Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education sits uniquely in the Australian educational landscape as the only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dual sector tertiary education provider.
Under its ‘Both-ways’ philosophy, the Institute significantly provides an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lens to a mainstream education system.
A man goes hunting for kangaroo, he shoots the kangaroo and then cooks it. He takes the blood from the kangaroo to be used as a bush medicine. Dogs gets the meat at the end.
A story about a group of ladies who go out hunting with two dogs. They hunt for porcupine, and one gathers a plant for bush medicine. The two dogs chase a goanna up a tree and then the ladies kill the goanna. They go to the dinner camp and cook the goanna, and have a cup of …
This film is a snapshot of an inter-generational project called Arrwekeleny Lyeteny (old ways and new ways): learning and teaching about Bush Medicine. The project integrates language work, visual arts, film making and bush medicine research in a remote educational setting. The …
This film grew from language, art and filmmaking workshops throughout 2008. This is the story about a woman who goes out hunting and gets sick. Her mother is angry at the others in the party who did not take care of her daughter, so they go hunting for a lizard and ilpengk bush …
Photographic slideshow with voice-over about ilpengk bush medicine. It includes collection, processing, mixing with fat, boiling, straining and decanting. Finally, the medicine is applied.
A group of young girls go and dig up a plant called lywemp-lywemp. They mix it with water and put it in their hair to make it shiny and long.
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