The Healing Foundation urges all schools to teach the Stolen Generations story and Australia’s full history. The Healing Foundation is urging all Australian schools to include the story of the Stolen Generations in their curriculum to ensure students have a better understanding of the full history of Australia, which dates
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Professor Sarah Wright, a human geographer from the University of Newcastle is part of a collective of women who were joint winners of the Prime Minister’s literary awards non-fiction category. The Gay’wu Group of Women, including Professor Sarah Wright (standing second from the left). The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards encourage
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Over the past week, the Aboriginal-owned Worimi Conservation Lands north of Newcastle has hosted a series of Aboriginal Site Identification Courses, to improve understanding and protection of Worimi cultural sites. NPWS officer Craig Wall and Worimi Visitor Service Assistant Rachel Syron Worimi Conservation Lands Board of Management Chair Jamie Tarrant
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Caring for Country in schools reconciliation challenge. The annual Schools Reconciliation Challenge has an online exhibition with the theme Caring for Country. Minmi Public School students Lachlan, Lily and Giselle show their artwork with teacher Mr James Griffiths. Student artwork and stories reflecting what reconciliation means to young people is
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The Orana Foundation launches their Indigenous Food Database. The Foundation commissioned The University of Adelaide as their research partner to deliver on four key projects: Indigenous Food Database: to build a native food database to collate knowledge of Australian plants (native and introduced) that have been used for food by
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