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Tag: Australia

Deadly Spells
Art + Stories
Experiences

Deadly Spells

In some of Australia and New Zealand’s Indigenous communities, shamans are able to successfully will death on others – as long as the target believes in such ‘spells’.
Tomasz Wiśniewski
The Children of the Whale
World + People
Nature

The Children of the Whale

The Indigenous Mirning people of the Great Australian Bight are fighting to protect nature – both the land and the sea that they call home.
Agnieszka Burton
What a Blast
Art + Stories
Experiences, Art

What a Blast

A 1000-year-old musical instrument, created with the help of termites and played by using a seemingly impossible breathing loop. We present: the didgeridoo.
Iza Smelczyńska
Farmers of the Dreamtime
Art + Stories
Experiences, Fiction

Farmers of the Dreamtime

After colonizing Australia, white settlers rewrote the continent’s history. It is only now that their descendants are discovering the importance of Aboriginal agricultural practices.
Maciej Świetlik
The Heart of the Desert
World + People, Art + Stories
Nature, Experiences

The Heart of the Desert

Uluru – the sandstone rock formation in Australia that white colonialists named Ayer’s Rock – is a place of deep cultural and spiritual significance for Aboriginal peoples.
Aleksandra Reszelska
The Australian Alcatraz
Art + Stories
Experiences, Fiction

The Australian Alcatraz

Traveller Bartosz Twaróg talks about the unjust history of the Aboriginal peoples sent to Palm Island, where they were subjected to colonial violence for decades.
Jan Pelczar
Touch the Earth Lightly
Art + Stories
Fiction, Art

Touch the Earth Lightly

In the village of Yirrkala, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, stands a striking house. Designed by the architect Glenn Murcutt it pays homage to the cultural heritage of its Aboriginal inhabitant.
Zygmunt Borawski
From the Desert to Museums
Art + Stories
Art

From the Desert to Museums

Long marginalized as ‘primitive art’, the art of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia is slowly but surely gaining global recognition.
Karol Sienkiewicz
Borsch, Cabbage, and Fish
Soul + Body
Good Food

Borsch, Cabbage, and Fish

Growing up as a second-generation migrant entails finding one’s identity among mixed customs. This was especially the case for one daughter of Polish parents, who grew up celebrating Polish Christmas Eve (or Wigilia) in Australia.
Paulina Olszanka
Smoke Over Tasmania
World + People
Nature

Smoke Over Tasmania

In the midst of dry thunderstorms and climate change, Tasmania – an island known for having the cleanest air on Earth – is ablaze.
Emilia Dłużewska