NAIDOC Week: What are kids today learning about Tasmania's Aboriginal history?
7 years, 8 months ago

NAIDOC Week: What are kids today learning about Tasmania's Aboriginal history?

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"Shocked", "upset" and "proud" are some of the reactions from 11-year-old Tasmanian school children to an Aboriginal history lesson. "I learnt that when the British came to Tasmania the Aboriginal people actually tried to be peaceful," he said. "The experience for young Aboriginal people in the 60s and 70s was a very isolating one because the discussion of culture and Australian identity did not include anything at all really about Aboriginal people," he said Mr Lehman said it was important the curriculum continued to evolve. "It is really important we don't get caught up in that discourse of deficit about Aboriginal culture and people being all about loss, and not forget that there was also a lot of success to be celebrated" he said.

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Indigenous Tasmanians calling on private landholders to share access to cultural sites
2 years, 8 months ago

Indigenous Tasmanians calling on private landholders to share access to cultural sites

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A Northern Midlands farmer has opened his farm to local Indigenous groups to give access to significant cultural sites, prompting a call by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre for more farmers to do the same. embodies the determination of Tasmanian Aboriginals to foster culture on country Indigenous land management skills are being taught to a Tasmanian farmer in a joint cultural …

The rebirth of Tasmanian indigenous culture
3 years, 5 months ago

The rebirth of Tasmanian indigenous culture

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The rebirth of Tasmanian indigenous culture Southern Lightscapes-Australia/Getty Images Although many people believe that this ancient culture and people were lost, recent years have seen a seismic shift in recognition for indigenous Tasmanians. In those early decades, palawa suffered a series of atrocities, from being forced into missions by the state's so-called Chief Protector of Aborginals, George Augustus Robinson, to …

Apology for Aboriginal art and cultural thefts to Tasmanian Indigenous communities long time coming
4 years, 1 month ago

Apology for Aboriginal art and cultural thefts to Tasmanian Indigenous communities long time coming

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Two of Tasmania's oldest institutions have apologised to the state's Aboriginal community for "nearly 200 years of practices were morally wrong". Key points: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Royal Society of Tasmania say they are "unreservedly sorry" for practices they admit were "morally wrong" The institutions played pivotal roles in exhuming Aboriginal bodies and stealing artefacts in …

Indigenous culture should be in Australian school curriculum, elder says
4 years, 4 months ago

Indigenous culture should be in Australian school curriculum, elder says

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According to Darumbal elder Uncle Wade Mann, Indigenous Australian culture should become an independent subject in the national curriculum. Key points: Uncle Wade Mann says schools are becoming better at incorporating Indigenous culture A Rockhampton school with a 25 per cent Indigenous cohort recently launched its Reconciliation Action Plan Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories is a "cross-curriculum priority" but …

Keeping Aboriginal culture and songlines alive in South Australia's Flinders Ranges
5 years, 8 months ago

Keeping Aboriginal culture and songlines alive in South Australia's Flinders Ranges

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The Flinders Ranges in South Australia are known for their rich Aboriginal history and now Barngarla woman Jonas Dare and Wiradjuri woman Jaja Dare are trying to preserve it. "Through this gallery, we're able to possibly have ladies sitting here doing workshops, talking about songlines and they start making money selling their art," Jonas Dare said. "It's very important because …

NAIDOC Week: What can we teach our kids about welcome to country?
7 years, 8 months ago

NAIDOC Week: What can we teach our kids about welcome to country?

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Bangerang man Scott Kneebone is a father of three, so he's no stranger to answering tricky questions. "Part of teaching my kids about cultural appreciation is teaching them about why they should care about a welcome to country." "A welcome to country is similar to when it's your turn to host a birthday party," Mr Kneebone said. "If you don't …

Tasmania adds 'missing chapter' to constitution, officially recognising Indigenous owners
8 years, 3 months ago

Tasmania adds 'missing chapter' to constitution, officially recognising Indigenous owners

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Tasmania has joined the rest of the country in officially recognising the state's first peoples, adding the "missing chapter" to its constitution. The amended preamble to the Tasmanian Constitution Act now reads: "And whereas the Parliament, on behalf of all the people of Tasmania, acknowledges the Aboriginal people as Tasmania's First People and the traditional and original owners of Tasmanian …

NAIDOC Week: Indigenous youth keeping songlines alive around Australia
8 years, 8 months ago

NAIDOC Week: Indigenous youth keeping songlines alive around Australia

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Songlines, sometimes called dreaming tracks, crisscross Australia and trace the journeys of ancestral spirits as they created the land, animals and lore. Australian Capital Territory The Smith family — Nakiya, 19, Bevan, 20 and Dylan, 23 — run pre-school programs with their father around Canberra where they teach young kids about Indigenous heritage and culture. Queensland Torita Isaac is an …

NAIDOC Week marchers call for protection of Tasmanian cultural landscape
8 years, 8 months ago

NAIDOC Week marchers call for protection of Tasmanian cultural landscape

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About 100 people have marched in Tasmania's north-west calling on the state and federal governments to protect Aboriginal cultural areas from destruction. Trudy Maluga from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre said marchers wanted to send a strong message. "Federally all the Liberal candidates no longer are serving and Labor has taken over, so we are saying especially to Will Hodgman 'start …

Tasmanian Aboriginal community seeks control of welfare decisions affecting children
10 years ago

Tasmanian Aboriginal community seeks control of welfare decisions affecting children

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Tasmania's Aboriginal community wants to be given control of child protection and welfare decisions for Aboriginal children. The report's author, Heather Sculthorpe, said when Aboriginal children were removed under child protection orders in Tasmania they were rarely returned to their families. "There is a disproportionate number of Aboriginal children who get taken away from their families, they are lost then …

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