Free online resources for secondary schools: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies

The sources used on this site "provide information about the social and political background of the 1967 referendum, the Queensland state laws governing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs at the time, the organisations and individuals at the forefront of campaigns.

ABC's online Indigenous gateway is a collaboration between the Indigenous departments of ABC Radio, Television and Online and is dedicated to giving voice to Indigenous Australians.

Internet guide to Australian Aboriginal studies, with search engine, plus subject directory.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is the national research and collecting institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present.

Resources in this collection cover topics such as access to literacy and numeracy, rural schools, education for Aboriginal Australians, early childhood education, critical pedagogies, learning strategies, teacher resilience and more.

A reference database on Australian Aboriginal tribes, nations, languages and dialectal groups.(DB)

Births, Deaths and Marriages, Mission and reserve records, Military History, Newspapers for family history, Pictures and photographs.

The National Library's Manuscripts collection contains original written records relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their languages. These records provide a glimpse of the approximately 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages of Australia.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is the national research and collecting institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present.

BlackWords researches and records a diverse range information about the lives and works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers and the literary cultures and traditions that formed and influenced them

The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) is Australia’s foremost social science research body focusing on Indigenous economic and social policy from a national perspective.

This map is just one representation of other map sources that are available for describing Aboriginal Australia. This map indicates only the general location of larger groupings of people which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group.

Indigenous Voices of Queensland is an online resource of rare, archival recordings of Indigenous languages of Queensland. The languages were recorded by Elwyn Flint, an academic of the English department at UQ in the 1960s. The interactive map allows students to listen to the traditional languages spoken in different parts of Queensland.

The website is a formal recognition of traditional weather and climate knowledge that has been developed and passed down through countless generations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Provides access to scanned copies of the Koori Mail, a national fortnightly newspaper focusing on the Indigenous people of Australia. (DB)

We welcome you to The Little Red Yellow Black Website, an online gateway to The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An introduction to Indigenous Australia. This is a site for anyone wanting an introduction to the rich history and contemporary culture of Indigenous Australia.

The Tribunal administers the future act processes that attract the right to negotiate under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth). Their role includes mediating between parties, conducting inquiries and making arbitral decisions. Via the lawyers portal searches for applications and determinations, Indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs) can be carried out. The site also has searchable spatial data and maps.

This guide aims to provide insights and materials to assist teachers in addressing what can be suggested as the little known history around first contact; the conflicts that occurred across Australia between those living in Australia and those coming to Australia from the 1770’s; and how the critical issues such as dispossession, marginalization and injustices continue to impact on the lives of Aboriginals today

The people's movement to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and to ensure that it is free from racial discrimination.

As part of our reconciliation journey, there are truths to tell, stories to celebrate, and relationships to grow.

Website gives an insight into the history, lives and cultures of Australia's First People.

Locate resources of interest to Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islanders and general users interested in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander related matters, from the State Library of Queensland.

This guide is sorted into the five major island clusters in the Torres Straits Region. It highlights collection items already on the National Library of Australia's catalogue.

The Work Program helps schools plan and take action to improve educational outcomes for Australian indigenous students.

General resources including Gale Virtual Reference Library and Humanities and Social Sciences Collection and specialist resources in education, health and consumer affairs.

The world's most ancient living culture, Australia's Indigenous people, have a continuous history spanning more than 50 000 years.

Aboriginal dance and song performance, a segment of "Kangaroo From Kakadu”.

The series chronicles the history of contemporary Australia, from the perspective of its first people, or Aborigines.

A changing selection of films, documentaries and newsclips. Films with indigenous themes and issues include: Milpirri, The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Jedda, Clouded history, The fringe dwellers, Yolngu boy, Manganinnie, When the natives got restless, Toomelah, North of Capricorn. You can also search for "indigenous" and "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander" programs.

National Reconciliation Week, which kicks off on the anniversary of a day that aimed to give Indigenous Australians greater equality, strives to grow the relationship between them and other Australians.

Follows the lives of six exceptional young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who share their stories about their families and communities.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, MP - Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples. Duration - 4 minutes, 3 seconds
Recorded Wednesday, February 13, 2008.

The text of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's speech to Parliament. February 13, 2008.

Paul Keating's Redfern speech was the first time a Prime Minister acknowledged the impact of Europea settlement on Indigenous Australians. The address reflected a changing official interpretation of Australian history which better accommodated the Aboriginal experience.

Delivered in Redfern Park by Prime Minister Paul Keating, 10 December 1992.