1. Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples use resources in their environment
Country and Place: ‘Country’ is a space that individuals or groups of Aboriginal peoples occupy and regard as their own.
‘Place’ is a space that individuals or groups of Torres Strait islander peoples occupy and regard as their own.
The terms Country and Place describe more than just the land associated with an Aboriginal group or Torres Strait Islander group. While the land is important, some sites hold particular significance for individuals or groups, often for spiritual or ceremonial reasons.
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2. Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples use natural resources in their environment to help them in their day-to-day life. They have a strong tradition of using the available natural resources sustainably.

3. Custodial responsibility
Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples have an obligation to care for the Country/Place on which they live, even if they are not the traditional owners of that place.
Traditional owners have primary responsibility for Country/Place.
Responsibility for Country/Place influences how the resources of that place are used.
Source: Geography: Glossary (ACARA) CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AU creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/

4. Natural resource use - Food
An Aboriginal fish trap at Toorbul Point, built from rock that uses the tides to capture fish.
A fish cooked in fire embers. Paperbark used to wrap and protect the fish.
A wooden fish spear.

5. Natural resource use - cooking
A moorah stone is a specialized Aboriginal grinding stone.
A bailer shell bowl used by Kuku-Yalanji people.
An Aboriginal stone knife.

6. Natural resource use - cooking
A specialized dilly bag used as a colander by the Dyirbal Aboriginal people of North Queensland.
hatchet
An Aboriginal muller and grindstone.

7. Natural resource use - clothing
Warrior clothing from the Torres Strait.
Made from plant fibres and feathers.
An Aboriginal necklace made from animal teeth from the Normanton region.

8. Natural resource use - transport
Modern boat used by Galiwin’ku people in East Arnhem Land, used for travel and fishing.
Canoe, used by Guugu Yimithurr Aboriginal people, carved from a tree trunk. They are used to travel along rivers and between islands.

9. Natural resource use - work and tools
Tools were made from variety of natural resources, from grasses, wood, rocks and shells.
A far western Queensland Aboriginal chisel/adze.
A woven Aboriginal dilly bag from the Northern Territory.
A plaited bag from the Torres Strait Islands.

10. Natural resource use - housing and structures
A shelter made from tree branches to provide shade.
A bark-clad dome made of bark and flexible tree branches.

11. Natural resource use - leisure activities
Many games developed used natural resources to make the equipment needed. Other leisure activities included singing, dancing and playing musical instruments.
A ball from the Torres Strait Islands, made from plaiting palm leaves.

12. Natural resource use - leisure activities
Aboriginal clap sticks
Musical instruments made from wood. These are often decorated with paint made from crushing earthen materials.
Crushed ochre is added to water to make paint.

13. Natural resource use - medicine
Lemon myrtle leaves were used to treat skin aliments and headaches.
Turkey bush (Calytrix exstipulata) leaves were crushed to treat wounds, aches and pains. The wood was also used for firewood, and making spears, music sticks and woomera pegs.

14. Attributions
Slides 1-3: Reference: Geography: Glossary (ACARA) CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AU creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/au/ Slide 4: Aboriginal fish trap, Fish cooked in fire embers, Wooden fish spear - Images courtesy of Joseph Sambono. Used with permission. Grilled fish - Slides 5-12: Images courtesy of Joseph Sambono. Used with permission. Slide 13: Lemon myrtle - Image courtesy of Karen Scriven. Used with permission. Turkey bush - Image courtesy of Joseph Sambono. Used with permission.