November 2017

The artists saving traditional knowledge for the next generation

Artistic collaboration between John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda will safeguard the practical and cultural significance of Indigenous food plants

English-born landscape artist John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda, a Yolngu bark painter from north-east Arnhem Land, may seem an unlikely alliance.

People might look at Wolseley, his lineage traceable to the Saxons, and Mulkun, the daughter of a murdered warrior, her Yolngu ancestors on this continent for tens of thousands of years before time held meaning, as coming from different worlds.

Finding Mungo Man: the moment Australia's story suddenly changed

As the oldest known Indigenous remains are returned to country this week, the man who found them muses on the discovery

Late in his ninth decade and conscious the sands of his time may be too diminished to finish all he should, Jim Bowler speaks at night to the ancient Aboriginal person who has defined his life, Mungo Man.

Outrage will prevent a windfarm over the Bullecourt dead – but it's missing elsewhere | Paul Daley

Where is the anger at Indigenous remains in museums after modern infrastructure disturbed traditional burial sites?

It is easy to find distinct order in the chiseled landscape of commemoration when you visit the world war one battlefields of the European western front.

Winding your way down bucolic country laneways or taking highways across the verdant expanses for which millions died, you’ll see hundreds of cemeteries with their blonde statuary, precise lawns and tended shrubs. They bring military structure to remembering.