Mapping project shows how extensive frontier violence was in Queensland
First Nations people, please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.
First Nations people, please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people.
Archaeology
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A University of Queensland-led research team says the key to a more sustainable food future may be a better understanding of ancient Indigenous food production systems.
Archaeology
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For almost 10 years, debate has raged over the book Dark Emu by Aboriginal historian Bruce Pascoe. In it, Pascoe argues many pre-colonial Aboriginal groups were farmers, pointing to examples like eel aquaculture in Victoria, ...
Archaeology
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Australia's tropical northern rivers still run wild and free. These relatively pristine areas have so far avoided extensive development. But this might not last. There are ongoing scoping studies exploring irrigating agricultural ...
Plants & Animals
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Marginalized communities who distrust the legal system can benefit from access to lawyers "on their side" placed within trusted health and social care settings, according to new research by Nottingham Law School which explores ...
Social Sciences
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Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia's eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the first archaeological evidence of visitors from Southeast Asia ...
Archaeology
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Justice reinvestment emerged in the United States more than 20 years ago as a way to reduce mass incarceration and its vast costs by addressing the social drivers of imprisonment.
Social Sciences
May 2, 2023
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In 2015, Gkuthaarn and Kukatj community members of Queensland's Gulf Country invited us to excavate, analyze, and rebury the skeletal remains of eight young Indigenous people who died near the town of Normanton in the late ...
Archaeology
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Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millennia and the practice helped reduce bushfire risk in the past, our new research shows.
Environment
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What are "fairy circles"? They are polka dots of bare earth, regularly scattered across arid grasslands. Scientists first described fairy circles in Namibia in the 1970s and sparked a global debate in the scientific community ...
Ecology
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