Over 2000 generations of Aboriginal families have lived on and with this land over thousands of years. Scientific research shows that the Tasmanian Aborigines lived in Southern Tasmania before and through the last ice age. Artefacts dating back 42,000 years show Aboriginal people were using stone tools and following religious observances in Tasmania at […]

Aboriginal culture in Australia is the oldest continuing cultural practice on earth with archaeological evidence of these practices extending back more than 60,000 years. It is important to recognise there is no single Aboriginal culture and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples represent more than 200 individual Nations with diversity in beliefs, customs and language. […]

In Tasmania in less than 100 years Aboriginal people went from nine fully functioning nations spread across Tasmania to less than 50 people mostly exiled to one island, under the control of white authorities. This devastated traditional Aboriginal family knowledge and values. Colonisation, ongoing racism, inequality, and different social and cultural values have had a […]

Here we examine our own cultural realities and the attitudes we bring to each new person we encounter in our practice. The goal is to become open minded and flexible in your attitudes towards people from differing cultures to whom you offer and deliver a service. You will be asked to reflect on your own […]

Some of the things that will help when consulting with the Aboriginal community include:   In Tasmania, the Aboriginal community prefer Aboriginal or Aborigine (capital ‘A’) not Indigenous. Tasmanian Aboriginal Community – is the best way to collectively describe all Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples. Palawa/pakana – is the Tasmanian Aboriginal language. It is ok to use […]