By Niamh and Aisling

 Lots of Aborigines do unusual types of art like painting on leaves, rocks, sand and wood carvings.  Sand painting is pouring different coloured sand onto a surface to make a picture or pattern. The oldest rock paintings are up to 60,000 years old!

 Aborigines still sometimes have a harder time with employment, health and education, but awareness is growing fast. Even though you don’t see many aborigines working, a lot of them make a living out of selling their art or participating in tourism industry. Depending on where in Australia they lived, each community had their own Dreamtime Story, connected to their own landscape features, but despite all their differences aborigines have the same beliefs. They traced their origins back to Dreamtime, and believed that their ancestors roamed the country and left behind impressive rock formations and other natural phenomenon's, which became sacred places for religious celebrations and spiritual activities. What Aborigines wore depended on where in Australia they lived. Aborigines used boomerangs to catch animals to eat.

Australian Aboriginal food was very healthy. They were clever with weapons, such as boomerangs and spears! They were great at catching turtles, they learned how to drain waterholes and catch emus when they came for a drink, too. They also had an amazing knowledge about Australian plants, that are often poisonous, and what they couldn’t eat, they turned into medicine. Aborigines painted boomerangs, but mainly they use them to catch kangaroos and dingo's, which they ate once they had knocked them out.

 Their spiritual songs often tell about dreamtime’s ancestors and are by far their most famous instrument, the Aboriginal Didgeridoo!They danced to the Didgeridoo which is a wind instrument developed 1,500 years ago!

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