ABORIGINAL SOCIETIES OF Australia have long struggled to reconcile their ways with modern pressures, but also to sustain and celebrate their 40,000-plus-year culture. Since the beginning of British colonisation in 1788, Aborigines have lost much of their land and many of their languages, and have suffered horrendous loss of life and dignity from Western diseases, disenfranchisement and social policies.
But Aboriginal communities are responding, and are creating organisations to address their cultural and political futures on their own terms. One such project is Madjulla, the namesake of a healing ...
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