Indigenous Culture

A slow-cinema treasure, Grace McKenzie's documentary, Yumburra, traces author Bruce Pascoe's establishment of a farm.

A bronze statue of influential Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue has been unveiled in Adelaide — the first of six monuments of prominent Indigenous South Australians that the state government has planned.

The NSW Cultural Fire Strategy has set a clear timeline to better resource and support Indigenous-led cultural burning. 

Carly Sheppard is perhaps best known for experimental performance, but a coincidental meeting with a fellow dancer convinced her to go back to her roots.

Indigenous elders explain why they believe Welcome to Country ceremonies have faced opposition, and why abandoning the practice would create a cultural "abyss".

The Australian Dance Theatre's first Indigenous artistic director had some dark days after the Voice referendum, but he shines a light on reconciliation in a new outdoor performance set to the rhythm of the rising Sun. 

The Yuin people on the NSW South Coast celebrate two decades of Aboriginal ownership of two national parks. 

In the front yard of her home in the picturesque Whitsundays, Felicity Chapman strips the last pieces of flesh and sinew from a strip of barramundi skin to make wearable leather art. 

The "huge swathes" of Pitjantjatjara lines in the 1949 film Bitter Springs are at last translated. Warning: This story contains images of Indigenous people who have died.

Surfer Jessi Rebel's journeys with art and identity have beaten similar paths — both inspired by one relative's sage piece of advice.

More than a fortnight after winning the largest native title compensation payout ever in Australia, Pilbara leader Michael Woodley returns to his country.

It has been two decades since substantial land hand-backs in Tasmania, so private owners are doing it instead. Near Hobart, a piece of land that was once a dumping ground is being restored.

Members of a First Nations community in Central West NSW say they were devastated to learn a culturally significant rock shelter had been destroyed to make way for a renewable energy project.

Award-winning artist Iluwanti Ken says the withdrawal of funding and support over the "white hands on black art" scandal has left her feeling like a stranger in her own industry.

ACREZ apologises to traditional owners "without reservation" as the NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe expresses her "fury" at the incident.

An Aboriginal stockman whose remains have been held by the South Australian Museum for six decades will this week be returned to Country in a remote national park.

Girramay, Yidinji and Kuku-Yalanji artist Tony Albert hopes to "take every item of 'Aboriginalia' in Australia out of circulation".

The 1963 Näku Dhäruk or Yirrkala bark petitions led to Australia's first land rights law. A new book about them just won two prizes at the NSW Literary Awards.

Dozens of Central Land Council Aboriginal rangers gathered east of Alice Springs last week for the 2026 Women's Ranger Camp — a time for health, learning and healing in the wake of the town's recent loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby. 

APY Art Centre Collective members say a voluntary code of conduct isn't protecting artists from financial exploitation and misconduct in the industry.