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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

Daily Mirror · Jun 30, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Jun 22, 2023

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…

The Conversation · Jun 13, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Mar 20, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Mar 15, 2023

'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.

The Conversation · Feb 28, 2023

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.

ABC News · Nov 15, 2022

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?

The Conversation · Nov 14, 2022

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.

The Conversation · Oct 31, 2022

'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.

The Conversation · Oct 20, 2022