Indigenous Knowledge

This is a landmark document addressing Traditional Owner involvement in land and water management throughout the region. The plan was developed in consultation with Traditional Owner groups located in the Burdekin Dry Tropics region, North Queensland.

IPAs are areas of land and sea managed by Indigenous groups as protected areas for biodiversity conservation through voluntary agreements with the Australian Government.

Bureau of Meteorology Indigenous Weather Knowledge website displays seasonal weather calendars, developed over thousands of years by Indigenous communities.

This project focuses on the impacts and adaptation strategies for Indigenous Australian communities living in northern Australia in the face of climate change.

Our Knowledge Our Way in caring for Country: Indigenous-led approaches to strengthening and sharing our knowledge for land and sea management.

Indigenous language groups from across Australia have partnered with CSIRO to co-develop seasonal calendars.

From the Australian Council of Deans of Science, led by Angela Ziebell and researched by Krystal De Napoli (both from Monash University), the site provides access to a range of high quality resources for tertiary science educators.

A resource site for Indigenous health workers and researchers, and a site for collaborative projects. See in particular Voice Referendum: Social and Emotional Wellbeing Resources

Australia’s national institute for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Research.

NACCHO is the national peak Aboriginal health body representing Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services throughout Australia.

The AH&MRC assists Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services across NSW to ensure they have access to an adequately resourced and skilled workforce to provide high-quality health care services for Aboriginal communities.

Department of Health website

Interactive map of Aboriginal Australia created by David Horton. based on language data gathered by Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, (1996).

Includes resources such as Gambay First Languages map, Wandan collections portal and the 50 Words Project.

Provides information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages which has been assembled from a number of referenced sources.

A leading regional language centre that provides strategic support to revitalise the languages of seven Aboriginal communities of central to north coast NSW.

Edited by David Nathan, this site has annotated links to 231 resources for about 80 languages. About 35% of these resources are produced or published by Indigenous people.

Aims to make accessible the rich archival collections of the State Library of New South Wales. The site features historic word lists, records and other documents relating to Indigenous Australian languages.

Includes an interactive QLD languages map.

A useful map to identify alternative spellings for Aboriginal Country names.

Here is a list of some greeting words or phrases from a range of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, from Queensland State Library.

Information from the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

Edited by the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of technology, APO is a news service and library specialising in Australian public policy reports and articles from academic research centres, think tanks, government and non-government organisations.

Based at UNSW Law, the only Indigenous law centre in Australia.

National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee website documents the activities that take place across Australia during NAIDOC Week in the first full week of July. NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Indigenous history archive and education resource project, maintained by Gary Foley.

This research guide highlights some of the significant collections held by the National Library of Australia which relate to the 1967 Referendum.

This map identifies sites of frontier massacre of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people across Australia from 1788 to 1930.

A fortnightly national newspaper reporting on the issues that matter to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

NIT offers reporting on the issues that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

NIRS provides hourly news bulletins Mondays to Fridays to First Nations community radio stations across the country. It is also a content sharing platform of First Nations programming including current affairs and specialist shows focused on sports, youth, arts, culture, law/lore, language and the arts.

Australia's premier Indigenous current affairs program, providing timely, intelligent and comprehensive coverage of the issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

A community broadcasting service run by Gadigal Information Service.

Run by Brisbane Indigenous Media Association, also a contributor to the National Indigenous Radio Service.

Documentary, film and television titles written and directed by Indigenous Australians

Aggregates Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander stories from around the ABC & around Australia.

News stories with an Indigenous focus

CAAMA is owned and run by Aboriginal people of Central Australia, promoting Aboriginal culture, language, dance and music while generating economic benefits in the form of training, employment and income generation.

An Aboriginal media, PR and events group of companies with a suite of fully integrated communication products that are utilised and enjoyed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.

AIATSIS is the world’s premier institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present. The Institute undertakes and encourages scholarly, ethical community-based research, holds a priceless collection of films, photographs, video and audio recordings and the world’s largest collections of printed and other resource material.

Provides up to date information on programs and services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

NSW government department supporting the social, cultural and economic aspirations of Aboriginal people in NSW.

Provides links to a range of QLD government websites and services.

This Productivity Commission report measures the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

An independent, not-for-profit body established in January 2001 to provide a continuing national focus for reconciliation. This site includes a wide range of publications, speeches and media releases as well as an archive of documents for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1991-2000.

CAEPR is based at Australian National University, the Centre's mission is to contribute to better outcomes for Indigenous Australians by informing constructive academic and public debates based on innovative research; analysing changes in Indigenous socio-economic status; and informing and influencing policy formation.

Based at University of the Sunshine Coast, the Centre partners with Indigenous, migrant, refugee and culturally diverse communities to deliver impactful research nationally and internationally.

An Indigenous-led health and wellbeing research centre located within the Australian Health Services Research Institute at the University of Wollongong.

Based at University of Technology Sydney.