Yarns Parai
Cultural stories of the Lower Hunter region An exhibition at Museum of Art & Culture, Lake Mac, By Soretta Fielding Munibung Hill is one of the featured landscapes in this study. …
Joining the dots – accounting, country, culture
Nothing lives alone nor for itself is a natural phenomenon in nature as elsewhere. Trouble is human society tries at every turn to box things up into discrete portions, which…
Ancient Aboriginal migration across Australia
A map showing the migration routes in the ancient mega-continent of Sahul.(Supplied) Dana Morse (ABC News) reports that: 'New research from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian…
An Earth connection — the best free WiFi we have
Sarah Moss, ABC Illawarra reports on: How Aboriginal culture can teach us how to live with less and tread more lightly. Jamie Thomas is executive director of Wayapa Wuurrk, an…
Reclaiming history through indigenous stories
Coming to terms with our history can be raise all kinds of issues that many people would rather let slide quietly by. But that's not what this new exhibition at…
Healing Country for all our sakes
It might have been the theme or catch phrase for NAIDOC Week in 2021, but it needs to be more than a one off or some kind of sentimental feel good…
Vector silhouette generation women on a white background.
For us to be good ancestors will require a new mindset to take account of future generations
For too long the short term thinking of the present age has discounted the rights of future generations to a quality of life resembling that which we enjoy today. That…
The longtermists geological time view
A short post to remind us that time marches on regardless of what how we might like to hang on to it. From the beginning of time all those 13…
Time to make time for the things that matter
Time from the perspective of the current 24/7 news cycle, where every minute of every hour sees an update in what is considered current news, can for many of us…
First Footprints
Soft minimalist footprints Long before the white fella set foot on Munibung Hill, there was first of all the presence of soft footed animals such as the paws of bandicoots,…