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‘Everything is Country’: these 4 projects blend First Nations knowledge and science to rewrite our understanding of the past

A lot of things scientists study are part of Country – the lands, waters and skies to which First Nations peoples are connected. In Australia, there has to date been little respect for the significance or value of cultural knowledge in scientific practice.

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Culture and Country are at the heart of this garden

A community has established a garden in the hopes of reconnecting young people with culture and Country through elders' stories and hands-on learning.

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Traditional owners and scientists worked together on ‘coral IVF’ projects. Here’s what we found

The Great Barrier Reef, which supports an estimated 64,000 jobs and has a social and economic value of around A$6.4 billion, is under threat due to human-induced climate change.

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Practising culture on Country can improve Aboriginal people’s health and wellbeing

Despite decades of policy interventions, the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is declining against defined targets. And yet, health and wellbeing continue to be measured against deficit-focused “gaps” between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians in health research and policy.

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A patchwork of spinifex: how we returned cultural burning to the Great Sandy Desert

How can a desert burn? Australia’s vast deserts aren’t just sand dunes – they’re often dotted with flammable spinifex grass hummocks. When heavy rains fall, grass grows quickly before drying out. That’s how a desert can burn.

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Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project

As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like watching a movie. A story of who was there and what they were doing unfolds in front of them.

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Painful removals, mission history detailed at inquiry

Aboriginal people were forced off Country, taken from their families and forced onto missions where they were not allowed to leave, an inquiry has been told.

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Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees

For millennia, Indigenous knowledge holders have passed down lore to the next generation. Much lore describes the relationships between people and Country, including custodial responsibilities to care for other species as kin.

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These men are dancing an ode to Indigenous brotherhood

A story of self-discovery, connection to Country and brotherhood will be performed through dance as part of Brisbane Festival.

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Bunyip birds and brolgas: how can we better protect species important to Indigenous people?

Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga (Grus rubicunda or burraalga in Kamilaroi) have been part of life, lore, spirit, dance and culture with Country for thousands of generations.

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Indigenous rangers sharing knowledge to protect Country

First Nations people at the forefront of protecting country have gathered to share their land and sea management strategies for the first time in a decade.

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Healthy Country, healthy people: how shared knowledge is helping to restore a World Heritage area

Please be advised that the following article contains images of an Indigenous person who has died, which are used with family permission.

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Indigenous Australians want a seat at the table when it comes to conservation. Here’s how we might get there

Globally, many Indigenous people want to help protect their traditional lands and waters, drawing on knowledge stretching back millenia. Indigenous people have an obligation to look after species and habitats that are culturally important to them.

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Restoring logged forests doesn’t mean locking them up as ‘wilderness’ – it means actively managing them

On January 1 this year, the commercial logging of native forests ended in Victoria and Western Australia. It was one of the most significant changes in the history of forest management in Australia.

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Yes, Australia’s environment is on a depressing path – but $7 billion a year would transform it

The condition of Australia’s environment continues to decline. Many Australians wonder if it’s possible to reverse this depressing trajectory – and our landmark assessment released today shows the answer is yes.

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Here’s how to create jobs for First Nations Australians in the clean energy transition

Done well, the renewable energy transition should improve the lives of First Nations Australians. Many are looking for ways to stay on Country, use their knowledge of Country and contribute to industries that align with their values.

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When physical activity programs include cultural elements, they are even better for First Nations people

For First Nations people, social and emotional wellbeing can depend on connection to land, culture, spirituality and community. Disruption to these values can be harmful.

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Emily Kam Kngwarray: stunning retrospective brings perspective – and agency – to an Australian great

The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition contextualises the artist away from the western market, bringing us ‘the old lady’ through the prism of her country, her culture and her community

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'Reflect, listen and learn': Melissa Lucashenko busts colonial myths and highlights Indigenous heroes

This article mentions ongoing colonial violence towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Guide to the classics: Ruth Park’s Harp in the South is a story about Aboriginal Country

Ruth Park’s novel The Harp in the South (1948) is a classic of Australian fiction. Just as television viewers in recent decades would recognise “Ramsay Street” as the fictional centre of Australia’s longest-running television soap opera Neighbours, earlier generations of readers would have recognised with affection “Twelve-and-a-half Plymouth Street”: the…

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Humpback whales hold lore for Traditional Custodians. But laws don't protect species for their cultural significance

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people.

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'The boss of Country', not wild dogs to kill: living with dingoes can unite communities

Aside from humans, dingoes are Australia’s largest land-based predator. They are arguably our most maligned, misunderstood, and mismanaged native species.

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New look at plans for M1 motorway's bridge to the future

An expression of Country is a key feature of the landscape plans.

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Virtual reality is helping Olkola Traditional Owners get back on Country

The Olkola people from Queensland’s very remote Cape York Peninsula gained their land back through a native title claim in 2014. Since then, they have undertaken land management using traditional fire techniques, habitat protection and restoration and cultural tourism.

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Indigenous rangers are burning the desert the right way – to stop the wrong kind of intense fires from raging

Even though it’s still winter, the fire season has already started in Australia’s arid centre. About half of the Tjoritja West MacDonnell National Park west of Alice Springs has burnt this year.

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