We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a… — Jessica Mauboy Copy Share Image
“If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
“Writing about Aboriginal themes means joining the dots from the colonial policies of the past to the problems faced by First Nations,… — Lynda A. Archer Copy Share Image
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I have written with some amazing singers and songwriters - the moment with Snoop Dogg was amazing - but being able to… — Jessica Mauboy Copy Share Image
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If the Texans had kept out of my country, there might have been peace. But that which you now say we must… — Ten Bears Comanche Nation Copy Share Image
We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“The time has come for you, your Tribe, and all First Peoples. Together, you must learn, remember, and teach the languages, songs,… — Frederic M. Perrin Copy Share Image
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
I want to keep educating the world on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. It's who I am. It's what I… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals. — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always… — Shari Sebbens Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white… — Shari Sebbens Copy Share Image
Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been… — Lowitja O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the… — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I ask every Australian to think about what the constitutional exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, to see our… — Adam Goodes Copy Share Image
Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about… — Peter Sculthorpe Copy Share Image
As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of… — Neville Bonner Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of… — Lionel Rose Copy Share Image
The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the… — Ken Wyatt Copy Share Image
Its been instilled in me since I was young that I have to use my platform to change the world. Thats something… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
