We are unbelievably proud to have won silver for Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism at the 2021 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards.

This year’s Invasion Day Rally was an online event filmed at piyura kitina (Risdon Cove).

You may have heard we won gold at the Tasmanian Tourism Awards in the category of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Tourism.

Beloved family member, deeply respected Elder, mentor, poet and author Auntie Phyllis Pitchford passed away in late-October. Yesterday the community came together to pay respect.

We’re excited to announce we’ve been named a finalist for this year’s Tourism Tasmanian Awards in the category of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism.

Our standing camp of krakani lumi has been recognised as one of the most unique places in Australia to spend a night or two.

When it comes to new places and experiences some people love the element of surprise while others prefer knowing what to expect. Here’s something for those who want a good idea of what’s coming.

"The first time I came to wukalina was the first time I came to my actual homeland. I felt a sense of connection the way I feel when I am home over on Cape Barren, very much in the presence of my Ancestors.”

During Reconciliation Week TasNetworks launched their Reflect Reconciliation Act Plan at the Elders Council of Tasmania Aboriginal Corporation. For TasNetworks “reconciliation is about building respect, relationships and opportunities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”.

“Being an Indigenous person doesn’t mean I know everything,” says Wingard, “and it doesn’t mean I know this part or that part of Australia. So to go through the Smoking Ceremony, be welcomed, that whole process of coming onto the native land is a special moment to go through that, and with the other brothers, it was pretty awesome to experience that”.

Muttonbirding is a cultural practice that is deeply important to the pakana/palawa community. Many of our guides and staff joined their families and friends over on tayaritja/Furneaux Islands this year from late March to share in some of the hardest physical work you could just about ever imagine choosing to do.

“The difference between us mob and your average tour guide,” explains Uncle Hank Horton, “is we open ourselves up, bare bones and all…. We don’t skirt the true history. You’ll learn about what it means to be Aboriginal and why being on Country is so important to us. We like to say that our tour is not a tour, it’s more a journey.”

Today the Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) publicly apologised to our community for past wrongdoings and contributions to systemic racism and dispossession. It’s an apology long overdue.

In response to the pandemic NAIDOC this year is at an entirely different time to the usual July celebrations, but the week feels no less important to our community. The 2020 theme is the powerful phrase Always Was, Always Will Be.

As Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people it’s in our DNA to adapt to change and the fact that we are still here today is testament to our extraordinary strength and resilience. The First Nations peoples of this continent are the longest surviving cultures in civilisation on this planet and we have no intention of giving up that crown.

Designed by an award-winning Hobart firm Taylor and Hinds, krakani lumi evolved through close conversation with the pakana/palawa community and the Aboriginal Land Council. The camp stands on our traditional homelands and is where the majority of the four-day Walk is spent including the first two nights.

This 4-day/3-night palawa owned and operated guided walk takes place in the areas of wukalina/Mt William National Park and larapuna/Bay of Fires areas. These are our traditional homelands.

Some have walked the Tasmanian landscape for thousands of years. wukalina is Tasmania’s latest multiday guided walk, an opportunity to experience the palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) culture across four days in the far North East.

I’m in the Apple Isle for what is called the wukalina Walk a three-night, four-day cultural, spiritual and physical hike that winds its way along the coastline of north-east Tasmania, officially launching on Sunday the 7th of January, 2018.

The Aboriginal Land Council’s wukalina Walk, a four-day experience in Mt William National Park, will set off for the first time on January 7.