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Indigenous Australians want a seat at the table when it comes to conservation. Here’s how we might get there

Globally, many Indigenous people want to help protect their traditional lands and waters, drawing on knowledge stretching back millenia. Indigenous people have an obligation to look after species and habitats that are culturally important to them.

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Restoring logged forests doesn’t mean locking them up as ‘wilderness’ – it means actively managing them

On January 1 this year, the commercial logging of native forests ended in Victoria and Western Australia. It was one of the most significant changes in the history of forest management in Australia.

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Yes, Australia’s environment is on a depressing path – but $7 billion a year would transform it

The condition of Australia’s environment continues to decline. Many Australians wonder if it’s possible to reverse this depressing trajectory – and our landmark assessment released today shows the answer is yes.

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Here’s how to create jobs for First Nations Australians in the clean energy transition

Done well, the renewable energy transition should improve the lives of First Nations Australians. Many are looking for ways to stay on Country, use their knowledge of Country and contribute to industries that align with their values.

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When physical activity programs include cultural elements, they are even better for First Nations people

For First Nations people, social and emotional wellbeing can depend on connection to land, culture, spirituality and community. Disruption to these values can be harmful.

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Emily Kam Kngwarray: stunning retrospective brings perspective – and agency – to an Australian great

The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition contextualises the artist away from the western market, bringing us ‘the old lady’ through the prism of her country, her culture and her community

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'Reflect, listen and learn': Melissa Lucashenko busts colonial myths and highlights Indigenous heroes

This article mentions ongoing colonial violence towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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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.

Newcastle Herald

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

Daily Mirror

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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