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After working on Call of Duty, Aboriginal game designers are creating video games that share 10,000 years of storytelling with global audiences. From space pirates to cheeky dingoes, these creators are making Indigenous culture accessible through gaming's universal language.
Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta explains how Aboriginal stories offer a path toward healing our relationship with nature. His book reveals how changing the narratives we follow could transform how we treat the Earth.
Thirty Aboriginal elders and community members honored an ancestor discovered during construction work on Rottnest Island, performing a traditional burial ceremony that brought together Indigenous peoples from across Western Australia. The discovery is sparking meaningful steps toward truth-telling about the island's history as an Aboriginal prison.
When Jasmine Hutchinson's parents saw a photo of a six-week-old Aboriginal baby in 1986, they didn't just adopt him—they spent the next 15 years opening their home to dozens of vulnerable Aboriginal children. Their quiet calling shows reconciliation happening one caring family at a time.
A Pune-based storyteller is launching a month-long series to reconnect Indians with Iran's rich cultural heritage and deep historical ties. Through epic poetry, chai, and conversations, Mariam Abuhaideri wants to revive awareness of forgotten bonds between two ancient civilizations.
A South Australian Aboriginal community is bringing the Ngaiawang language back to life after it nearly disappeared following colonization. Using 180-year-old word lists and community knowledge, they've compiled 800 words and are creating a picture book to teach future generations.
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, who shattered barriers as the first Aboriginal person to earn a PhD from Harvard University, passed away last Saturday leaving behind a legacy of educational transformation. Her life's work opened doors for thousands of Indigenous students across Australia.
Margaret Wein wept when she saw her great-great-grandfather's face for the first time in a crayon drawing created 80 years ago. A team of researchers just reunited 810 secret Aboriginal artworks with descendants across the Australian desert, rewriting art history in the process.
Australian Aboriginal communities have preserved stories describing when the sea swallowed the land, and researchers believe these oral traditions may accurately recall real coastlines from over 10,000 years ago. If verified, they would be humanity's oldest surviving true stories.
Over three days in Udaipur, India, 30 performers proved the human voice is still powerful enough to captivate audiences without screens or speakers. The festival welcomed 400 listeners into warm tents where ancient tales and modern stories flowed together.
Dozens of female Aboriginal rangers gathered in Central Australia's East MacDonnell ranges for a groundbreaking camp focused on protecting sacred women's sites and sharing ancestral knowledge. The initiative aims to expand opportunities for women in the historically male-dominated field of land management.
Nearly 1,900 young creators from across Africa applied to transform how the continent tells its own stories. Now 30 have been chosen to lead the way.
For 45 years, Aboriginal activist Gary Foley saved every poster, letter, and photograph from Australia's civil rights movement in his shed. Now housed at Victoria University, this one-of-a-kind collection lets Indigenous students preserve and share their own history.
Australia's ABC is hiring emerging content creators with disabilities to produce stories for International Day of People with Disability. Selected storytellers will be paid to work with ABC producers from August 2026 to May 2027.
When a government department wanted to destroy thousands of Aboriginal welfare records in the 1970s, one Western Australian archivist made a decision that would help generations reconnect with their families. Margaret Medcalf just celebrated her 100th birthday, and the records she saved are still used daily to reunite families.
Over 200 Aboriginal rangers from 29 groups across South Australia gathered for the state's first-ever Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger Conference. Young rangers are becoming role models in their communities while protecting native species and restoring ecosystems their elders remember.
After a mining company destroyed ancestral burial grounds, traditional owners fought for four years and won historic protection for their sacred land. The Darrajayin area is now Western Australia's first new Aboriginal heritage protected area in three decades.
Three Tasmanian landowners are handing their properties to the Aboriginal Land Council, showing a grassroots path forward when government land returns stall. One dumping ground is now becoming a training site for the next generation of Indigenous rangers.
The British Council is launching Film Lab Africa's second round in Nigeria, bringing TV writing workshops and production grants to emerging storytellers nationwide. After 600 applications for the first cohort, the program now includes a dedicated writers' lab and episodic storytelling focus.
Thomas Cowell, a Southern Arrernte stockman who died in 1959, is finally being returned to Country after his remains spent six decades in a South Australian museum. His reburial during National Reconciliation Week marks a powerful moment of healing for his family and community.
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