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Traditional symbols are an essential part of much contemporary Aboriginal art. Our online galleries offer a wide range of art works using traditional and contemporary imagery and symbols. Aboriginal peoples have long artistic traditions within which they use conventional designs and symbols. Some of these symbols represent the weather.

A conceptual framework based on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' unique sense of Identity has been developed as a structural tool for the embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures within the Australian curriculum. This sense of Identity is approached through the interconnected aspects of Country/Place, People and Culture.

For many thousands of years, fire management has played a critical role in the lives of Central Australia's Aboriginal people. For Aboriginal people there were and are many uses for fire that serve physical, social, cultural, and spiritual, as well as ecological, needs.

We learn so much through stories that are told by those who have experienced the world and are connected to the environment in which they live. We have finally begun in Australia to ask our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share their insights and knowledge about our rivers, so that we can learn how to interpret and link science to practice and experiential understanding.

Welcome to one of the most beautiful and vibrant living cultural landscapes in Australia - the traditional country of Rainforest Aboriginal people, the Traditional Owners of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area! Talk to any Indigenous person across Australia about where they are from and you will hear them refer to... .

Students are provided with the opportunity to discuss and understand the long history of Aboriginal culture through rock paintings. It is important to emphasise with students that many of these paintings are considered sacred and should not be seen by members of other cultures. However, a number of Indigenous elders now feel that it is important for others to see and understand these paintings so that they can appreciate the complexity and long history of their culture. Search Scootle to access digital resource using name or digital resource code.

Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law.

How Uluru was formed dreamtime story.

This resource provides a vehicle for discussing the importance of sharing traditional knowledge and values. Students can consider the importance of this knowledge in the forming of identity. They can discuss how groups maintain their traditional values and traditions as well as those of modern Australia. Search Scootle to access digital resource using name or digital resource code.

This document will assist teachers with a deeper understanding /strategy for embedding the cross curriculum priorities into your planning documents. This tool presents nine statements for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective, eight statements for Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia and nine statements for Sustainability to assist with organisation of ideas.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have managed their lands for tens of thousands of years. The land, and its natural resources, provide an economic base, underpin Indigenous history, innovation and culture, and are fundamental to Indigenous spiritual beliefs. Indigenous land managers also face natural resource management challenges such as weed and feral animal invasions, and of achieving economic sustainability.

My Country by William Santo: ISBN 1-86334-017-3 William Santos quest to reclaim his own Gudjal language from around Charters Towers, Queensland, led to his creation of small picture word books containing his own lively paintings of animals, birds and the environment. The pictures were first produced as posters to teach children the Gudjal language, in the local schools. The books are read by Keesha Marie Kelly, William Santos daughter. Black Ink Press is a community-based Indigenous writing, illustrating and publishing project based in North Queensland. It trains and mentors emerging writers and artists in order to create contemporary illustrated books especially for young Indigenous readers. It supports Australian Indigenous languages. Black Ink Press is part of the CCDEU (Congress Community Development & Education Unit Ltd.), an activity of the Uniting Aboriginal & Islander Christian Congress. For further information about Black Ink Press visit www.blackinkpress.com.au Black Ink books are distributed by Australian Book Group. www.australianbookgroup.com.au

Introduction We are the first people of our lands. These are some of our stories from where we have lived so long. We welcome you to know about us, about our culture, this way. 12 Canoes This website is built for us, for everyone.

Indigenous Australians have long held their own seasonal calendars based on the local sequence of natural events. To the right is a map of Australia with hyperlinks to the corresponding seasonal calendars for given regions.

This clip chosen to be G Clip description Rain falls heavily, the streets of the community are quiet, and Moses sits drinking tea on the porch of a house in the community of Numbulwar, Wandu, where he is from, has been flooded in.

Call for dialogue on Indigenous water policy Peter Yu, Chair of NAILSMA, has supported calls for the NT Government to reinstate the Strategic Indigenous Reserve (SIR) water policy ensuring a foundation for an equitable approach to Indigenous participation in the current and developing economies of the Territory and across northern Australia.

North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance - useful information is under "Programs". Might be worth contacting them directly if you are after specific information or referral to community elders. 

Cape treasures is a collection of animations/group stories by children from four communities in Cape York

Wonderful app for Primary Students studying Australian environments. Best of all, FREE. 

Kanyini is a story told by an Uncle Bob Randall, who lives beside the world's greatest monolith, Uluru, in Central Australia. Based on Bob's own personal journey and the wisdom he learnt from the old people living in the bush, Bob tells the tale of why Indigenous people are now struggling in a modern world and what needs to be done from them to move forward. A tale of Indigenous wisdom clashing against materialist notions of progress, this is not only a story of one man and his people but the story of the human race. Kanyini is a Ptjantjatjara word meaning interconnectedness; to care for, to support, to nurture and protect

A series of short videos about the effects on climate change on indigenous communities in a variety of geographic regions.