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This land was not peacefully settled. The exhibition Unsettled at the Australian Museum uncovers the untold histories behind this nation’s foundation story. In this powerful exhibition, First Nations voices reveal the hidden stories of devastation, survival and the fight for Read More

Everyone is welcome to join our Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Redfern Community Centre. It will be led by Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance, and experienced Wikipedia editors Toby Hudson and Caddie Brain. Kirsten’s professional and research interests relate to Indigenous self-determination in Read More

National Reconciliation Week runs from Thursday 27 May until 3 June 2021. This year the theme is ‘More than a Word. Reconciliation takes Action.’ Read more about Reconciliation Week here: https://nrw.reconciliation.org.au Featured events in the City of Sydney LGA: Kinchela Read More

A journalist returns to his hometown to revive the memory of the civil rights movement. Two mathematicians reveal the nuanced and advanced mathematics that underpin kinship systems. And a filmmaker puts our justice system on trial. Documentary Australia Foundation is Read More

Yabun Festival is the largest one day celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in Australia. It takes place on 26 January. Due to COVID-19 and related crowd restrictions Yabun will be a closed event in 2021, with the Read More

Curated by Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones, the SouthEast Aboriginal Arts Market will be held exclusively as an online market from 26 to 29 November 2020. Presented by Carriageworks. The market features 26 independent artists with over 250 artworks for Read More

This year NAIDOC Week will be online. The 2020 theme ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ recognises that First Nations peoples have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. The annual NAIDOC in the city event will be Read More

Astrophysicist Kirsten Banks joins journalist Jan Fran to explore the constellations present in our night sky and in the art featured in the Under the Stars exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. Looking at the cosmos from both an Indigenous Read More

In April 1770, strangers onboard the Endeavour appeared off the shores of Kamay (Botany Bay). This new exhibition at the State Library of NSW explores the eight days that followed and their continuing legacy. Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of Read More

You’re invited to join ‘Black Stories Matter’, a 4-part webinar series bringing together media researchers, historians, former policy makers and members of the growing cohort of Aboriginal journalists whose work is disrupting the patterns of the past. The series is presented by the Indigenous Read More