Skip to Main Content

Indigenisation resources: Land Use & Management

Resource portal to assist with locating Indigenous content for courses.

Land Use and Managment

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that videos on this page may contain images, voices or names of deceased persons

Featured videos

A collection of connection stories about the importance of cultural protocol as told by Aboriginal Elders from a range of groups in South Australia. They share teachings of their past and propose ways forward by coming together to reinvigorate cultural protocol, particularly in relation to the land. 'The land gives us everything,' says one elder

Hosted in the Library's ClickView database

This segment from Landline/ABC Regional News looks at recent devastating bushfires and the viewpoints of Bill Gammage who discusses 'modern' Australian fire management and traditional Aboriginal cool burning/cultural burning and argues that we now have more trees and therefore more combustible material than in what he calls 'Aboriginal times'.

Hosted in the Library's ClickView database

Featured resources

  • Planning NSW: Aboriginal land use planning - The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) aims to facilitate the return of land in NSW to Aboriginal people through claims over Crown land. The Act recognises that Aboriginal peoples have been dispossessed of their land through the process of colonisation.
  • Indigenous land management in Australia (PDF) - - ILM includes a wide range of environmental, natural resource, commercial, economic and cultural resource management activities undertaken by individuals, groups and organisations across Australia.
  • Cultural Land and Sea Management - Landcare Australia has curated cultural land management resources to assist individuals, groups and organisations involved in landcare activities strengthen connections with Traditional Owners and First Nations people.
  • Aboriginal Culture and Land Management - Traditional land management practices which can help landholders to manage weeds, promote native regrowth and improve biodiversity on their property.
  • Art & Architecture Source - Covers a broad range of subjects inclduing various areas of architecture and architectural design.
  • Informit Indigenous Collection - Contains specialist journals, conference papers, reports, magazines, eBooks and grey literature unavailable elsewhere online. Some full-text.
  • ProQuest databases - Over 15 journal databases of abstracted and full-text articles including Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection.
  • ScienceDirect Journals - Access full-text journal articles on architecture, construction and disaster management.