Science Daily

Indigenous cultural burning has protected Australia's landscape for millennia, study finds

Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to new ...
JSTOR Daily

Cross-Cultural Monitoring of a Cultural Keystone Species Informs Revival of Indigenous Burning of Country in South-Eastern Australia

Michelle B. McKemey, Maureen (Lesley) Patterson, Banbai Rangers, Emilie J. Ens, Nick C. H. Reid, John T. Hunter, Oliver Costello, Malcolm Ridges, Cara Miller https ...
Reuters

As Australia braces for bushfire season, Indigenous 'cultural burning' makes a comeback

BILLEN CLIFFS VILLAGE, Australia, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Smoke sweeps through the treetops as a fire consumes the dense undergrowth of the Australian winter bush. To the uninitiated, the fire might ...
The Conversation

Australia’s coastal waters are rich in Indigenous cultural heritage, but it remains hidden and under threat

Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University Jonathan Benjamin receives funding from the ...
Mongabay

What does land mean to Australia’s Indigenous groups fighting logging?

Many Indigenous Gumbaynggirr people in Australia feel an intimate connection to their ancestral lands, which holds the trees, animals, ancestral spirits and creation stories that form a core part of ...
Self

Here’s What Indigenous Cultural Appropriation in Wellness Culture Looks Like

I find it fascinating and surprising that the wellness industry has picked up on the Indigenous practice of “saging.” In the last five years or so, trendy retailers like Goop and Anthropologie started ...
The Conversation

How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism

John McMullan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Reuters

Australia to replace monarch on banknote with design honouring Indigenous culture

SYDNEY, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Australia will replace the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on its A$5 banknote with a new design to reflect and honour the history of its Indigenous culture, the country's ...