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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
The Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, a national publication with a broad readership, is an important vehicle for the communication of Indigenous health information. Written mainly by Indigenous health workers for Indigenous health workers, the Journal provides an opportunity for the sharing of information about health issues and programs from a community perspective. It also provides a cross-cultural resource for non-Indigenous readers who work with and provide services to Indigenous communities. Each issue covers a range of topics including health promotion, primary health care, community profiles, best practice models and workforce issues.
View website: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal

Online information



Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre - Alice Springs
This website provides information on Central Australian Aboriginal culture. The 'Art Gallery' section features Aboriginal art from Central Australian Aboriginal communities which is available for purchase. The 'Cultural/ tourism' section advertises a tour operation which is a fully owned and operated Aboriginal enterprise. The Didgeridoo section features online lessons and describes how didgeridoos are made and used in traditional cultures.
View website: Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre

Aboriginal plant use in south-eastern Australia
The Australian National Botanic Gardens website includes detailed notes and a bibliography on plants used by Aboriginal peoples of south-eastern Australia. The plants can be seen at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The website is based on a booklet produced by the Gardens' Education Service.
View website: Australian National Botanic Gardens



Adjahdura Land
This website is about Adjahdura Land (Yorke Peninsula) which is located 1 hour north of Adelaide, South Australia. The Aboriginal Community of Adjahdura Land offer cultural tours Aboriginal art sales.
View website: Adjahdura Land

AusAnthrop
AusAnthrop is an anthropological resource for research into Aboriginal Australia with special emphasis on the Aboriginal people of the Western Desert . There is a tribal database, a kinship tutorial and a resource section with conference announcements, book reviews, and a variety of other resources. It also offers a discussion facility.
View website: AusAnthrop

Australia Council for the Arts
The Australian Council for the Arts has released a fully revised second edition of its protocol guides to help Australians better understand the use of Indigenous cultural material. Doing the right thing: protocols for working with Indigenous arts cover Indigenous Australian media arts, music arts, performing arts, visual arts and writing. The guides are also created to help Indigenous artists know how to best protect their work and their culture.
View website: Australian Council for the Arts
View Indigenous section of the website

Australian Museum online
The website includes a section that explores Indigenous Australia through storytelling, cultures and histories. It includes stories of the Dreaming, teachers' resources and content for students.
View website: Australian Museum Online

Australian Government Cultural and Recreation Portal
This portal provides direct access to information on Aboriginal heritage and culture and a variety of relevant links.
View website: Australian Government Cultural and Recreation Portal

Australian Museum Aboriginal Heritage Unit
The Aboriginal Heritage Unit's main role is to act as the intermediary between the Australian Museum and Indigenous communities on issues of Indigenous cultural heritage management. This involvement ranges from the development of Museum policy and procedures dealing with Australian Indigenous cultural issues, and overseeing the development of Australian Indigenous public programs at the Museum.
View website: Australian Museum Aboriginal Heritage Unit

Baby Name Network
A website featuring Aboriginal baby names and their meanings.
View website: Baby Name Network

Black Words - an initiative of AusLit: The Resource for Australian Literature
Black Words is an information-rich website, a searchable database and a forum for communication. It supersedes AusLit's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers subset which was created from 2001-2006 through the commitment of all AusLit contributors to encompass this important part of Australia's literary culture.
View website: Black Words

Dust Echoes
Dust Echoes features a series of twelve animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land.
View website: Dust Echoes

Ethnica International
Ethnica International has a large range of black/brown coloured dolls available for sale. People from diverse cultures in Western Australia have combined under the leadership of renowned doll maker Lily Bhavna Kauler to design and produce dolls in various mediums. The dolls have names  and some of them have accessories such as boomerangs, spears, Coolamon dishes, etc. which have been thoroughly researched and designed by Aboriginal elders of Western Australia.
View website: Ethnica International

Garma Festival
The Garma Festival is an annual celebration and is regarded as one of Australia’s most significant Indigenous festivals. It attracts around 20 clan groups from north east Arnhem Land, as well as representatives from clan groups and neighbouring Indigenous peoples throughout Arnhem Land, the Northern Territory and Australia. The Yolngu culture is celebrated and the festival encourages the practice, preservation and maintenance of traditional dance (bunggul), song (manikay), art and ceremony on Yolngu lands.
View website: Garma Festival

Indigenous Australia
Content on this website has been completely written by Indigenous people. It contains details of Aboriginal languages, photographs, and social organisation.
View website: Indigenous Australia

Jajirdi Cross-Cultural Consultants
Jajirdi provide: cross cultural training; Warlpiri language services - teaching, translating and interpreting; educational research; community liaison and advice on cross cultural communication and management.
View website: Jajirdi Cross-Cultural Consultants

Keeaira Press
Keeaira Press is a small publishing house with a primary interest in recording aspects of Aboriginal history and culture. Many of the publications have a strong photographic content.
View website: Keeaira Press

Kimberley Interpreting Service
This service provides interpreters for the Aboriginal languages, Jaru, Kriol, Kija, Walmajarri and Kukatja. All interpreters have received accreditation from the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) and are trained to work in specialised environments such as health, law, social work, court trials, land claims, government, community affairs, business & legal settings and tourism & hospitality.
View website: Kimberley Interpreting Service

Kokotinna
The Kokotinna website has been developed by the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University of South Australia. This web-based resource is committed to providing a culturally sensitive and safe environment in which staff and students may gain an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health issues. It aims to increase awareness among non-Indigenous people of the need to ensure a culturally safe atmosphere when working in cross-cultural situations and provides an overview of Indigenous health services.
View website: Kokotinna (currently under reconstruction)

Message Stick
Message Stick is a resource for accessing information about the ABC's Indigenous production across radio, television and the Web. It is also an information source for business, media and education on Indigenous issues such as protocol, intellectual copyright and culture. Other services include regularly updated discussion forums, an Indigenous arts review and a page dedicated to Indigenous events around Australia.
View website: Message Stick



NAISDA Dance College
The National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) integrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies into a dance arts course which maintains cultural heritage and traditions. The website includes information on courses, and also on history and NAISDA's philosophy.
View website: NAISDA Dance College

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Website (NATSIEW)
This website provides links to a collection of 2000 internet resources related to the culture, history and education of Australia's first peoples. It also details a developing chronology of Aboriginal and Islander history. Areas covered include: news and events; features; viewpoints; Aboriginal and Islander history; a resource directory; education and Internet guides.
View website: NATSIEW

Nidja Beeliar Boodjar Noonookurt Nyininy
This website provides a Nyungar interpretive history of the use of boodjar (country) in the vicinity of Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
View website: Nidja Beeliar Boodjar Noonookurt Nyininy

Rainforest Aboriginal Heritage
This website provides information on the Rainforest Aboriginal people who are the original owners of the Wet Tropics rainforests in north Queensland. Details on the website include: plants and animals of the rainforest; Aboriginal heritage; resources for students and teachers; managing a world heritage area; working with the community.
View website: Rainforest Aboriginal Heritage

Sharing the True Stories. Improving Communication Between Health Staff and Aboriginal Patients
This website provides reports and multimedia resources on the extensive research that was carried out on communication between health staff and patients in the Northern Territory, particularly in the area of doctor-patient communication. The project, Sharing the true stories, was a response to the need to develop a more informed understanding of intercultural communication in Aboriginal health care and to identify strategies to improve communication.
View website: Sharing the True Stories - currently under development


Spirit of Yarramunua
This website offers unique Aboriginal art gift ideas using traditional methods. Designs include those by Stan Yarramunua from the Yorta Yorta tribe.
View website: Spirit of Yarramunua


Strategies for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Mavis Golds is the Aboriginal health coordinator for the Northern Rivers Area Health Service, NSW. She has compiled a list of culturally appropriate guidelines for working with Indigenous people in health related areas. This list is available for viewing on the Medicine Australia website.
View website: Medicine Australia

Tandanya
Tandanya is the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc, established as a place of learning for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Tandanya is the Kaurna (pronounced Garn-na) Aboriginal name for the Adelaide city area. Tandanya aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal culture, histories and contemporary issues through the arts.
View website: Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute

The Black Book
The Black Book website is hosted and maintained by the Australian Film Commission. It has two main sections: the Black Book Directory and the Black Book Library. The Directory includes more than 2,700 listings of Indigenous organisations and individuals involved in the arts, media and cultural industries. The Library is includes new artistic works by Indigenous people. One section of the site provides information about gaining employment and professional development in the media and arts industries.
View website: The Black Book

The Brown Pages
The Brown Pages is a directory of Maori and Pacific Island Indigenous arts and media contacts in New Zealand, the Pacific Region and globally.
View website: The Brown Pages

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park
Tjapukai was Australia’s first Aboriginal dance theatre and is based near Cairns in Queensland. Tjapukai’s presentation style blends traditional and modern theatre techniques. Traditional dances and the telling of Dreamtime legends merge with ancient cultural dress, celebration dances, corroborees and survival skills.
View website: Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park

Vibe
Vibe is an Aboriginal media, communications and events management agency situated in Darlinghurst, Sydney. It specialises in the implementation, production and broadcasting of culturally sensitive communication products and services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities .
View website: Vibe

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts is a wholly Aboriginal owned art centre specializing in contemporary collectible Indigenous art of the east Kimberley region. The art centre operates as an artists' studio and gallery selling ochre paintings, limited edition prints, engraved boabs, traditional artifacts and didgeridoos. Waringarri Aboriginal Arts supports almost 50 artists, proudly employs Indigenous staff and supports ethical trade practices, with 100% of income from sales returned back to the community.
View website

Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Operators Committee (WAITOC)
WAITOC represents over 50 Aboriginal tourism operators ranging from traditional dance and dreamtime stories to contemporary history, bush tours and art, and aims to raise the profile of Indigenous tourism on a state, national and international level.
View website: WAITOC

Yaba Bimbie Cultural Dance Troupe
The Yaba Bimbie Cultural Dance Troupe performances include didgeridoo music and storytelling on Aboriginal culture in the North Queensland area, in particular the Yarrabah coastal community. The Troupe regularly perform in the Cairns regional area at special events, festivals, conferences, schools and other institutions.
View website: Yaba Bimbie Cultural Dance Troupe - currently unavailable

Yugambeh Museum Language and Heritage Centre
 The Yugambeh Museum Language and Heritage Centre promotes the cultural heritage of the Yugambeh region and caters for educational groups and members of the public with a resource library, display of local artifacts, a photographic exhibitions, publications relating to the region and Information on significant local sites.
View website: Yugambeh Museum Language and Heritage Centre

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Last updated: 3 October 2008