For 50,000 years, Australia’s First Peoples have traveled long distances using star maps in the night sky. But how do these Aboriginal dreaming tracks work, and why do we call their oral transmission, ...

Songlines on Screen is a special collaboration between Screen Australia and NITV that presents eight short films from the remote regions of Western, Northern and Central Australia. These films ...

As tense as a Hollywood epic, and as multi-layered as Greek mythology, the Seven Sisters dreamtime story rivals some of the great narratives. Seven sisters leave Roeburn in Western Australia, tracking ...

The theme of Naidoc week is songlines. For the uninitiated – and that is most non-Indigenous Australians – songlines challenge the way we think about history How many non-Indigenous Australians know ...

Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a peerless exhibition of Aboriginal art, thrilling in its breadth and depth. Seven years in the planning, now showing at the National Museum of Australia, it ...

Bruce Chatwin’s book opened my mind to Indigenous spiritual belief. I’ve since learned to glimpse beyond his take on ‘songlines’ I’ve been thinking again a fair bit about Indigenous songlines these ...