Tag: Indigenous Culture
An NT Aboriginal teacher vows to continue teaching her language
A Yolgnu community leader and bilingual teacher has vowed to continue teaching in Yolgnu Matha next year.[MORE]
Indigenous culture preservation goes high-tech
Modern technology is being used to preserve an ancient culture in the Daintree Rainforest in far north Queensland.[MORE]
Govt petitioned to preserve Indigenous languages
A peak national Indigenous language group is petitioning the Government to step up measures to preserve native languages.[MORE]
Heads clash over bilingual education
The Race Discrimination Commissioner and NT Education Minister have locked horns over bilingual education. [MORE]
Green light for Indigenous cultural centre
Planning of an Aboriginal cultural centre at Myall Creek near Bingara will proceed after approval was given at a public meeting on the weekend.[MORE]
Class language limit 'death of our culture': Aboriginal school head
The head of a remote Aboriginal school says the Government's plan to limit the hours classes can be taught in traditional languages could lead to the death of their culture.[MORE]
Myall Creek Indigenous cultural centre mooted
Plans will be discussed this weekend for an Aboriginal cultural centre at Myall Creek near Bingara in [MORE]
Indigenous repatriation policies reviewed
A national Indigenous repatriation summit in Brisbane has been told the process needs to be clearer.[MORE]
Indigenous cultural centre on hold
Plans for a $1.5 million Wiradjuri Cultural and Learning Centre in Orange have been put on hold.[MORE]
100 years later, Indigenous man to be reburied
Indigenous people will gather at Nebo in north Queensland tomorrow for the reburial of remains of a man taken from his family 100 years ago.[MORE]
Work to begin on Indigenous study centre
Construction is about to start on a $1.6 million Indigenous study centre in Condobolin.[MORE]
Elder wants greater sacred site protection
A Yorke Peninsula Aboriginal elder wants Federal Government action to protect and preserve Indigenous heritage and cultural sites.[MORE]
Barnett urged to stop Burrup plant
Environmentalists are urging Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett to stop a $600 million proposal to build an ammonia nitrate plant on the Burrup Peninsula.[MORE]
CAAMA drama nominated for AFI award
The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) has been nominated for an Australian Film Institute award for its first children's television drama.[MORE]
Indigenous hunters prepare for fishing restriction lobby group
A group of southern Queensland Indigenous hunters have formed a working group to set up a state lobby group.[MORE]
Indigenous TV channel begins broadcasting
A national Indigenous television network, established by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders last year, will begin broadcasting on digital channel 40 to homes in the Sydney metropolitan area from today.[MORE]
Group to represent Indigenous hunters, fishers
The first steps to form a group representing Indigenous hunting and fishing in Queensland will be taken at a meeting today in Bundaberg in the state's south-east.[MORE]
Elders' stories celebrated in DVD
A DVD designed to give Indigenous people more involvement in the management of natural resources has been launched in the Avon Valley.[MORE]
An Aboriginal language faces extinction
A doctor of linguistics at the Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Languages says a local indigenous tongue once widely spoken in the Daly River region could disappear within ten years.[MORE]
Aborigines seek school history input
Tasmania's Aboriginal community is concerned about the Federal Government's plan to increase history teaching in schools.[MORE]
NT police defend actions over Indigenous suicide
The Northern Territory police force has defended the actions of officers surrounding a death in custody in Arnhem Land.[MORE]
Yunupingu wins Deadly prizes
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has scooped the pool at the 2008 Deadly Awards.[MORE]
Call for more Indigenous doctors
The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association (AIDA) says Aboriginal children need better education so they can become health workers and doctors. [MORE]
Most Indigenous languages 'unlikely to continue'
A linguistics professor says it takes several generations to revive a language and many Indigenous languages are at risk of being lost.[MORE]
Arnhem Land community protests against intervention
An Arnhem Land community has launched a protest against the federal intervention by posting a film about a traditional dance ceremony on the internet.[MORE]
