Please note the following resources are predominantly Victorian and need to be adapted to your state.
The Long Walk
www.thelongwalk.com.au
Dreamtime at the G
www.afl.com.au/dreamtimeattheg/tabid/14346/default.aspx
Koorie Heritage Trust
www.koorieheritagetrust.com
The Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership
www.indigenousfellowship.net.au
Victorian Aboriginal Education Association:
www.vaeai.org.au
NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Inc.
www.aecg.nsw.edu.au/
Northern Territory Indigenous Education Council
www.education.nt.gov.au/parents-community/students-learning/indigenous-education/ntiec
South Australian Aboriginal Education and Training Consultative Body
http://www.saaetcb.org.au
Western Australian Aboriginal Education and Training Council (AETC)
www.aetcwa.org.au/
QLD GOV -QLD Studies Authority -Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Committee
www.qsa.qld.edu.au/577.html
Tasmanian Government
www.education.tas.gov.au/documentcentre/Documents/Aboriginal-Education-Services.pdf
National Museum of Australia (From Little Things Big Things Grow)
www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/home
Australian Centre for The Moving Image
www.acmi.net.au
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
www.aiatsis.gov.au/
VIBE Australia
vibe.com.au
Indigenous Language Map
www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/default.htm
State Library of Victoria
www.slv.vic.gov.au
UNICEF (Free registration for resources) (Lower primary to middle secondary)
www.unicef.org.au/Educational-Resources/Parents-Teachers-Educators/Teachers-and-Educators.aspx
World Vision school resources (Indigenous)
www.worldvision.com.au/resources/SchoolResources/Default.aspx
National Gallery Of Victoria Films/resources
www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvschools/TraditionAndTransformation/identity
Australia’s Stolen Generations
www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/a-guide-to-australias-stolen-generations
Australian Human Rights Commission-Bringing Them Home Report
www.humanrights.gov.au/education/bringing_them_home/index.html
Reconciliation Australia
www.reconciliation.org.au/
Screen Australia Digital learning
www.australianbiography.gov.au
www.generator.acmi.net.au/sites/default/files/Generator_SnapshotsofAusHistory_24.pdf
Ergo
www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/indigenous_rights.html
Or try the documentary Why me? – Stories from the Stolen Generations by Rick Cavaggion. Read more:
www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/why-me-stories-from-the-stolen-generations
Keeler, C & Couzens, V, 2010 “Meerreeng-An The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told Through Art” Koorie Heritage Trust p.192-195
Aboriginal Peoples Acknowledgement
wcf.vu.edu.au/governancepolicy/PDF/POU050310000.PDF
www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/indigenous/about/reconciliation/protocols-for-recognising-traditional-owners
www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/
EMPOWERMENT
Oxfam Australia (Close the Gap)
www.oxfam.org.au/explore/indigenous-australia/close-the-gap/
‘Dare to Lead’; worksheets, resources and curriculum
http://www.daretolead.edu.au/DTL08_ProDev_Main
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/sport/traditional-aboriginal-games-activities
Cleanup Australia online:
www.cleanup.com.au
Millennium kids: Leadership
www.millenniumkids.com.au
Three levels of government factsheet:
www.peo.gov.au/students/index.html
Foundation For Young Australians
www.fya.org.au/
www.fya.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/seg_final_small1.pdf
Australian Youth Climate Coalition
http://aycc.org.au/
DEET (Human Rights Resource)
www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/teachlearn/student/lem/Human_rights_final.pdf
Ricci Marks Young Aboriginal Achiever Award
www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/indigenous/leadership/ricci-marks-award
MEDIA, TELEVISION AND FILM
ABC News On-line – Indigenous News
www.abc.net.au/indigenous/news/all_indigenous/
ABC Message Stick: Rabbit Proof Fence
www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/rabbitproof.html
ABC Message Stick
www.abc.net.au/indigenous/programs/message_stick/
SBS The First Australians
www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/
SBS Living Black
www.sbs.com.au/shows/livingblack
SBS NITV
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/
National Indigenous Radio Service
www.nirs.org.au/
Koori Mail
www.koorimail.com/
National Indigenous TeleVision (Children’s Programs and resources)
nitv.org.au/
National Indigenous Times (Issues, lessons, Readers and Teachers Guide)
www.nit.com.au/
AIME: (Mentoring Program)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv2MVg1Oibk
Teacher’s resources Oral history
museumvictoria.com.au/pages/2320/treasures.pdf
Resource list of Indigenous Movies and documentaries
www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/
“Lousy Little Sixpence” 1983 G Sixpence Productions Producer Alec Morgan, Gerry Bostock Director Alec Morgan
“Rabbit-Proof Fence” 2002 Director Phillip Noyce
INDIGENOUS MARCHES
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ndC07C2qw
www.indigenousrights.net.au/area.asp?aID=2
www.australiaday.com.au/studentresources/history-1939-1988.aspx
www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/cummeragunja/default.htm
www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/wave-hill-walkoff.html
www.indigenousrights.net.au/person.asp?pID=983
indigenousrights.net.au/section.asp?sID=33
www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/1946-Pilbara-strike.html
www.kooriweb.org/foley/timeline/histimeline.html
www.asiaeducation.edu.au/curriculum_resources/history_cr/asiascopeseqhistorycr/secondary_units_of_work_sose/unit_10_the_power/powerone_links.html
VISUAL
Bunjilaka Gallery at Melbourne Museum (Education Programs)
museumvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka/education/
My Place TV series and teachers resources
www.myplace.edu.au/teaching_activities/teaching_activities_landing.html
Keeler, C and Couzens, V 2010 “Meerreeng – An The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told Through Art” Koorie Heritage Trust
WILLIAM BARAK
“William Barak Bridge Builder of the Kulin”, Aboriginal Affairs 2006
www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william-barak/ http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030087b.htm
www.iearn.org.au/fp/art/heroes/barrak.htm
WILLIAM COOPER
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooper-william-5773
www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/stories/2010/2931527.htm
www.indigenousrights.net.au/person.asp?pID=962
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/israel-honours-aboriginal-elder-for-defying-nazis/story-e6frg6nf-1225899241138
www.smh.com.au/world/israelis-honour-aboriginal-activist-who-led-protest-against-holocaust-20101212-18u2o.html
www.kooriweb.org/foley/essays/essay_8html
explore.moadoph.gov.au/people/132-cooper-william-/list#description
www.jwire.com.au/news/aboriginal-honored-in-israel/2460
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/03/2888848.htm
VINCENT LINGIARI
www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/wave-hill/information.html
www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs224.aspx
www.hiddenheroesofaustralianhistory.wetpaint.com/page/vincent+lingiari+Web+Quest
artsandmuseums.nt.gov.au/northern-territory-library/the-territorys-story/territory_characters#.UWEtUJNOLJY
Picture Book “Vincent Lingiari and the Wave Hill Walkout” Melanie Guile with graphic pages illustrated by Chris Burns South
Yarra, Vic., Macmillan Library, 2010. (For primary students.)
CROSS CURRICULUM LINKS
ENGLISH
Oxfam ‘Make your mark’
www.oxfam.org.au/act/diy-campaigning/make-your-mark-in-the-media
State Library of Victoria
The changing face of Victoria exhibition
www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/changing-face-victoria
Museum Victoria: Teachers resources Oral history
museumvictoria.com.au/pages/2320/treasures.pdf
Asia Foundation: My Place TV Series
www.asiaeducation.edu.au/for_teachers/curriculum_resources/history_cr/history_cr_landing_page.html
Directory of Indigenous Education
www.aussieeducator.org.au/reference/general/Indigenous/Indigenousaustralia.html
The Koorie Mail: infokoori Archives
www.library.sl.nsw.gov.au:1084/search
POETRY
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
We are Going: poems (1964)
The Dawn is at Hand: poems (1966)
My People: a Kath Walker collection 1970)
Jack Davis
“Jagardoo: Poems from Aboriginal Australia.”
www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/aboriginal-poems/
Lisa Bellear
www.poemhunter.com/lisa-bellear/biography/
Indigenous Themed Plays
www.australianplays.org/category/29
Webquests
www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/e_challenges/index.html
Comics
www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/anti-racism-activities/comics/index.html
Ergo
www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/indigenous_rights
Australian Curriculum – Cross Curriculum Priorities
www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/CrossCurriculumPriorities/Aboriginal-and-Torres-Strait-Islander-histories-and-cultures
PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL LEARNING
Yarra Healing (Interactive program primary/ early secondary) Kulin Nation
www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/
www.sharingculture.com.au/eforschools.htm (small cost online learning resource)
Check with local council for youth leadership programs (opportunity to enhance intercultural understanding as well as personal and social competence by working outside the school environment.
ANTaR (has another extensive resources list for teachers)
www.antarvictoria.org.au/pages/useful-links.php
www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/ms2human_glance.htm
www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/ms2fq4acts.htm
AFL Indigenous programs
aflcommunityclub.com.au/index.php?id=604
Essendon Football club Indigenous programs
www.essendonfc.com.au/community/indigenous-programs
Traditional Aboriginal Games
www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/sport/traditional-aboriginal-games.html
Victorian government – Indigenous programs in sport
http://www.ashe.com.au/default.asp?ID=1
Resources
www.ausport.gov.au/participating/indigenous/resources/games_and_activities
Early years
www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/376139/SP_31864_TIG_resource_K-3.pdf
Years 4-6
www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/376140/SP_31864_TIG_resource_4-6.pdf
Years 7-9
www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/376141/SP_31864_TIG_resource_7-9.pdf
Years 10-12
www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/376142/SP_31864_TIG_resource_10-12.pdf
SCIENCE
Climate weather and Aboriginal culture
www.bom.gov.au/iwk/climate_culture/index.shtml
australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-inventions
Astronomy and Australian Indigenous people
www.assa.org.au/media/2912/aaaip.pdf
ART
www.abc.net.au/arts/artandsoul/about/default.htm
www.ngv.vic.gov.au/learn/schools-resources/remembering-barak
nga.gov.au/Education/indigenous.cfm
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art
www.nitv.org.au/fx-program.cfm?pid=1529CC90-9C5C-F7FA-BCEC7CC04C1A486F
BOOKS
Presland, G. 2010 ‘First People The Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Central Victoria.’ Museum Victoria.
Elender, I. 2001 ‘The People of the Merri Merri.’ Merri Creek Management Committee Inc.
Luck, I & Byrt, P 2006, “Meet The Eastern Kulin – The Aboriginal People of Central Victoria” Book and CD Rom (Yrs 6-10) Hawker Brownlow
Archie Roach “Took The Children Away” One Day Hill changed to Archie only based on publisher website credit
Hayes, A & Nelson A 2007 “Dreamtime at The G” Boomerang Books
Keeler, C & Couzens, V2010 “Meerreeng-An The Story of Aboriginal Victoria Told Through Art” Koorie Heritage Trust
Wiencke, S 1984 “When the Wattles Bloom Again” The life and times of William Barak, last chief of the Yarra Yarra tribe. Published by S.W. Wiencke in Victoria, Australia.
The Little Red, Yellow, Black Book, An introduction to Indigenous Australia. Aboriginal Studies Press
Bellear. L, Dreaming in Urban Areas UPQ (Poetry).
