Cultural mapping

Facing new worlds: comparative histories of Australasia and North America

Facing New Worlds turns around a major exhibition to be held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 in conjunction with the Smithsonian.

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.

Juungambala: More-than-human agreement making with/as Gumbaynggirr Country

This project arises out of Gumbaynggirr Country, its stories, songlines and relationships.

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.

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

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.

New ways for old ceremonies: an archival research project

The research aims were successfully achieved in developing and implementing suitable Indigenous frameworks for preservation, interpretation and dissemination of recordings of ceremonial performance