These are the Aboriginal films, series, and documentaries we'd show any class, and the one podcast every Australian should hear. Most were made by Aboriginal filmmakers or with the communities they show, so the story comes from the inside: Yolŋu ancestors on the Arafura Swamp, a young Martu woman's first sight of patrol officers in 1964, a Wangkajunga family making rain at Kurtal.
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"Rainbow Serpent" is an English name for many ancestral serpent beings. Ngalyod, Wanampi, Garimala and Wungurr, and the artists who paint them.
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In October 1984, a family of nine Pintupi people walked out of the desert west of Lake Mackay (Wilkinkarra) and into the community of Kiwirrkurra in Western Australia. They had lived their whole lives on their own country, with no contact with the outside world.
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Largest-Ever Indigenous Australian Art Exhibition Touring North America
The exhibition, titled The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, premiered in Washington, D.C. in October 2025 and is now at the Portland Art Museum until 3 January 2027. It travels on to the Peabody Essex Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, with the North American tour running to 2028, offering audiences an unprecedented opportunity to experience the depth and diversity of Australia's First Nations art.
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An Aboriginal artist will often paint one subject for a lifetime. The subject is inherited, and moving past it is not the point. The repetition is.
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And what does the letterhead do anyway? Because the company that blew up a 47,000-year-old sacred site held this country's highest reconciliation ranking while it did it.
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Understanding the Frontier Wars is central to understanding Australian history, yet for generations this history was minimised or excluded from mainstream education. One of the most valuable resources available to educators, students, and the wider public is the podcast Frontier War Stories.
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British forces landed in Van Diemen's Land(Tasmania) in 1803. Within thirty years the Palawa population had fallen from thousands to fewer than three hundred. The Black War, the Black Line, Wybalenna, and what came after.
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NAIDOC Week 2026 runs from 5 to 12 July. This year's theme is "50 Years of Deadly," marking five decades of NAIDOC Week as a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, achievement, and resistance. In Aboriginal English, "deadly" means excellent, and the theme carries both pride and defiance.
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What Is National Reconciliation Week?
National Reconciliation Week is held each year from 27 May to 3 June. It is a time for everyone in Australia to learn about the country’s shared history and to consider how to contribute to reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians.
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