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Sunday essay: back to Moore River and finding family

Children at Norseman Mission. The author’s mum, Violet Newman is in the middle row on the far left.  Image from the collection of...

Found: the earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians

"New Hollanders” depicted in a 1698 edition of the explorer William Dampier’s journal. Courtesy of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i-Mānoa The...

Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriation

Australian literature has a long history of appropriating and misrepresenting Aboriginal culture. Tom Williams Non-Indigenous Australian writers face a dilemma. On the one hand, they can...

The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes

Detail from Witchetty Grub Dreaming, Jennifer Napaljarri Lewis, Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu.  Courtesy of the artist Rich visual parallels between Indigenous artworks and microscopic natural...

Why a separate holiday for Indigenous Australians misses the point

Invasion Day protests have been growing in size and number across the country in recent years. Glenn Hunt/AAP Prime Minister Scott Morrison has floated...

Sunday essay: who owns a family’s story? Why it’s time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo

Vincent Copley senior and Vincent Copley junior at Redbanks Conservation Park, Burra, in June, 2018. They are holding Ngadjuri book, with their grandfather...

Grattan on Friday: Morrison ticks the boxes but can’t hide the dysfunction

Morrison’s preacher-style stump speech invoking Menzies sent some wider messages. Simon Dallinger/AAP Scott Morrison is approaching a prime ministership that fell into his lap in...

How unearthing Queensland’s ‘native police’ camps gives us a window onto colonial violence

Ammunition found at a mounted police camp   at Eyre Creek. Lynley Wallis In 19th century Queensland, the Native Mounted Police were responsible for...

‘You don’t belong to my country either.’ How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from home

An engraving of Dirimera and Conaci by Giuseppe Mochettitaken from a daguerreotype of April 5 1852.   Acc no 77930P. With acknowledgements to the Archives...

When did Aboriginal people first arrive in Australia?

Humans would have first seen Kata Tjuta very shortly after arriving in Australia 50,000 years ago.  Alan Cooper, Author provided Many Aboriginal Australians would...
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Mikyla Cara Drops Infectious New Single: “If u Don’t Mind”

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Unleashing the Power of Content: A Guide to Effective Content Marketing

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CARL NIELSEN DESIGN ACCELERATOR

  Applications are now open for the Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator, supported by a generous bequest from Carl and Judy Nielsen. The accelerator is open to...

Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.