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70 Breathtaking Photos Shortlisted For Australian Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year

The Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year celebrates the breathtaking landscapes, wildlife, and natural wonders of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, and New Guinea, an extraordinary region whose natural history stretches back more than 80 million years to the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.

Bored Panda · Jul 1

Community healing together as ancestors reburied

As Aboriginal ancestors are reburied at a special memorial park, the Indigenous community says it is time to walk together and heal.

AAP · Oct 20, 2025

Undescribed species of beetle that feeds on snake poo found near Uluru during national park fauna survey

The apparently undescribed species of Trogidae beetle, which is believed to feed on snake excrement, was found by an entomologist during a national park fauna survey near Uluru.

ABC News · Mar 1, 2023

Kaurna remains return to country

The second group of Kaurna Aboriginal ancestral remains held by the South Australian Museum have been reburied at the Wangayarta Memorial Park in Adelaide.

AAP · Jun 28, 2022

Paul Daley's Jesustown: a novel of lurid, postcolonial truth-telling

How can fiction contribute to the “truth” that the Uluru Statement asks us to tell? Allen and Unwin’s answer to that question is, in part, one of paratext. By composing a book’s paratext, a publisher addresses the reader about how to experience the book. The paratext of Paul Daley’s Jesustown…

The Conversation · Jun 26, 2022

Mr Gurruwiwi, globally-renowned master of the yidaki, dies in Arnhem Land

Mr Gurruwiwi was known as a genius, had toured the world, made Yothu Yindu's yidakis, and generously shared his instrument with people, including Gotye, who appeared in a biopic about his legacy. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains an image of a person who…

ABC News · May 12, 2022

‘Beginnings got lost’: fabled Aboriginal art on show 40 years after disappearance

Important paintings lay forgotten in storage since the early 80s until their discovery, muddy and mouldy, but intact

The Guardian - AU · Jan 29, 2022