Topics: Culture

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West - view

Uncle Neddy , who cared for him and shared old stories and knowledge with him and his mother

Central - view

Uncle Gordon Briscoe remembers The Greek Café in Redfern as a place of continuity for Aboriginal people. It was a convenient meeting place for families where they could have tea or a milkshake and then hop on a tram and explore the rest of Sydney.

South West - view

Auntie Frances Bodkin describes how stories travelled across the continent, tracing trade routes

West - view

being shown sites at Penrith.

North Coastal - view

a recent ceremony and re-understandings have brought them together again .

South West - view

Auntie Glenda Chalker discusses the history of known remains from the Appin Massacre of 1816, which some of her ancestors survived and some may not have

Central - view

the power of creating and letting all Aboriginal people dance in their own way, be that traditional or contemporary.

South West - view

Auntie Frances Bodkin explains how Aboriginal science, unlike Western science, has always highlighted the importance of connections

West - view

Uncle Gordon Morton speaks of his work with archaeologists to preserve artifacts

North Coastal - view

Women’s and Men’s Business that is all through this country

South West - view

Auntie Glenda Chalker describes her relationship to country

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Uncle Dennis shares their stories and his memories of the individuals and families and the connections between them, giving an insight into what they meant to each other.

Central - view

To imbue the college with practices and values and principles that are truly Aboriginal

South West - view

tells of traditioinal stories that teach of the near and distant past . She also explains the differences between D’harawal peoples depending on which waterways they are most connected to, yet how they are all linked by these waterways.

North Coastal - view

Songlines that go across present day Sydney, into Queensland and across to Central Australia

North Coastal - view

sacred sites

South West - view

Glenda Chalker describes hopes to return to traditional fire practices, and the ways that her family are reclaiming other traditional ways

West - view

it was some kind of sacred ground, even though you can’t see anything

West - view

story teller explains that it is not just entertainment, there is a teaching in it as well. He goes on to play the story of the joey who couldn’t jump the fence on the didgeridoo.

South West - view

Auntie Frances Bodkin , speaking with Karen Maber , tells part one of the story of the lyrebird and how it came to speak all languages.