The Conversation

Be rooted: learning from Aboriginal dyeing and weaving

Elizabeth Dori Tunstall receives funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Australia China Council Grant. I am back after two long journeys to India, regional and then remote ...
The Taipei Times

Aboriginal weaving granted heritage status

The Ministry of Culture has designated two traditional Aboriginal weaving techniques as intangible cultural heritage and is to draft plans for their preservation. The two techniques — gaya tminun of ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Scientists call on Indigenous knowledge to save golden-tipped bats as Black Summer bushfires destroy habitat

Traditional Aboriginal weaving techniques are being used to create nests for a tiny, threatened bat species in New South Wales. The golden-tipped bat is found in rainforest gullies along the eastern ...
SBS

Comment: Be rooted learning from Aboriginal dyeing and weaving

This past June and July as part of the Swinburne’s Living Blue Oz project, I co-hosted 12 Chinese, three Indian, and five Melbourne-based designers, including myself, for a two-week cultural exchange ...