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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.

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.

Preventative actions will help ensure you're prepared year-round in the event of a natural disaster. Focus Areas: Around your home Around your property Health and Safety Before a cyclone During a cyclone After a cyclone

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. 

Extremely popular and economical Australia-NZ wide competition that aligns with the AC. Students and schools get certificates and competition is easy for teachers to run. Please ask me if you have any questions about the Asia-Wise or the Australian History Competition. 

Cairns Regional Council community engagement program for sustainable living in the tropics

Here you'll find animations, Flash interactives, audio-on-demand, collection highlights and (in time) selected video clips. Units of Work are also available.

Good comparison of country statisics

This app for both Android and Apple has potential as a virtual field trip of the Grampians. Free. 

Studying bioluminescence? You will want this app. Beautiful and worthy of all the awards it has received. 

A fabulous app that will only work if you actually move the iPad around physically. Could be a great starter for primary school or lower secondary students. 

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

Gruen Transfer's "The Pitch"

Gruen Transfer's "The Pitch"

Gruen Transfer's "The Pitch"

Journalists, teachers, bloggers and storytellers (to name a few) use Map Tales to chronicle news events, scrapbook holidays, describe walks, plan campaigns, illustrate literature, recount journeys, and bring events to life.

Love this, I think this might be useful for my yr 9 students. They are tracking the production, of a product from the thought to the shelf in a globalisation unit and plotting the locations onto Google Maps at the moment. I think this could be used for the same purpose. I like giving options to the students.

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.

With the GBCA officially launching their new Green Star - Communities PILOT rating tool last week, questions are once again arising surrounding sustainable communities - and rightly so. The human race is living beyond its means, with the impacts of that behaviour evident in human-induced climate change, soil degradation, depleting resources, food scarcity, loss of biodiversity, species extinction and more.

A collection of Geographic Articles: fabulous resources for secondary