Cultural continuity and transmission
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.”
Geographies of co-existence in urban and rural areas
This Indigenous-led project has strengthened place-based responses to environmental change through intergenerational and intercultural knowledge sharing of caring for Country in Gumbaynggirr-led wa
Noongar kaatdijin bidi: Noongar knowledge networks; or, Why is there no Noongar Wikipedia?
Our main achievement is the Noongarpedia incubator site, currently featuring 680 entries, for a planned Noongar-language version of Wikipedia, with community-developed content and Wikimedia-appropr
Beyond recognition: postcolonial relationality across difference.
Through new approaches to practices of relationality and novel findings on the politics of recognition in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Kenya, this project resulted in enhanced capacity for indig
Rock Art of the Western Desert and Great Basin: long term social responses to environmental change
Rock art was integral to modern humans colonising Australia (earth's most arid continent) as well as the deserts of the USA.
Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge
This project seeks to identify ways to protect biodiversity-related Indigenous knowledge.
#thismymob: Digital land rights and reconnecting Indigenous communities
#thismymob: Digital land rights and reconnecting Indigenous communities.
Western Australia from its collections
Collecting the West looks at what's been collected from Western Australia. What do these collections tell us about who we were, who we are and who we can be?