indigenous australians
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‘Digital Land Rights’: Co-Designing Technologies With Indigenous Australians
Can digital technologies play a role in “closing the gap” in the 21st century?
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World’s Scientists Turn To Australia To Rewrite Human History
Where did we humans come from? Some 40 or so years ago, our origins seemed quite straight forward. But now we see that the human story is far more complex. As summarised by Christopher Bae and colleagues in their latest paper just published in Science, data from Asia and Australia is becoming vital in piecing…
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Google Mapped Uluru For Street View, But Should It Have?
For the Anangu people, knowledge is the basis of society. It is given by the Elders when you reach a milestone in your life, when you are worthy of it. But when your land has attracted 250,000 tourists a year since the 1950’s, how do you strike the balance between educating about the importance of…
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Aboriginal DNA Shows 50,000 Year Connection To Country
DNA in hair samples collected from Aboriginal people across Australia in the early to mid-1900s has revealed that populations have been continuously present in the same regions for up to 50,000 years. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the included video in this article may contain images and voices of deceased…