The announcement comes with little fanfare, but marks another huge moment for people power, for iwi, hapū, environmental groups, and the hundreds of thousands of people who for the last decade have maintained one of the most relentless campaigns of the modern era to put an end to deep sea oil exploration in New Zealand.
By Damien Finch, Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Melbourne Damien Finch, Author provided
In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter above the Drysdale River.
In a paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour, we date the artwork as being between 17,500 and 17,100 years old making it Australia’s oldest known in-situ rock painting.
We used a pioneering radiocarbon dating technique on 27 mud wasp nests underlying and overlying 16 different paintings from 8 rock shelters. We found paintings of this style were produced between 17,000 and 13,000 years ago.
The unexpected rescue mission that inspired ABC mini-series Flight into Hell â and other survivalists
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Adolph Klausmann, Captain Hans Bertram, Constable Gordon Marshall, and two unidentified Aboriginal men sitting on the ground after Klausmann and Bertram were rescued in Western Australia s Kimberley in June 1932.
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It s the unlikely tale of survival you d expect to see on the silver screen, not in the history books. When I tell you how the Samaritans of the wilds tended and cared for us, German aviator Hans Bertram would write years later, you ll understand that I wish to bear witness to the greatest and noblest virtue of the human soul â charity.