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SUPPORTING STOLEN GENERATIONS SURVIVORS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES

The Healing Foundation is a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation that provides a platform to amplify the voices and lived experience of Stolen Generations survivors and their families.

We work with communities to create a place of safety, providing an environment for Stolen Generations survivors and their families to speak for themselves, tell their own stories, and be in charge of their own healing.

We promote trauma-aware, healing-informed practice to help government, policymakers, and workforces understand their role in intergenerational healing.

By addressing unresolved trauma in First Nations communities - trauma that was caused by colonisation and actions like the forced removal of children - we are walking alongside communities on the path to healing.

We are governed by a First Nations Board and Executive and guided in our work by our Stolen Generations and Youth Reference Groups.

Our work honours our First Nations ancestors and our future generations.

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The Healing Foundation | Supporting the healing of Stolen Generations survivors, families and communities

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We are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation supporting the healing of Stolen Generations survivors, families and communities.

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The Western Australian Curriculum has been written to equip young Australians with the skills, knowledge and understanding that will enable them to engage effectively with and prosper in a globalised world. Students will gain personal and social benefits, be better equipped to make sense of the world in which they live and make an important contribution to building the social, intellectual and creative capital of our nation.

Accordingly, the Western Australian Curriculum must be both relevant to the lives of students and address the contemporary issues they face. With these considerations and the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration, the curriculum gives special attention to these three priorities:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

Sustainability.

Teachers may find opportunities to incorporate the cross-curriculum priorities into their teaching and learning programs. The cross-curriculum priorities are not assessed unless they are identified within the core content of the Western Australian Curriculum.

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The Western Australian Curriculum has been written to equip young Australians with the skills, knowledge and understanding that will enable them to engage effectively with and prosper in a globalised world. Students will gain personal and social benefits, be better equipped to make sense of the world in which they live and make an important contribution to building the social, intellectual and creative capital of our nation.

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Narragunnawali supports all schools and early learning services in Australia to develop environments that foster a high level of knowledge and pride in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and contributions. Narragunnawali (pr

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Cool.org (Cool Australia) supports primary and secondary teachers with high-quality, downloadable education resources like lesson plans, worksheets, activities and professional learning courses.

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When Dujuan cannot run nor fight alone, he faces the history that runs straight into him and realises that not only has he inherited the trauma and dispossession of his land, but also the resilience and resistance of many generations of his people.

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"I came here to speak to you because the Australian government is not listening"

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In My Blood It Runs is an observational feature documentary following 10-yr-old Arrernte Aboriginal boy Dujuan as he grows up Alice Springs, Australia.

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The Western Australian Museum is the State's premier cultural organisation, housing WA's scientific and cultural collection.

For over 120 years the Museum has been making the State's natural and social heritage accessible and engaging through research, exhibitions and public programs.

Today, the Museum has seven public locations across our State - and a Collections and Research Centre that houses more than eight million objects.

The WA Museum Boola Bardip opened in the Perth Cultural Centre on Saturday 21 November 2020 with nine days of celebration.

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The Western Australian Museum is the State's premier cultural organisation, housing WA's scientific and cultural collection. For over 120 years the Museum has been making the State's natural and social heritage accessible and engaging through research, exhibitions and public programs. Today, the Museum has seven public locations across our State - and a Collections and Research Centre that houses more than eight million objects.

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The State Library's Storylines program is an online portal for Aboriginal communities and families around the State digitally returning thousands of photographs of Aboriginal people.

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The State Library's Storylines program is an online portal for Aboriginal communities and families around the State digitally returning thousands of photographs of Aboriginal people.

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AIATSIS acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognises their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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We are Australia's only national institution focused exclusively on the diverse history, cultures and heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia.

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Wanju wanju, Kaartdijin Noongar. Welcome to the Noongar Knowledge EDUCATION page

This Education resource assists teachers by providing links between Kaartdijin Noongar website and the Australian Curriculum. There are detailed links for History, English and Geography from Pre-Primary to Year 10. Detailed links for Science and Mathematics are under development.

It was produced by South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council in collaboration with the Association of Independent Schools of WA (Inc).

Organising ideas: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture

The Australian Curriculum must be both relevant to the lives of students and address the contemporary issues they face.With these considerations and the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians in mind, the curriculum gives special attention to these three priorities:

For each cross-curriculum priority, a set of organising ideas reflects the essential knowledge, understandings and skills for the priority. The organising ideas are embedded in the content descriptions and elaborations of each learning area as appropriate.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies have many Language Groups.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' ways of life are uniquely expressed through ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have lived in Australia for tens of thousands of years and experiences can be viewed through historical, social and political lenses.

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Australia has two distinct Indigenous groups, Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities maintain a special connection to and responsibility for Country/Place throughout all of Australia.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have unique belief systems and are spiritually connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways.

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The broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies encompass a diversity of nations across Australia.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have sophisticated family and kinship structures.

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Australia acknowledges the significant contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people locally and globally.

Australian Curriculum: HISTORY

The Australian Curriculum: History values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. It celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories as part of the shared history belonging to all Australians. Students will examine historical perspectives from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewpoint. They will learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples prior to colonisation by the British, the ensuing contact and its impacts. They will examine key policies and political movements over the last two centuries. Students will develop an awareness of the significant roles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people in Australian society.

Australian Curriculum: ENGLISH

The Australian Curriculum: English values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. It articulates relevant aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, literatures and literacies. All students will develop an awareness and appreciation of, and respect for the literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples including storytelling traditions (oral narrative) as well as contemporary literature. Students will be taught to develop respectful critical understandings of the social, historical and cultural contexts associated with different uses of language and textual features. Students will be taught that there are many languages and dialects spoken in Australia including Aboriginal English and Yumplatok (Torres Strait Islander Creole) and that these languages may have different writing systems and oral traditions. These languages can be used to enhance enquiry and understanding of English literacy.

Australian Curriculum: GEOGRAPHY

The Australian Curriculum: Geography values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. Geography emphasises the relationships people have with place and their interconnection with the environments in which they live. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures priority provides the opportunity for students to develop a deeper understanding of these concepts by investigating the thousands of years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander connection to land, water and sky and the knowledge and practices that developed as a result of these experiences. Students will examine the effects of European colonisation on people and environments. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures priority also contributes to an understanding of spatial inequalities in human welfare, sustainable development and human rights.

Geography also enables students to learn that there are different ways of thinking about and interacting with the environment. It integrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' use of the land, governed by a holistic, spiritually-based connection to Country and Place, with the continuing influence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples on Australian places, and in environmental management and regional economies.

In including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and practices, and engaging with communities and local and regional environments, students develop a wide range of critical and creative thinking skills. Students explore ways of experiencing landscapes by conducting fieldwork with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and reading, listening to, or performing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' explanations of the origins of particular landforms.

Australian Curriculum: SCIENCE - under development

The Australian Curriculum: Science values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. It acknowledges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have long-standing scientific knowledge traditions. Students will have opportunities to learn that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have developed knowledge about the world through observation, using all the senses; through prediction and hypothesis; through testing (trial and error); and through making generalisations within specific contexts. These scientific methods have been practised and transmitted from one generation to the next. Students will develop an understanding that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have particular ways of knowing the world and continue to be innovative in providing significant contributions to development in science. They will investigate examples of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander science and the ways traditional knowledge and western scientific knowledge can be complementary. .

Australian Curriculum: MATHEMATICS - under development

The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. It provides opportunities for students to appreciate that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies have sophisticated applications of mathematical concepts. Students will explore connections between representations of number and pattern and how they relate to aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. They will investigate time, place, relationships and measurement concepts in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts. Students will deepen their understanding of the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples through the application and evaluation of statistical data.

Source: ACARA Australian Curriculum v5.0 2013

Professional Learning

For information about Professional learning workshops and assistance using the Kaartdijin Noongar website for classroom use, please contact:

Association of Independent Schools of WA (Inc)
Email: reception@ais.wa.edu.au
AISWA Curriculum Phone: (08) 9441 1632

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Recognition, listening and better results. Vote Yes on October 14.

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WINNER Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year, Oceania Region

Magabala Books is Australia's leading Indigenous publishing house. Based in Broome, Western Australia, we publish Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, artists and illustrators from all over Australia. Aboriginal owned and led, we are guided by strong cultural principles and a passion for quality storytelling.

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In Nyungar Cosmology, the Waarkal is the Creator, the keeper of the fresh water sources. He gave us life and our trilogy of belief in the boodjar - the land - as our mother and nurturer of the Nyungar moort - family and relations - and our katitjin - knowledge so that we could weave that intricate tapestry known as the "web of life".

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In Nyungar Cosmology, the Waarkal is the Creator, the keeper of the fresh water sources. He gave us life and our trilogy of belief in the boodjar - the land - as our mother and nurturer of the Nyungar moort - family and relations - and our katitjin - knowledge so that we could weave that intricate tapestry known as the "web of life".

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Scootle provides Australian teachers with access to quality-assured digital learning resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

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Children must learn to read, so they can read to learn. We’re working to make literacy possible for every child, anywhere.

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The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration

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The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration.

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Paul Girrawah House has multiple First Nation ancestries from the South-East Canberra region, including the Ngambri-Ngurmal (Walgalu), Pajong (Gundungurra), Wallabollooa (Ngunnawal) and Erambie/Brungle (Wiradyuri) family groups.

Paul acknowledges his diverse First Nation history, he particularly identifies as a descendant of Onyong aka Jindoomang from Weereewaa (Lake George) and Henry 'Black Harry' Williams from Namadgi who were both multilingual, essentially Walgalu-Ngunnawal-Wiradjuri speaking warriors and Ngunnawal-Wallaballooa man William Lane aka 'Billy the Bull' - Murrjinille.

Paul was born at the old Canberra hospital in the centre of his ancestral country and strongly acknowledges his First Nation matriarch ancestors, in particular his mother Dr Aunty Matilda House-Williams and grandmother, Ms Pearl Simpson-Wedge.

Paul completed a Bachelor of Community Management from Macquarie University, and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage and Management from CSU.

Paul provided the Welcome to Country for the 47th Opening of Federal Parliament in 2022. Paul is Board Director, Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council, Member Indigenous Reference Group, National Museum of Australia and Australian Government Voice Referendum Engagement Group.

Paul works on country with the ANU, First Nations Portfolio as a Senior Community Engagement Officer

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Reconciliation Australia's vision is for a just, equitable and reconciled Australia.

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We work to see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children grow up healthy, happy and safe, connected to culture and Community.

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Every child deserves a solid foundation in life. Our dedication to Early Childhood Development plays an important role in ensuring that all of our children receive the best possible start for lifelong learning and success.

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Safeguarding the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is of the utmost importance. We work to establish secure environments for children and families, creating communities where they can thrive.

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We are committed to bridging educational and opportunity gaps for our children. By addressing systemic inequalities, all future generations will have access to culturally appropriate education and will not be over-represented in the child welfare system.

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Reading Opens Doors to future opportunities and choices

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is a national charity working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote Communities across Australia. We are Community-led, responding to requests from remote Communities for culturally relevant books, including early learning board books, resources, and programs to support Communities to create and publish their stories in languages of their choice.

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Noongar Boodjar Language Cultural Aboriginal Corporation

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Noongar Boodjar Language Cultural Aboriginal Corporation (NBLCAC) was established in 2014. A board of directors representing most of the Noongar clans manages NBLCAC's operations.

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'What was before Lord Vestey born and I born? It was blackfella country.' Vincent Lingiari (Wattie Creek 1966)

Australia's First Peoples have been living on the Australian continent for millenia.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia is made up of many different and distinct groups, each with their own culture, customs, language and laws. They are the world's oldest surviving culture; cultures that continue to be expressed in dynamic and contemporary ways.

The AIATSIS map serves as a visual reminder of the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. It was created in 1996 as part of the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia project and attempts to show language, social or nation groups based on published sources available up to 1994.

The map shows only the general locations of larger groups of people which may include smaller groups. There are also variations in the way that some language or group names are spelt. You can view some of these alternate spellings on the list of alternate spellings for names on the AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia below.

Note that the borders between groups are purposefully represented as slightly blurred and are not meant to be exact. Some of the information shown on the map is contested and may not be agreed to by some traditional custodians - the map isn't suitable for native title or other land claims.

The map isn't the only source of information; if you would like more information about Australian Indigenous languages please see our Austlang database. The National Native Title Tribunal also produces maps that show native title claims determinations.

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The AIATSIS map serves as a visual reminder of the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia.

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CEWA supports school leadership to develop Aboriginal education school improvement, resulting in stronger cultural competencies and increased Aboriginal student enrolments.

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Title

Crabbing at High Tide

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Carl Stahlmann

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Magabala Books, 2001

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5-8yrs, Lower Primary

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