
their families. The common theme
which runs through these stories is
the importance of connection t o country.
NFSA
Experience the songlines of
Uluṟu with Google Maps Street
View and Story Spheres
Since 2007, Google has mapped
imagery of unique locations acr oss
83 countries, including heritage
monuments, touristic sites, museums, national parks and tr ansit
locations across the globe. In the case of Ulu ṟu-Kata Tjuṯa
National Park, Tjukurpa warranted a more nuanced approach.
For Aṉangu, there is no distinction between the physical and
metaphysical, or the animate and inanimate.
GOOGLE
Photo gallery via The Age
Commemorating Eddie Mabo
Mabo Day celebration
Mabo Day commemorates the 25th
anniversary of the Mabo decision
which was a landmark case in
which Eddie Koiki Mabo (Meriam)
challenged the notion of 'T erra
Nullius'; that Australia was a 'land belonging t o no one', in the
High Court of Australia.
THE AGE
Iconic photos of Charles Perkins and
images from "After 200 Years"
RobertMcFarlane-Received%20Moments%20Edu-Kit.pdf
PDF document
FLINDERS
Now showing at the National Museum of
Australia

29. Evolution: Torres Strait Masks |
National Museum of Australia
Explore the longstanding
importance of masks in Torres
Strait culture and how they
continue to influence
contemporary art forms in this exhibition de veloped by the Gab
Titui Cultural Centre on Thursday Island.
NMA
Culturally significant objects
Collections
We hold the world's largest
collection dedicated t o Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander cultures and histories. Our
collection is highly significant both
as a keeping place for cultur ally significant objects, and as a
resource for anybody looking t o improve their knowledge of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture.
AUSTRALI AN INSTI TUTE OF ABORIGIN AL AND T ORRES ST RAIT
ISLANDER STUDIES
Land rights
History of Aboriginal land rights
Aboriginal land rights
The Aboriginal land rights
movement started in 1966 with a
demand for better wages.10 y ears
later the first Aboriginal land rights
act secured Aboriginal people 's
rights to land.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Land rights
Land rights for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples
refers to the ongoing struggle t o
gain legal and moral recognition of
ownership of lands and waters
they called home prior t o colonisation of Australia in 1788.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' laws and cust oms
and ways of knowing and being in the world ar e intimately
connected to the land and waters.
AUSTRALI AN INSTI TUTE OF ABORIGIN AL AND T ORRES ST RAIT
ISLANDER STUDIES
The people of the Pilbara take on
Australia's biggest philanthropist
Title ght: The people of the
Pilbara take on Australia's great
philanthropist | Paul Cleary
The iron ore trains, more than 2
kilometres long, take a good 15 to
20 minutes to pass you by as they
wind their way through the red hills of the Pilbara from the mine
to the port. These trains typically consist of mor e than 200
wagons, and they demonstrate in stark terms who ge ts what
from extracting our common wealth.
THE MON THLY
Languages & maps
Native animals should be rechristened
with their Aboriginal names
Native animals should be
rechristened with their
Aboriginal names
NAMES CAN BE as inter esting as
the animals they describe. In
Australia they are often evocative
and onomatopoeic, and have evolved from Aboriginal terms -
names such as: bilb y, currawong, dingo, quoll, wobbe gong and
yabby.
AUSTRALI AN GEOGRAPHIC
Kim Scott wants to reclaim Aboriginal
stories & languages
How can we 'wake up'
indigenous languages?
Reclaiming Aboriginal st ories and
empowering Aboriginal people
ABC RADIO
Noongar language and stories project
http://wirlomin.com.au/ ― SAM BOSWELL
Revival is awakening sleeping tongues
across the nation
Many languages had slipped from use

30. Speaking up
IN THE DRY bed of the Nor thern
Territory's Hanson River, words
dance from Clarrie Kemarr Long's
fingertips. Her hand signs and
facial expressions are as
captivating as the hypnotic song she leads while sitting cr oss-
legged in the shade of riv er red gums. She is accomp anied by
other senior Aboriginals - Eileen Pwerr erl Campbell and Molly
Pwerrerl Presley - and younger women, all of whom s peak both
the Anmatyerre and Warlpiri languages.
AUSTRALI AN GEOGRAPHIC
Language Tracks: Aboriginal English and
the classroom
Aboriginal English and the Classroom
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Play the game and learn words in the
Gadigal language
Scratch - NAIDOC Week
Language Quiz
Celebrate NAIDOC week with Code
Club Australia!! Play this game and
learn three words in our local
Aboriginal language, Gadigal. See if
you can guess them all first time! Star t by clicking the koala!
Maybe you could create your own language game using y our
local Aboriginal language!
MIT
Learn words in Australian
languages with four young
speakers
Updated March 21, 2017 13:40:33
Although English is the most
commonly spoken language,
Australia is linguistically div erse. But that's always been the
case. Many languages, sub-languages and dialects wer e spoken
across the continent befor e 1788. The figure that's often cited is
250 - but that's only the number of distinct languages, as
opposed to variations or regional dialects of a language chain.
ABC NEWS
11 people elevating Indigenous
languages
This is not an exhaustiv e list
because there are so many
incredible Indigenous people who
are spending their days reviving
language and inspiring the next gener ation. This list
acknowledges contributions that ar e grassroots and
contributions that ha ve a macro impact at a policy le vel to make
the daily contributions possible.
NITV
Australia's first languages
Cross-curricular Programs
For schools not currently running
an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island
language program. Australian
Curriculum Links Thank y ou for
your interest in Marrin Gamu and
Australia's first languages. This song was r ecorded with children
from five language groups with the aim of incr easing awareness
about the number, diversity and impor tance of Australia's first
languages.
MARRIN GAMU
Rapping in an indigenous language
Arnhem Land artist one of rst
to rap in Indigenous language
Updated May 24, 2017 09:36:09
Musician and dancer Bak er Boy
had a clear goal in mind: he wanted
to be Australia's first Aboriginal
artist to rap in an Indigenous language. And with the r elease of
his track Cloud 9, which f eatures the 20-year-old rapping in
Yolngu Matha, he's on his way.
ABC NEWS
Listen to examples of language, watch
archival video

31. ABC Radio National - Hindsight
- Holding our tongues
Holding our tongues is a Hindsight
project about the long and painful
task of reviving Aboriginal
languages. Click on the place
names on the map below t o listen to examples of language,
watch archival video or find more information.
ABC
Links & other resources
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/legacy/features/holdingourtongu
es/links.htm ― SAM BOSWELL
Noongar language and stories project
Wirlomin Noongar Language
and Stories Project
Welcome to the Wirlomin Noongar
Language and Stories Project
website.
WIRLOMIN
Wirlomin word list http://wirlomin.com.au/?page_id=735
― SAM BOSWELL
Enduring Voices Project
Raising awareness to language loss
Enduring Voices Expeditions
The Enduring Voices Project
travels to some of the most r emote
parts of the world to study Earth's
many endangered languages. See
them in action in this video of
expeditions to Northern Australia and Northeastern India.
NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC
Keeping Aboriginal languages alive
The Department's Aboriginal languages teacher tr aining course
has been run since 1998 and tr ains people who speak
Aboriginal languages - lik e Ms Lusted at Safety Bay Senior High
School- to be Aboriginal language teachers.
YOUTUBE
Do you know a Bunji from a
Boorie? Meet our dictionary's
new Indigenous words
A new edition of the A ustralian
National Dictionar y has just been
published. It contains 16,000
words and while the first edition (published in 1988) included
about 250 words from 60 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
languages, the latest has mor e than 500 words from 100
languages.
THE CONVERSA TION
Australian National Dictionary
http://australiannationaldictionary.com.au ― SAM BOSWELL
Reviving Aboriginal languages
Sand drawing is a form of v erbal
art in indigenous cultur e. (Credit:
David Hancock) IN THE DR Y BED
of the Northern Territory's Hanson
River, words dance from Clarrie
Kemarr Long's fingertips.
AUSTRALI AN GEOGRAPHIC
Watch "The Buyungurra who didn't listen"
Told using words in Malgana language used around Shark
Bay

32. ABC online education - ABC
Splash
4000+ educational games, videos
and teaching resources for schools
and students. Free Primary and
Secondary resources covering
history, science, English, maths and
more
SPLASH
Daisy Bates interviewed Baandee from
Carnamah
Aboriginal Vocabulary from
Baandee of Carnamah
In 1904 and 1905 anthr opologist
Daisy Bates travelled around
Western Australia interviewing
Aboriginal people on language,
customs and kinship. Among those she inter viewed was an
Aboriginal man from Carnamah named Baandee. She r ecorded
Baandee's language as the Carnamah dialect of the Y eerathoo
wongi language.
CARNAMAH
My Weekend with Pop
Story told in Wiradjuri
Story told in Wiradjuri Diane
McNaboe is a Wiradjuri,
Gamilaraay woman who grew up in
Dubbo on Wiradjuri Country on the
Talbragar reserve. Diane is the
Teacher, Aboriginal Language and Cultur e North/ West Wiradjuri
Language and Cultur e Nest, based in Dubbo.
STATE LIBRAR Y OF NSW
Accompanying student activities
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/history-k-6
― SAM BOSWELL
Re-awakening languages: theory and
practice in the revitalisation of Australia's
indigenous languages
Contents RAL_TEXT_eReserve
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Sydney eScholarship repository
https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/6647/browse?
type=title&sort_by=1&order=ASC&rpp=20&etal=-1&null=&off
set=0 ― SAM BOSWELL
Learn words in Australian
languages with four young
speakers
Updated March 21, 2017 13:40:33
Although English is the most
commonly spoken language,
Australia is linguistically div erse. But that's always been the
case. Many languages, sub-languages and dialects wer e spoken
across the continent befor e 1788. The figure that's often cited is
250 - but that's only the number of distinct languages, as
opposed to variations or regional dialects of a language chain.
ABC NEWS
Language of Belonging
ACTF
The Australian Children's Television
Foundation
ACTF
Mapping Noongar Perth

33. New map details the Noongar
history of Perth CBD
Updated July 11, 2014 13:06:51
Two free maps of the City of P erth
describe the significant hist oric
sites of the Wadjuk Noongar
people of the Perth area, both before and after colonisation.
Created by Professor Len Collard, University of Western
Australia researcher and a traditional owner of the P erth area,
and Dr Tod Jones from Curtin University, the guides are called
Karla Yarning: stories of the home fir es.
ABC NEWS
Karla Yarning: stories of the home res
https://www.perth.wa.gov.au/our-capital-city/things-see-
and-do/karla-yarning-stories-home- res ― SAM BOSWELL
Appropriate words and terminology for
Aboriginal topics
Appropriate words &
terminology for Aboriginal
topics
Which words should you use,
which avoid? Use this guide t o
appropriate terms when talking or
writing about Aboriginal t opics to avoid offending Aboriginal
people.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Aboriginal words in Australian
English
Language Australia's language is
interspersed with wor ds that come
from Aboriginal languages.
Aboriginal words are still added to
the Australian vocabulary, and meanings are not what you
expected. 500 Number of Aboriginal wor ds included in the 2016
edition of the Australian National Dictionar y.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Aboriginal languages of
Australia
Aboriginal people wer e able to
speak two, three or more
languages fluently. Their oral
culture made them masters in
remembering.
CREATIVE SPIRI TS
Also teaching Aboriginal languages at school
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/language
/teaching-aboriginal-languages-at-school#axzz4kcNo4Rj7
― SAM BOSWELL
Uluru view
Google Street View - Explore
natural wonders and world
landmarks
Explore world landmarks, disco ver
natural wonders, and step inside
locations such as museums,
arenas, parks and transport hubs.
GOOGLE STREE T VIEW
Take a guided tour https://storyspheres.com/uluru/
― SAM BOSWELL
Noongar language centre
Noongar Boodjar Language
Cultural Aboriginal Corporation
- Noongar Language Center
Chairperson of NBLCAC, George
Hayden, introduces Dr. Eades
Noongar Boodjar Language Centr e
was very pleased to be able to present a talk in Bunbur y last
week, by Dr. Diane Eades entitled, 'Communicating wi th... Read
More
NOONGARBOODJ AR
State Maps
DAA
ABC Radio National program
Word Up: Zaachariaha Fielding
Pitjantjatjara is a one of the few
Aboriginal languages not t o be
considered endangered.
RADIO N ATIONAL
Boodjar Nyungar Placenames
The South-West of Western
Australia covers the general area
south of Geraldton and west of
Esperance and Nungarin. To the
Nyungar people, the ar ea is known
as Nyungar Boodjar. Within this area, 50% of the plac enames
are of Nyungar origin but, t o date, little of their meaning has
been widely known.
UWA

34. Aboriginal English and bidialectal
classroom practices
What Works - The Work
Program - Improving Outcomes
for Indigenous students
The project started with a
professional development forum
which all fourteen participating
teachers attended. An oppor tunity was provided for the
teachers to learn about Aboriginal English and two-wa y
bidialectal education, and t o reflect upon issues that emer ge
from such an approach.
WHATWORKS
Open access online resources
Links to learning areas
Using LAAL resources across
the Australian Curriculum |
Living Archive of Aboriginal
Languages
We recently published a paper in
the Learning Communities Journal
identifying how educat ors can use materials in the Living
Archive across all areas of the Australian Curriculum, in line with
the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and T orres Strait
Islander histories and cultures. The paper can be downloaded
here, or you can select a specific learning ar ea ...
LIVING ARCHIVE OF ABORIGIN AL LANGUAGES
Using authentic language resources to incorporate
Indigenous knowledges across the Australian Curriculum
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Australian Geographic
Custom lettering for a wor d map
showing over 380 Aboriginal tribes
and dialects in their r espective
locations. Under dir ection from
Mike Rossi.
BEHANCE
View the interactive map
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/default.htm
― SAM BOSWELL
Mabo
Mabo: Native Title | Right
Wrongs
The Federal Government used the
'race powers' granted in 1967 to
enact the Native Title Act 1993.
Native title gives some Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people some rights t o their land
because of their traditional laws and cust oms.
ABC

35. Mabo-decision_2017
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Getting to know Eddie Mabo,
the man behind the legend
Posted June 03, 2017 07:00:00
American journalist and author
Mignon McLaughlin once wr ote:
"Society honours its living
conformists and its dead tr oublemakers." It's a poignant and
powerful quote when it comes t o how history celebrates
prominent heroic Indigenous Australians - considered
troublemakers in their day, honoured after their passi ng.
ABC NEWS
indigenous_gov on Twitter
Watch Gail Mabo as she shar es her
memories of 3 June 1992, and
what the Mabo High Cour t decision
meant to her family. #NRW2017
https://t.co/5UTLuSaJbU
TWITTER
Don't fence me in: 25 years
since Mabo
25 years on from the Mabo
decision we bring you a story about
keeping the personal memor y of a
loved one alive - even as they
become an icon of hist ory.
RADIO N ATIONAL

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Mabo - ABC TV
Rather than accept this injustice,
he began an epic fight for
Australian law to recognise
traditional land rights. E ddie never
lived to see his land returned to
him, but the name Mabo is known in e very household
throughout the countr y.
ABC
Australians Together
The momentous Mabo legal case
finally acknowledged the hist ory of
Indigenous dispossession in
Australia, abolished the legal
fiction of "terra nullius", and altered the foundation of A ustralian
land law. Eddie Koiki Mabo was the lead claimant in t he case,
which sought legal r ecognition of the Meriam peoples'
ownership of their traditional lands on the island of Mer in the
Torres Strait.
AUSTRALI ANS TOGETHER
Mabo case
The Mabo Case was a significant
legal case in Australia that
recognised the land rights of the
Meriam people, traditional owners
of the Murray Islands (which
include the islands of Mer , Dauer and Waier) in the Torres Strait.
AUSTRALI AN INSTI TUTE OF ABORIGIN AL AND T ORRES ST RAIT
ISLANDER STUDIES
Behind the News story
Mabo Day
Next Monday is Mabo day. In the Torres Strait it's a public
holiday and in the rest of Australia it's a chance to remember a
man who had a big impact on A ustralia's history. Sarah looks
into who Mabo actually was. And a warning t o Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander viewers; this st ory contains images of
people who've died.
ABC
Mabo/Mabo - The Native Title
Revolution
Mabo - The Native Title Revolution
MABONATIVETITLE
NAIDOC
NAIDOC Week - Perth the
Noongar View
School holiday activity, for ages 4
to 12 year olds Where: The Old
Court House Law Museum, Stirling
Gardens, Perth [...] Music in the
Convent - Public Tour and Tea Day Play a musical instrument?
Always wanted to get your hands (literally) on a grand piano, or
a church organ?
HERITAGE PERTH
Sunset on the eastern sail
Celebrating NAIDOC
Sydney Opera House to be lit up
with Aboriginal art each sunset
THROUGHOUT SYDNEY'S Vivid
festival, the Sydney Opera House
was lit up with swashes of
Aboriginal art. Now, Opera House
officials have decided to continue the seven minute show
beyond the festival, each sunset on the eastern sails of the
landmark from tonight onward.
AUSTRALI AN GEOGRAPHIC
NAIDOC History
Download and print the N AIDOC
History Timeline (PDF version)
1920 - 1930 Before the 1920s,
Aboriginal rights groups boycotted
Australia Day (26 January) in
protest against the status and tr eatment of Indigenous
Australians. By the 1920s, the y were increasingly aware that the
broader Australian public were largely ignorant of the boycotts.
NAIDOC
NAIDOC awards

37. Mills takes out Person of the
Year at NAIDOC Awards
Updated July 02, 2017 09:27:19
Celebrated for sharing his cultur e
with the world, three-time Olympian
Patrick "Patty" Mills has been
named Person of the Year at this year's NAIDOC Awards. Mills, a
Muralag Torres Strait Islander and Ynunga Aboriginal man, was
honoured for using his international pr ofile as an NBA star t o
advocate for Aboriginal and T orres Strait Islander rights.
ABC NEWS
Naidoc Perth - Aboriginal &
Torres Strait Islander Cultures
2017 - 10 years of NAIDOC Perth |
60 years of NAIDOC The National
NAIDOC theme for 2017 is: Our
Languages Matter The impor tance,
resilience and richness of Aboriginal and T orres Strait Islander
languages will be the focus of national celebr ations marking
NAIDOC Week 2017.
NAIDOCPER TH
Activity booklet
Queensland context
naidoc-activity-pack
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
NAIDOCHistoryTimeline
PDF document
PADLET DRIVE
Poster gallery http://www.naidoc.org.au/poster-gallery
― SAM BOSWELL
NAIDOC Timeline
Timeline: From the beginning of
NAIDOC Week till now
1920 - 1930 Before the 1920s,
Aboriginal rights groups boycotted
Australia Day (26 January) in
protest against the status and
treatment of Indigenous A ustralians. By the 1920s, the y were
increasingly aware that the broader Australian public were
largely ignorant of the boycotts. If the movement were to make
progress, it would need to be active.
NITV
Find events near you http://www.naidoc.org.au/events-
calendar ― SAM BOSWELL
National Reconciliation Week
Reconciliation resources
From Reconciliation Australia
Resources
Sign up to be able to create a
listing in the Reconciliation
Australia Cultural Awareness
Training Register.
RECONCILI ATION
Resources related to reconciliation
Units of work, articles and essays via PETAA

38. Reconciliation_week_resources.aspx
WWW.PETAA.EDU.A U
Streetwize comic
Narragunnawali
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PADLET DRIVE
What do students think of
Reconciliation Week?
National Reconciliation W eek is
held each year held between 27
May and 3 June. The week aims
for everyone to acknowledge the
history of Indigenous Australians and to keep building
respectful and positiv e relationships. Three Indigenous students
from the University of Technology Sydney share their personal
thoughts about National Reconciliation W eek, and what it
means to them.
AUSTRALI A PLUS
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PADLET DRIVE
What is National Reconciliation
Week?
National Reconciliation W eek,
which kicks off on the anniv ersary
of a day that aimed to give
Indigenous Australians greater
equality, strives to grow the relationship between them and
other Australians. [sbsondemand video="693125187822"]
NITV
Glimpse how life looks from an
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
perspective
Share Our Pride
RECONCILI ATION

39. The State of Reconciliation in
Australia report
Reconciliation Australia is proud to
release the State of Reconciliation
in Australia report. The first of its
kind since 2000, the Repor t
highlights what has been achie ved under the five dimensions of
reconciliation: race relations, equality and equity , institutional
integrity, unity, and historical acceptance and mak es
recommendations on how we can pr ogress reconciliation into
the next generation.
RECONCILI ATION
Curriculum resources to promote
reconcilitation
Curriculum Resources
Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in
Schools and Early Learning is
designed to support the 21,000+
early learning services, primary and
secondary schools in Australia to
develop environments that foster a higher le vel of knowledge
and pride in Aboriginal and T orres Strait Islander histories,
cultures and contributions.
NARRAGUNNAWALI
Emoji to mark #NRW2017
Twitter launches Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander ags
emoji
Digital culture interweaves words
and symbols, thus making emojis a
mainstream form of
communication - winky face, lo ve heart, Christmas tree. While
we may associate these with t oday's youth or a trend in pop
culture, the use of emojis symbolises mor e than a monkey
covering its ears or a ripe peach.
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Secondary curriculum links: activities & inquiry questions
Let's Talk about the Theme for
National Reconciliation Week,
2017 (Secondary)
In this activity, students explore the
purpose of the 2017 NRW theme
and create their own NRW posters.
NARRAGUNNAWALI
News headlines
Focus on language and culture key to
success
Wiluna Remote Community
School state nalists
Posted September 05, 2017
18:33:40 A remote WA school
principal says a focus on language
and culture is critical for schools t o
reach out to Aboriginal students. Almost 1,000km nor th-east of
Perth, Wiluna Remote Community School has been n amed as a
finalist for the WA Excellence in Aboriginal E ducation award.
ABC NEWS
School play explores Stolen Generation
Parents praise Stolen
Generation school play after
shock jock and celebrity parent
outrage
A large number of parents have
expressed praise and suppor t for a
primary school play on the Stolen Generation after it was
denounced as 'inappr opriate' on radio and in News Corpor ation
reports this morning. This morning former Soccer oo Robbie
Slater who was in the audience expr essed his outrage to News
Corporation local paper The Manly Daily claiming it was
"disgusting".
NITV
Women who dance for strength
From domestic violence to the
Djaadjawan dance group:
Women who dance for strength
For the last three years, the
Djaadjawan dance gr oup have
been competing in the Sy dney
Opera House's ground breaking national Indigenous dance
competition, Dance Rites. Dance Rites aims t o revitalise
vanishing cultural practices - language, dance, skin markings,
and instruments - to ensure they are shared from one
generation to the next.
NITV
Shoe design for Jimmy Choo by artist
Peter Farmer

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Perth, Western Australia, National
& World News
THEWEST
Garma: In 2017 the struggle for
indigenous Australians to be seen and
heard continues
Stan Grant: For Indigenous
Australians, the struggle to be
seen continues
With the planting of a British flag
two centuries ago, the rights of a
people who had been her e for
thousands of generations were extinguished. But we ha ve
survived, and in 2017 the struggle t o be seen and heard
continues, Stan Grant writes.
ABC NEWS
White Australians Celebrate, Aboriginal
People Mourn
Opinion | White Australians
Celebrate, Aboriginal People
Mourn
The attempted exterminations on
the frontier eventually evolved into
official government policy.
Aboriginal people wer e forced off their land and int o missions
and reserves. Their children, known as the Stolen Generations,
were routinely taken away from their families as par t of an
attempt to breed Aboriginal people out of existence, a pr actice
that continued into the 20th century.
NYTIMES
The legacy reverberates: how a
repulsive image reminds us of
our ugly past | Paul Daley
When you've ventured into
Australia's dark historical corners
for long enough it's possible to
become inured to the discomfiting truths lurking ther e. But the
cover photograph of Every Mother's Son is Guilty: Policing the
Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905, by historian
Chris Owen, rocked me.
THE GUARDIAN
Commemorating 75th anniversary of
Japanese bombing raids
Horn Island commemorates
75th anniversary of Japanese
bombing raids
Posted March 14, 2017 13:57:51
One of Australia's most important
but little known defence bases is
marking 75 years since the beginning of an extensiv e Japanese
bombing campaign during W orld War II. Horn Island, in the
Torres Strait, about 800 kilometr es north of Cairns, was home t o
thousands of Allied tr oops during the war.
ABC NEWS
Class is the new black, and I
should know
Updated June 28, 2017 10:09:23
Last night on the ABC, F oreign
Correspondent took a look at
Indigenous Australia through
American eyes. Included under that gaz e, was my own family
who were framed as an Indigenous middle-class success st ory.
Despite living in "Brisbane 's gritty Inala", our family appeared to
"defy the racial stereotypes" with our pr ofessional careers, and
"nice house with a pool".
ABC NEWS
The day the Pintupi Nine
entered the modern world -
BBC News
In 1984 a group of Australian
Aboriginal people living a
traditional nomadic lif e were
encountered in the heart of the Gibson deser t in Western
Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on
the continent, let alone cars - or e ven clothes.
BBC NEWS
Virtual Songlines: using new
technology to recreate a
vanished past
Brett Leavy is a proud indigenous
broadcaster and inventor, an
immersive heritage specialist,
virtual historian and artist. He's also a self-described time-
traveller. Since 1997 his vision has been t o use to recreate the
Australia of his ancestors - the continent as it was prior t o the
arrival of European settlers.
RADIO N ATIONAL
Helping Aboriginal people keep
connected with local culture

41. (28/6/16) World- rst Trakka
mobile app helping Aboriginal
people keep connected with
local culture | City of Fremantle
(28/6/16) World-first Trakka mobile
app helping Aboriginal people k eep
connected with local cultur e A new smartphone application will
aim to strengthen connections and awar eness of cultural
events, days of significance and significant places for Aboriginal
people, and improve the level of Aboriginal engageme nt with
local government.
FREMANTLE
Recognising colonial wars
Mapping Aboriginal massacres
makes it time to recognise the
colonial wars, say leading
historians
Almost every Aboriginal clan
experienced massacr es at the
hands of early settlers in the " colonial wars", accor ding to the
first stage of a new online mapping pr oject. It has documented
150 massacres resulting in at least 6000 deaths in the early
years of the colony.
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Fixing the hole in the heart of Australia
Aboriginal lifestyles could x
the hole in the heart of
Australia
The prime minister 's recent
assertion that the government
cannot afford to fund the "lifestyle
choices" of remotely based Aboriginal people is an oppor tunity
to increase the debate about the futur e of outback Australia.
Tony Abbott was repeating that time-worn asser tion that
Aboriginal people represent little else but a dr ain on the public
purse.
THE CONVERSA TION
ABC news
ABC Online Indigenous - Home
Welcome to ABC Indigenous - the
ABC's new portal for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people. The
Indigenous portal replaces and
upgrades the pre-existing Message
Stick gateway. It was developed in consultation with t he ABC's
Indigenous Programs Unit and with members of the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander community.
ABC
Representations in history text books
History textbooks still imply
that Australians are white
In this series, we'll discuss whether
progress is being made on
Indigenous education, looking at
various areas including policy,
scholarships, school leadership, liter acy and much more.
Despite improvements to their content over time, secondar y
school history textbooks still imply that A ustralians are white.
THE CONVERSA TION
ABC iview : News Special: 250
Shades Of Black
News Special: 250 Shades Of Black
: On the anniversary of the 1967
Referendum, live from Darwin a
debate about the push of an
indigenous treaty and constitutional change. Includes activists
Michael Mansell, Josie Cr awshaw, John Christophersen and
Luke Pearson.
ABC IVIEW
ABC Focuses on Indigenous
Milestones in 2017
This year marks several significant
historical, political and cultur al
anniversaries for our First Nation
peoples including 50 y ears since
the 1967 referendum, and 25 years since the historic Mabo
decision. Between Ma y and August the ABC will focus on these
milestones with specially cr eated content across all platforms.
ABOUT THE ABC
Victories for Indigenous people
are always short-lived. That's
why we need a treaty - now
Nine years ago I happened t o be on
the lawns at Parliament House in
Canberra for the National Apology .
It was an accidental showing on my par t. I'd flown down to the
ACT from Alice Springs to cover an event the day before called
the Converge on Canberra rally, which was protesting the
Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), otherwise
known as the "inter vention".
THE GUARDIAN
Partnership, acceptance, learning and
sharing (PALS) award

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School teaches Aboriginal
culture to move towards
reconciliation
Coolbinia Primary School has
integrated Aboriginal cultur e into
their curriculum, teaching students
from Kindergarten to year seven about Aboriginal ar tists,
politics and tragedies of the past. "The students ar e actually
exposed to the history, the dark side of hist ory such as
massacres, and how do we grie ve for the past or the St olen
Generation, or the policies that wer e in place by the government
of the time," says Coolbinia Primar y School Principal Julie
Bettenay.
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Other 2015 award winners
https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/community-
development/pals/2015-award-winners/ ― SAM BOSWELL
Online resources
Aboriginal Education WebQuest
Explore education policy from 1920-1970s
WebQuest Direct - Aboriginal
Educational Perspectives
In the following Webquest you will
use the power of teamwork t o
understand about Aboriginal
Education and the social and
political issues that ar e relevant for the era you have chosen to
research. Each person will become an exper t on some aspect
effecting aboriginal education, including health, housing, deaths
in custody, employment and cultural acceptance.
MAXESP
Indigenous Education
Resources
Indigenous education r esources
for all levels of Australian schools,
students and teachers.
AUSSIEEDUCA TOR
Living Off Our Waters
Some material may contain terms
that reflect authors' views, or those
of the period in which the item was
written or recorded, but may not be
considered appropriate today.
These views are not necessarily the views of AI ATSIS. While the
information may not reflect current understanding, it is pr ovided
in an historical context.
AUSTRALI AN INSTI TUTE OF ABORIGIN AL AND T ORRES ST RAIT
ISLANDER STUDIES
Face the facts: Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples ha ve a unique
place in Australia as the original
inhabitants of the land. Acr oss the
country, many individuals and communities maintain str ong
connections to their culture, language and traditional lands,
while also contributing t o the environmental management,
economic development and cultural identity of our nation.
HUMANRIGHTS
Policy research
Australian National University
Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research - CAEPR - ANU
The Centre for Aboriginal
Economic Policy Research
(CAEPR) is Australia's foremost
social science research body
focusing on Indigenous economic and social policy fr om a
national perspective. CAEPR aims to undertake social science
research on Indigenous policy and de velopment that is excellent
by the best international and disciplinar y standards and that
informs intellectual understanding, public debate, policy
formation and community action.
ANU
ABC Online Indigenous - Home
Welcome to ABC Indigenous - the
ABC's new portal for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people. The
Indigenous portal replaces and
upgrades the pre-existing Message
Stick gateway. It was developed in consultation with t he ABC's
Indigenous Programs Unit and with members of the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander community.
ABC
Crackerjack Education
Sharing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture
Crackerjack Education
Our expert team have individually
designed written and chosen
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
online resources that match each
Indigenous code of the A ustralian
Curriculum. We have allocated them under Y ear level and
subject as well as Aboriginal and T orres Strait Islander topics.
CRACKERJACKEDUCATION

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AUSTLIT
Sharing indigenous knowledge
Welcome to Burarra Gathering
This website gives a sense of the
people, land, language and
traditional technologies and
knowledge of the Bur arra people of
Arnhem Land, in Australia's
Northern Territory. You can take a virtual trip to the land of the
Burarra people, and be guided b y Danaja, a young Burarra man,
and his grandfather, Wala Wala.
QUESTACON - THE N ATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOL OGY CENTRE
Visit Burarra Gathering & download for of ine use
https://www.questacon.edu.au/burarra-
gathering/Main_New.swf ― SAM BOSWELL
Australian Indigenous Health Info Net
Australian Indigenous
HealthInfoNet - helping to
'close the gap' by providing the
evidence base to inform
practice and policy in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander health
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet mak es
comprehensive, up-to-date information accessible t o people
interested in the health of Indigenous A ustralians. It provides a
range of resources. Information is a vailable on data sour ces,
current research, theses, full text material, r esearch findings and
bibliographic data.
ECU
Social justice
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Social Justice |
Australian Human Rights
Commission
All of us can play a part in making
sure that every Australian -
Indigenous and non-Indigenous - has the oppor tunities and
choices they need to lead full and healthy liv es.
HUMANRIGHTS
More on social justice from the Australian Museum
https://australianmuseum.net.au/indigenous-australia-
social-justice ― SAM BOSWELL
Travelling workshops, photography
exhibition and community celebration
events
Home · Marnti Warajanga- a
walk together
We're expanding Marnti war ajanga
into a project touring five
communities in the Pilbar a. Explore
the Pilbara Tour
MOADOPH
Indigenous Weather Knowledge
- Bureau of Meteorology
The Indigenous meteor ology of
Australia, knowledge on weather ,
calendars and climate.
BOM
Explore milestones along the journey to
democracy
Marnti warajanga- A walk
together
Explore milestones of the
Indigenous journey of democracy
in Australia and consider their
relevance to today. Supporting
information and activities for the online exhibition.
MUSEUM OF A USTRALI AN DEMOCRA CY AT OLD PARLIAMENT
HOUSE
Be Deadly Online about big issues
Developed with deadly Indigenous writers and voice actors
- includes great animations
School resources
Positive, practical classroom
resources to assist teachers and
young people to tackle
cyberbullying, sexting and digital
footprint.
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Providing leadership, adv ocacy and
support to people and
organisations driving the
movement for reconciliation in
Western Australia
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Perth's Aboriginal history
The Aboriginal people of the P erth
area belong to the southwest
region and are referred to by
various names. The best known
are Nyoongar, Nyungar, Noongar,
Wajuk and Wudjari. However, the variations of "Nyoongar"
appear to be wrong. "As a nation we are not even Noongars, we
are actually Bibbullmun.
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Reconciliation Weekis held
between 27 May and 3 June each
year and commemorates both the
successful 1967 referendum and the High Cour t Mabo decision
in 1992. 2017 marks the 50th and 25th anniv ersaries of these
significant milestones in reconciliation.
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