Australian Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal culture in Australia is not easy to discover. For a long time it wasn't taught at school, so many non-Indigenous Australians know little, if anything, about Aboriginal culture.
The pages on this website are a collection of what I read about Indigenous culture mainly in Aboriginal newspapers. As I learn more I try to put each puzzle piece into place.
I think anybody who does a course on Aboriginal culture just sees Australia so differently. It's very enlightening and gives another dimension to being Australian. —Anna Bell, co-ordinator Aboriginal Support Group Manly Warringah Pittwater [3]
Learn more about Australian Indigenous culture
Only 35% of Australians believe they have a high level of knowledge about Aboriginal culture [1]. Select from the following categories to learn more about a specific field of Aboriginal culture:
Arts
Self-determination
Economy
Education
Health
History
Land
Language
Law &justice People Politics & media Spirituality Sport
How much do you know about Aboriginal culture? Take the Aboriginal knowledge quiz!
Photo Galleries about Aboriginal culture
- Australia Day ceremony: Aboriginal people perform a ceremony to open Australia Day.
- Uncovering Aboriginal rock engravings: An achaeologist and an Aboriginal elder supervise the discovery of hidden engravings.
What can you do to support Aboriginal culture?
Read what happened to me when I displayed the Aboriginal flag and read tips about how to help and promote Aboriginal culture.
Support Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal Australia Information Deficit Syndrome – AAIDS
You might be here because you too are suffering from the Aboriginal Australia Information Deficit Syndrome. Millions
of Australians do and a cure seems far away.
The Aboriginal Australia Information Deficit Syndrome (AAIDS)
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The Aboriginal cultural heritage is a treasure cave, and once you walk inside and begin to glimpse at its crystalline insights, truths and tenets, it is impossible to look at the world in the same way again.—John Danalis, author [2]
Aboriginal culture resources
Check out these resources which help you get started or deeply immersed into Aboriginal culture. Browse also books by Aboriginal authors to get an unfiltered, first-hand account.
Book: The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia deeply explores Aboriginal culture providing maps, diagrams, illustrations and artworks by Indigenous artists.
Book: First Australians for the first time tells Aboriginal history from the perspective of Australia's first people. It is the companion book to the DVD of the same name.
[1] Australian Reconciliation Barometer 2008, comparative report p.21 [2] 'Riding The Black Cockatoo', John Danalis, Allen & Unwin, p.194 [3] 'Protecting a rich heritage', Peninsula Living, 2/2010 p.14