by Samantha Mickan | Mar 27, 2020 | Heritage
When you think about cultural heritage, the first thing that may come to mind is artefacts lost in sand and time or places with a past life, where people walked and gathered hundreds maybe thousands of years ago. What you may not know is that cultural heritage extends...
by Bryanna Minchin | Aug 7, 2019 | Heritage
For many years it was widely believed that the indigenous population of Australia lived only a hunter-gatherer lifestyle before European settlement. However, there is growing evidence that Australia’s first nations people practised unique forms of agriculture that...
by Bryanna Minchin | Jul 8, 2019 | Heritage
NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day of Observance Committee) week has been celebrated on the full first week of July since 1957. Every year there is a unique theme chosen to explore a significant issue affecting Indigenous communities. This year NAIDOC week...
by Samantha Mickan | Jul 4, 2019 | Heritage
The Noongar people are the traditional owners of the Perth region and the Swan Coastal Plain in particular. Noongar means ‘a person of the south-west of Western Australia,’ or the name for the ‘original inhabitants of the south-west of Western Australia’ and are one...
by Sophie Monaco | May 28, 2019 | Heritage
In 1992, Prime Minister of the day, Paul Keating delivered a speech at Sydney’s Redfern Park. In this speech, Keating spoke of recognition. A recognition of Australian history and the suffering and exclusion of indigenous people. Later expressing that Australia...
by Sophie Monaco | Apr 18, 2019 | Heritage
While Australia may lack the narrow cobbled streets of medieval England, grand palaces of the French Renaissance and the painted frescos of Italy; we still have a rich history which comes with its own heritage and cultural values. What is Australia’s Heritage?...
