The Australian Wars

Comprehensive education resources to support schools to deliver key themes from the SBS Documentary Series

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Our Future Fire

A fireside yarn weaving culture, storytelling and live performances by young First Nations people from Culture is Life and the Singing Our Futures program at Port Fairy Folk Festival.

#HealOurHistory Campaign Launch

To amplify the The Australian Wars Education & Impact Project in partnership with Culture is Life, Blackfella Films and SBS, Culture is Life has launched the #HealOurHistory Campaign.

Two Way Learning & Professional Development for Teachers

Teachers who participated in Culture is Life's recent webinar expressed their need to deeper understand our shared history, including the Frontier Wars, and interest in our Two-Way Learning Model, now added to the 'Teaching First Nations Knowledge and Perspectives Guide'.

Honouring Our Old People: Reflections On Visiting Australia’s Largest Prison Island & The Frontier Wars

After watching the documentary Utopia years ago, and learning about the true history of Rottnest Island, or Wadjemup as it’s called in Noongar language, I thought this was a place that I would never visit.

WIPCE 2022

Culture Is Life is headed to the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, from 26 – 30 September 2022 in Adelaide, Australia. We’re looking forward to meeting with First Nations peoples from across the world and will be presenting two workshops.

The Australian Wars

The story of Australia’s longest and perhaps most defining war has been kept silent – until now. Over three parts, this ground-breaking documentary series gives voice to the story of The Australian Wars – the battles fought on home soil, as the colonial frontier pushed forward, and First Nations peoples resisted.

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Mar 15

Growth takes effort, just like tending to a garden. Remember to water the flowers you want to grow. 💦🌺

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Mar 15

"Bush is Best. Country is the great spirit leveler. It is healing." - Donny Imberlong

Find out more about the motivations, hopes and aspirations of the 2022 Fellows in this interview series.

#FirstNations #YoungPeople #FullashipProgram #Fullaship2022

Mar 14

Announcing BIDHI GALING (Big Rain), the story of the Great Flood of Gundagai. Written by @dranitaheiss with illustrations by @sammyzart and inspired by true events, this book means young ones around Australia can learn about Wiradyuri knowledge of country and heroes, and about one of Australia’s most tragic natural disasters.

Culture is Life is honoured to be developing the accompanying education resources with @shelley_ware. Released through @simonschusterau on June 7th, pre-orders are now being taken via the link in our bio ☝🏽

#FirstNations #Wiradyuri #Wiradjuri #ChildrensBook #Education

Mar 13

Huge weekend of music, dancing, culture and yarns in honour of @archieroachmusic at @portfairyfolkfestival on Gunditjmara country! We had so much fun presenting 'Our Future Fire' as part of the Archie Roach Foundation Stage, where we also got to see the 'Singing Our Futures' Showcase. Shout out to @candicelorrae for curating such a deadly stage featuring First Nations art, music and culture. Much love to everyone we connected with along the way and congratulations to all the artists, crew and people involved for putting on such an amazing event 👏🏽🖤

#FirstNations #SingingOurFutures #AboriginalAustralia

Mar 9

The Australian Wars has won Best Documentary / Factual Series at the Australian International Documentary Conference! 🏆🙌🏾

If you're an educator looking to use The Australian Wars in your classroom, head to the link in our bio to access our free curriculum-aligned education resources for years 10-12☝🏽

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The winner of the #AIDCAward for Best Documentary / Factual Series is The Australian Wars, produced by Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale and Jacob Hickey. Congratulations to Rachel, Darren, Jacob and the team on their win!

#AIDC2023 #DocumentarySeries #Factual #TheAustralianWars

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Mar 8

Today and every day, we honour our matriarchs who have carried the strength, wisdom, and traditions of our First Nations communities for generations. Their teachings and guidance have paved the way for us to walk proudly in our cultural identity and we are forever grateful for their love and leadership.

#FirstNations #InternationalWomensDay #IWD23

Artwork by Charlotte Allingham aka @coffinbirth

Mar 8

Culture is Life congratulates our Co-Chair, Justin Mohamed, on his appointment as Australia's inaugural Ambassador for First Nations People! We're all so incredibly proud of his leadership. ❤️💛🖤

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For the first time, Australia will have dedicated Indigenous representation in our international engagement.

Today Penny Wong - Senator for SA and I announced the appointment of Justin Mohamed as Australia's inaugural Ambassador for First Nations People.

He'll lead the Office of First Nations Engagement in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

So that they can work in genuine partnership with our people to progress Indigenous rights globally, and help grow First Nations trade and investment.

Justin has worked for decades in First Nations health, social justice, and reconciliation.

I just know he'll do great things on the world stage, and help elevate First Nations voices to the world stage.

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#FirstNations #Leadership #JustinMohamed #CultureIsLife

Mar 7

We recently reached 10K followers, so we wanted to take a quick moment to say thank you to all of you following our journey to prevent youth suicide and support young people to thrive! ❤️💛🖤

#FirstNations #YoungPeople #MentalHealth

Mar 6

Join us this weekend at @portfairyfolkfestival, for 'Our Future Fire' a fireside yarn weaving culture, storytelling and live performances by young First Nations People from Culture is Life and the Singing Our Futures program by @archieroachmusic 🔥

'Our Future Fire' is a part of the Archie Roach Foundation Stage and will be on at 5:30pm this Saturday 11 March.

#ArchieRoach #SingingOurFutures #Aboriginal #AboriginalAustralia #FirstNations #CultureIsLife

Mar 1

Big mob love to all the deadly queens that took the stage for Miss First Nation: Supreme Queen at Mardi Badung Butbut at @sydneyworldpride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️💛🖤

We love seeing our deadly Fullaship mob doing deadly things and an extra massive congrats to @ceruleanuwu who is now officially the SUPREME QUEEN! 👑

#FirstNations #Drag #SydneyWorldPride