Australia: resources & travel

Travel Western Australia

• Visit the Aboriginal communities of the Dampier peninsula.
• Read The Carers of Everything, a fascinating Aboriginal story.
• Learn why thousands of Aboriginal rock engravings are under threat on the Burrup Peninsula.

Travel New South Wales

Learn about Aboriginal Sydney:

• Explore three Aboriginal sites near Bondi Beach.
• Trace Aboriginal culture at Circular Quay.
• Do the Spit Bridge to Manly walk and discover seven sites of Aboriginal significance.

Multimedia galleries

Woggan-ma-gule—An Aboriginal ceremony for Australia Day

Each year Aboriginal people perform an opening ceremony near the Botanic Gardens in Sydney. The ceremony maintains age-old custodial traditions.

Woggan-ma-gule—An Aboriginal ceremony for Australia Day

Antar Sea of Hands

The Antar Sea of Hands is an arrangement of plastic hands in the colours of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags promoting awareness.

Antar Sea of Hands

Uncovering Aboriginal rock engravings

An Aboriginal custodian, an archaeologist and a rock art conservator uncover an Aboriginal rock engraving site with members of the public—in the middle of a densely-populated suburb of Sydney.

Uncovering Aboriginal rock engravings