Language also carries meaning beyond the words themselves. It is a platform which allows cultural knowledge to be passed on. For Indigenous Australian people, the great Ancestral beings brought language with them. So speaking in language is also a powerful connection to the ancestral spirits. ...
Adelaide, on then-National Aborigines Day, it immediately resonated with Australia’s First Nations people. And every time over the past 50 years it has flown, it has grown in significance and meaning.
The origin of the word Maroubra is thought to have come from an Indigenous language word "Marubrah" meaning 'lightening' or 'thunder'. Since 1907, the Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club flag and uniform has honoured this connection. What does Bondi mean in Aboriginal?
From gateway destinations like Sydney, to Central Australia or the red earth of the Kimberley, Aboriginal people across the country are waiting to tell their stories and share the meaning of their cultures and way of life. “The main thing overseas visitors want to experience is the Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal Flag Torres Strait Islander Flag Our Stories The Fitzroy Stars - A Place for Community Deadly Story got the opportunity to sit down and chat with former Fitzroy Stars... Read More Bubup Wilam - 'Children's Place' Bubup Wilam, meaning “Children’s Place” in the Woiwurrung langu...
‘woke’ originally meant to be awake to social injustice, particularly injustices about race. Its meaning however has been hijacked and subverted in recent years with the word now being used to suggest ‘a performative, insincere social consciousness, and inherent weakness. It’s a pjgorative ...
centre is being built, following 20 years of planning and advocacy and a $9m federal government investment. Thanks to a partnership between Aboriginal health workers and non-Indigenous GPs, Moorundi has grown into an organisation with more than 40 staff in Murray Bridge, Raukkan and Victor ...
“By WAM Clothing now having complete licenses over the flag it is tainting and taking away from what that flag used to represent. To me the flag represented my pride and my strength in my identity—but I can’t say that it’s representing that same thing knowing that a questio...