Cultural continuity and transmission

Our country, our healer: exploring the traditional lithotherapeutics of the Aboriginal pharmacopoeia

Aboriginal people of the Greater Hunter region of New South Wales had access to two exceptional geological formations, which provided them with access to valuable mineral resources.

Oceanic encounters: exchange, desire, violence

This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the long

Australia’s Epic Story

Now is the Time to tell a culturally inclusive, globally significant human and environmental history of Australia. We like to call it, Australia’s Epic Story.

Archaeology and Natural History

This project aims to provide critical new information on the archaeology and natural history of one of the world’s largest unregulated desert river systems.

Children born of war: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 - 1944

The Project worked with more than forty Children Born of War in Australia, most born to Indigenous Australian mothers and African American fathers during the second world war, to document their exp

Has it always burned so hot? Fuel and fire in southeast Australian forests.

Indigenous cultural burning has been raised as a way of mitigating against climate-driven catastrophic bushfires in southeast Australian forests.

Remaking the Australian environment through documentary film and television

This project aims to investigate how documentary film, television and online media have transformed our sense of the Australian environment since the 1950s.

Message sticks: Long-distance communication in Indigenous Australia

Message sticks are marked wooden objects that were once used throughout Indigenous Australia to convey important information between communities.

Contemporary Indigenous film and television: new frames of understanding

Australian Indigenous film and television has exploded into the mainstream of the national media landscape over the last five years and is now a leading sector of the local industry.

Constructing Communities on Country: Building the Olkola Knowledge Centre

“Mumpul Olkol-arrgi irryidgam arrdapuur arling ampul Olkol arrgi-irrkun.”