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Guide to the classics: Ruth Park’s Harp in the South is a story about Aboriginal Country

Ruth Park’s novel The Harp in the South (1948) is a classic of Australian fiction. Just as television viewers in recent decades would recognise “Ramsay Street” as the fictional centre of Australia’s longest-running television soap opera Neighbours, earlier generations of readers would have recognised with affection “Twelve-and-a-half Plymouth Street”: the…

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Humpback whales hold lore for Traditional Custodians. But laws don't protect species for their cultural significance

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people.

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'The boss of Country', not wild dogs to kill: living with dingoes can unite communities

Aside from humans, dingoes are Australia’s largest land-based predator. They are arguably our most maligned, misunderstood, and mismanaged native species.

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New look at plans for M1 motorway's bridge to the future

An expression of Country is a key feature of the landscape plans.

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Virtual reality is helping Olkola Traditional Owners get back on Country

The Olkola people from Queensland’s very remote Cape York Peninsula gained their land back through a native title claim in 2014. Since then, they have undertaken land management using traditional fire techniques, habitat protection and restoration and cultural tourism.

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Indigenous rangers are burning the desert the right way – to stop the wrong kind of intense fires from raging

Even though it’s still winter, the fire season has already started in Australia’s arid centre. About half of the Tjoritja West MacDonnell National Park west of Alice Springs has burnt this year.

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Trapped: Australia’s extraordinary alpine insects are being marooned on mountaintops as the world warms

We may not pay invertebrates much thought, but they’re the workhorses of all ecosystems. Insects and other invertebrates do essential jobs such as pollinating plants, improving soils and controlling pests. They’re also food for many larger animals, which moves nutrients up the food chain.

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'We live in village with Britain's rudest name and fed up of being the butt of jokes'

People living in a Cornwall village believed to have the rudest name in the country have told how people constantly steal the signs including a group of lads using a car and chains

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Dolly Parton, 77, leaves little to imagination in very risqué outfit on The One Show

BBC viewers joked that The One Show host Roman Kemp 'didn't know where to look' as Country music legend Dolly Parton walked out in an eye-popping ensemble

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Rising has yet to establish its voice – but this year's festival gave us significant and thrilling work by First Nations artists

Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s festival scene, Rising replaced the much-loved White Night festival and the much-celebrated Melbourne International Arts Festival.

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Brenda Matthews was ripped from a loving family twice. But she was born too late to be officially recognised as Stolen Generations

The woman’s face is in profile, her eyes looking into the distance – or the past, or the future. This is a quiet woman, a thoughtful one; possibly one who also carries sadness in her soul. This woman’s face is natural, a face with features as familiar as my own…

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What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria's First Peoples

The end of native forest logging in Victoria announced last week was met with joy from conservationists and shock from timber industry workers.

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'WA's Christmas tree': what mungee, the world's largest mistletoe, can teach us about treading lightly

Noongar Country of southwestern Australia is home to the world’s largest parasitic plant, a mighty mistletoe that blooms every December. That’s why it’s commonly known as WA’s Christmas Tree. But it also goes by other names, mungee and moodjar. And it holds great significance for Noongar people including the Merningar…

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Indigenous author Debra Dank sweeps NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with memoir We Come With This Place

Indigenous author Debra Dank has won a record four out of 14 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and $85,000 for her memoir of family and place, and says she hopes its success draws attention to the "soul-destroying" destruction of her Country.

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Foxtel’s new thriller series set in the heart of Victoria’s Man from Snowy River country

Leah Purcell and Aaron Pederson star in latest local production, High Country, set in heart of Man from Snowy River territory

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Indigenous crime fiction is rare, but in Madukka the River Serpent systemic violence and connection to Country are explored

There is something familiar about Aunty June, the protagonist of Julie Janson’s Madukka the River Serpent.

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Cultural burning is safer for koalas and better for people too

Koalas are an iconic endangered species living in a fire-prone environment. This makes them an ideal subject when investigating solutions to wildfires.

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'A stench of tokenism': how environmental reforms ignore First Nations knowledge

The Albanese government is embarking on a suite of environmental reforms: beefing up Australia’s carbon credit scheme, and establishing a market to fund environmental restoration. These big policy changes may seek to justify colonial practices imposed on First Nations people and their country.

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Coral seeding on floating laboratory has Great Barrier Reef scientists, Woppaburra people hopeful

A floating laboratory off Konomie-North Keppel Island is allowing ecologists to get baby coral onto the reef faster than before, increasing their chances of survival.

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Bell frogs, dugong bones and giant cauliflowers: water stories come to life at Green Square

Did you know the Sydney suburb Rosebery was home to the now-endangered green and golden bell frogs? That enormous cauliflowers were nourished by fresh water springs? And that dugong bones were found during excavation for the Alexandra Canal?

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How 1970s conservation laws turned this ‘paradise on Earth’ into a tinderbox

Southeast Australia’s bushfire crisis culminated in the devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020 that burnt nearly 25 million hectares of bush.

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'We can write novels of memories made here': Elder-led land restoration is about rebuilding love

Content warning: this article contains distressing information about Stolen Generations and residential schools. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people.

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Google Earth is an illusion: how I am using art to explore the problematic nature of western maps and the myth of 'terra nullius'

Within western society, maps are often perceived as scientific, neutral and objective tools. Map making has always been shaped by our social and cultural relationships to the land. In the last 20 years, approaches to map creation have become much more reliant on photographic and digital technologies, including Google Earth.

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Climate change hits some of us much harder than others – but affected groups are fighting back

All around us, climate change is worsening existing disadvantage. In Australia, we need only look to low-income households hit harder by rising energy and fuel prices, and flood responses in northern New South Wales overlooking the needs of people with disability.

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First Nations workers are everywhere. The jobs summit must tackle Indigenous-led employment policy too

This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.

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