First Nations Telegraph

Wandering Wurms and their work to preserve Indigenous cultures

[Craig Allen, ABC]

As academics attached to the Australian National University (ANU) and the Institute of Anatomy, Stephen and Helen Wurm were engaged in a race to preserve Indigenous cultures that they saw being whitewashed by government policies of assimilation.

 

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Elders tell stories from the Gulf in short film commissioned by Carpentaria Shire Council

[Julia Andre, ABC]

Racism, bathing in well water, horses and goats roaming dirt roads — these are the memories 80-year-old Tagalaka woman Gladys Callope has of arriving in Normanton during the 1950s.

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