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Animation in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian animation is internationally recognised, Leisure (1976), Harvie Krumpet (2003) and Happy Feet (2006) have all won Oscars. Leisure employs cell style animation, Harvie Krumpet is made using the method of stop-motion claymation and Happy Feet fe...

Australian female filmmakers - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...

Film in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The Australian film industry got off to a flying start, producing what was probably the world's first full length feature film in 1906. South Australia banned the screening of bushranger films in 1911, Victoria followed in 1912. Colour production came t...

Indigenous Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Traditional Indigenous architecture was domestic - across a range of well crafted and technologically designed shelters and residential camps. Courtesy of Queensland Museum and Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. Annual base camp structures, whether...

Indigenous film - Australia's Culture Portal

Indigenous film either portrays Indigenous people, issues and stories or is film made by Indigenous Australians. The portrayal of Indigenous issues and people in film provides a unique insight into Australia's relationship with its Indigenous peoples and...

NAIDOC Week - Australia's Culture Portal

NAIDOC originally stood for 'National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee' after a Day of Mourning was held on Australia Day, 1938. In 1991 NADOC became NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) to recognise Torres...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

Indigenous peoples of the World - Australia's Culture Portal

UNESCO states that Indigenous populations number some 350 million individuals in more than 70 countries in the world, and that this represents more than 5000 languages and cultures. Today, many Indigenous peoples live on the fringes of society and are de...

Reconciliation - Australia's Culture Portal

Reconciliation is about unity and respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians. It is about respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and valuing justice and equity for all Australians. National R...

Sorry Day and the Stolen Generation - Australia's Culture Portal

The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 - one year after the tabling of the report Bringing them Home, May 1997. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission into the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their fami...

Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal

While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drinking, and digging sticks. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with stone technology. T...

Western Australian Women Indigenous artists - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Mangkaja Arts. Women have different Dreaming stories and law to men, and many of the women artists experienced pre-contact traditional life. The first wave of Aboriginal women artists in Western Australia includes Queenie McKenzie, Madi...

Australian Indigenous cultural heritage - Australia's Culture Portal

It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...

Australian Oscar success - Australia's Culture Portal

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science was established in 1927 and the Academy Awards or Oscars ceremonies commenced in 1929. Image courtesy of Latent Image Productions Pty Ltd and National Film & Sound Archive. Over the past 60 years Australians...

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Sacred Ground - documentary   (more info)

A website related to the film 'Sacred Ground', an observational documentary released in 2007 by the South Australian Film Corporation, Australian Film Commission and Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Sacred Ground tells the true story of Aboriginal pe

Aboriginal Nations Australia Pty Ltd   (more info)

2D and 3D animation studio specialising in series production for children and general entertainment, eductional products, documentaries and TVCs.

Indigenous Collections   (more info)

The Indigenous Cultures collections comprise internationally significant collections of indigenous art, ethnographic artefacts, archaeological items, photographs, archival documents, and film and sound recordings.

Art Right Now   (more info)

This website contains Australian visual arts resources such as exhibition reviews, artist profiles and essays, links to indigenous art resources and websites, and film reviews. It is also the portal for access to the AVAD (Australian Visual Arts Databases

Barani - Indigenous History of Sydney City   (more info)

Barani contains the history, life stories and images of Indigenous men and women who have made great contributions to their people and their country. Barani is an interactive, searchable resource which links you to a thematic introduction to Sydney's Indi

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ABC Online Indigenous - Arts & Events - Film   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Rachel Perkins delivers a not to be missed film that is satirical without being overtly political, camp without being overly kitsch, briskly edited and sumptuously shot. A cliched plot in search of a good story, 'Australia' reinforces many colonial myths ...