March 2017

‘Didgeridoo is his voice’: how Djalu Gurruwiwi embodies the sound of a continent

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The Indigenous elder revered by some as ‘Australia’s Dalai Lama’ is the spiritual keeper of the didgeridoo. A new exhibition honours his legacy and the immense significance of the Yolngu instrument that is helping to heal a divided country

The old man with straggly hair, long wispy grey beard and wraparound sunglasses sits at the back of the grandstand overlooking the verdant expanse of Alberton Oval – the traditional base, if no longer the home ground, of the historic Port Adelaide football club.

What’s in a name? Quite a bit when we’re commemorating both murders and murderers | Paul Daley

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John Batman, Lachlan Macquarie, Angus McMillan – some of the colonial leaders we eulogise and commemorate despite being deeply unworthy

It’s well beyond time we rethought who, as a nation, we’ve eulogised in statuary, bricks, mortar and nomenclature.

Reuniting Indigenous 'sticks' with their stories: the museum on a mission to give back

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The South Australian Museum wants to take a global lead in connecting its enormous collection with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

John Carty stands on a platform inside a vast warehouse on Adelaide’s outskirts. On the floor below and behind him are rack after rack of shelves and drawers housing tens of thousands of Australian Indigenous artefacts.