Cultural knowledge

Howitt and Fison carried out some of the earliest anthropological research in Australia and left extensive archival materials on language, kinship, and social organisation.

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

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

The aim of this project is to understand how past people in the riverine landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) were influenced by and adapted to environmental change.

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

Archaeologists have long puzzled over the identity and origin of the 'Toalean' people from Sulawesi, Indonesia.

This project aims to determine how culture and social diversity interact with landscape in representing physical space in the minds and grammars of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages.

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.

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

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