As a journalist and historian, I have incredible admiration for Aboriginal Australian songlines
The commitment to fidelity and detail is astounding
This story, in particular, completely blew my mind:
The commitment to fidelity and detail is astounding
This story, in particular, completely blew my mind:
Modern science discovered these ancient artefacts, confirming millennia-old Songlines
Songlines from at least 22 Aboriginal nations around the continent predate sea level rises from thousands of years ago.
www.sbs.com.au
April 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM
As a journalist and historian, I have incredible admiration for Aboriginal Australian songlines
The commitment to fidelity and detail is astounding
This story, in particular, completely blew my mind:
The commitment to fidelity and detail is astounding
This story, in particular, completely blew my mind:
January 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I never walk more than when I’m in London. Hours a day. Streets I know, streets I don’t… it’s almost like the Aboriginal Songlines, and if I don’t regularly come back to my city & walk it, London will cease to exist. And in a way, with its constant inexorable morphing, maybe it WOULD disappear.
August 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I never walk more than when I’m in London. Hours a day. Streets I know, streets I don’t… it’s almost like the Aboriginal Songlines, and if I don’t regularly come back to my city & walk it, London will cease to exist. And in a way, with its constant inexorable morphing, maybe it WOULD disappear.
One of the world's oldest 'art galleries' lives on the rock faces of this Australian cultural site. These people have sworn to protect it
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/mur...
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/mur...
The 'custodians' of this ancient site have preserved over 50,000 years of storytelling
The songlines at Murujuga hold ancient lessons from Indigenous communities that occupied the land centuries ago.
www.goodgoodgood.co
June 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
One of the world's oldest 'art galleries' lives on the rock faces of this Australian cultural site. These people have sworn to protect it
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/mur...
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/mur...
#songlines extend back 40,000yrs: >10x older than Ancient Egypt. Proud of our oldest living culture
December 4, 2023 at 10:59 AM
#songlines extend back 40,000yrs: >10x older than Ancient Egypt. Proud of our oldest living culture
Gippsland's Boorun Boys are reclaiming their cultural heritage, preserving ancient songlines and creating new ones as they honour their ancestors through dance.
Boys create original songlines to preserve and pass down 60,000 years of culture
Gippsland's Boorun Boys are reclaiming their cultural heritage, preserving ancient songlines and creating new ones as they honour their ancestors through dance.
www.abc.net.au
December 27, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Gippsland's Boorun Boys are reclaiming their cultural heritage, preserving ancient songlines and creating new ones as they honour their ancestors through dance.
Today at Vapriikki museum centrum: songlines -exhibition from Australia
November 30, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Today at Vapriikki museum centrum: songlines -exhibition from Australia
Vapriikissa oli hieno näyttely: Songlines - seitsemän sisaren tarina
December 29, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Vapriikissa oli hieno näyttely: Songlines - seitsemän sisaren tarina
Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines
theconversation.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
'Unbroken whispers': How Indigenous women in Australia map whale songlines.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'Unbroken whispers': How Indigenous women map whale songlines
A trio of First Nations researchers is blending traditional knowledge and science to map whale migration and advocate for improved conservation.
www.sbs.com.au
September 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
'Unbroken whispers': How Indigenous women in Australia map whale songlines.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
"Murujuga is home to my people’s culture and is also the beginning point for songlines, which is home to other people’s cultures.”
Songlines are a map of a story throughout the landscape.
This knowledge is then passed on to other groups and carried on throughout the land."
Songlines are a map of a story throughout the landscape.
This knowledge is then passed on to other groups and carried on throughout the land."
Ancient rock art in northern WA shows Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian devil
There are more than 2 million artworks on the rocks at Murujuga, with more stories under the waves.
www.abc.net.au
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Murujuga is home to my people’s culture and is also the beginning point for songlines, which is home to other people’s cultures.”
Songlines are a map of a story throughout the landscape.
This knowledge is then passed on to other groups and carried on throughout the land."
Songlines are a map of a story throughout the landscape.
This knowledge is then passed on to other groups and carried on throughout the land."
Joyce Kozloff
Bodies of Water: Songlines
Bodies of Water: Songlines
September 6, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Joyce Kozloff
Bodies of Water: Songlines
Bodies of Water: Songlines
SONGLINES for Younger Readers
I am really chuffed by this review of 'Songlines for Younger Readers'. It encapsulates exactly the reason Margo and I wrote both the adult 'Songlines: the power and promise', and this Younger Readers version.
thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/2025/08/26/s...
I am really chuffed by this review of 'Songlines for Younger Readers'. It encapsulates exactly the reason Margo and I wrote both the adult 'Songlines: the power and promise', and this Younger Readers version.
thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/2025/08/26/s...
Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers | The Bottom Shelf
thebottomshelf.edublogs.org
August 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
SONGLINES for Younger Readers
I am really chuffed by this review of 'Songlines for Younger Readers'. It encapsulates exactly the reason Margo and I wrote both the adult 'Songlines: the power and promise', and this Younger Readers version.
thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/2025/08/26/s...
I am really chuffed by this review of 'Songlines for Younger Readers'. It encapsulates exactly the reason Margo and I wrote both the adult 'Songlines: the power and promise', and this Younger Readers version.
thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/2025/08/26/s...
Australians claim colonisation & settlement was a peaceful, harmonious handing over of lands.
It was a struggle & genocide.
Land is STILL taken coercively. NWShelf project is a prime example.
✊🏾Respect to Save Our Songlines & Mardudhunera custodian Raelene Cooper
youtu.be/nI1AWKraIH8?...
It was a struggle & genocide.
Land is STILL taken coercively. NWShelf project is a prime example.
✊🏾Respect to Save Our Songlines & Mardudhunera custodian Raelene Cooper
youtu.be/nI1AWKraIH8?...
‘Genocide’: Murujuga custodian speaks out against Woodside’s 50-year extension
YouTube video by Save Our Songlines
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January 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Australians claim colonisation & settlement was a peaceful, harmonious handing over of lands.
It was a struggle & genocide.
Land is STILL taken coercively. NWShelf project is a prime example.
✊🏾Respect to Save Our Songlines & Mardudhunera custodian Raelene Cooper
youtu.be/nI1AWKraIH8?...
It was a struggle & genocide.
Land is STILL taken coercively. NWShelf project is a prime example.
✊🏾Respect to Save Our Songlines & Mardudhunera custodian Raelene Cooper
youtu.be/nI1AWKraIH8?...
Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...
Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’
The emerging field of Cultural Astronomy is unravelling how Indigenous understandings of the night sky is linked to navigating "songlines".
cosmosmagazine.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...
Ancient Indigenous 'Songlines' Match Long-Sunken Landscape off Australia www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
Ancient Indigenous 'Songlines' Match Long-Sunken Landscape off Australia
Researchers have found ancient watering holes long ago buried by rising seas. The watering holes may be ones referred to in an Indigenous Australian songline
www.scientificamerican.com
January 2, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Ancient Indigenous 'Songlines' Match Long-Sunken Landscape off Australia www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
Las Songlines hacen referencias a lugares que deben ser recordados para poder continuar la ruta.
November 29, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Las Songlines hacen referencias a lugares que deben ser recordados para poder continuar la ruta.
This reminded me of Songlines, www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Songlines: the Indigenous memory code - ABC listen
Like oral cultures around the world, Indigenous Australians use cues from the landscape to recall and pass on important knowledge, cultural values and wisdom.
www.abc.net.au
September 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
This reminded me of Songlines, www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Huge thanks to Julian May for this gorgeous write up in Songlines. Come and join us 30th July - 6th August 2027.
September 25, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Huge thanks to Julian May for this gorgeous write up in Songlines. Come and join us 30th July - 6th August 2027.