Dreamtime Explorers Australia

A great sight to see when the children are involved in activities and emerged in the importance of National Sorry Day🫶🏽👍🏽.

We work with over 380 centres in NSW, Corporate, Government and Community mob to bring cultural knowledge, education, storytelling and working towards unity for future generations.

This has to one of our favourite centres, but we also have a huge amount of Yindimarra (Respect) for Sutherland Shire Counvil children services and their Educators. The enthusiasm and passion from the team emerges culturally practices, respect and knowledge in embedded it in the ELYF , within the centre and children.
With guidance from Dreamtime Explorers Australia
and Uncle Eddie Wiradjuri Birrang , it brings joy to the children to learn more about Australia.🫶🏽❤️💛🖤.

National Sorry Day 2026 Dharawal Land , Thank you Sutherland Shire for your genuine love for Aboriginal Culture ❤️💛🖤👍🏽

An outstanding man that had a huge knowledge for the Australian bush, bush tucker, Native wildlife and was respected by the Aboriginal Lands he walked upon by the mobs 🫶🏽

Loved watching his Shows 🙌🔥
Major Les Hiddins, born Leslie James Hiddins in Brisbane in 1946, became one of Australia’s most respected bushcraft experts through his extraordinary combination of military experience, survival knowledge and deep appreciation for the Australian landscape. A retired Australian Army major and Vietnam veteran, Hiddins completed two tours of duty in Vietnam between 1966 and 1968, serving initially as a forward scout in the infantry before transferring to army aviation. His work flying helicopters across remote northern Australia sparked a lifelong fascination with survival in the harsh outback environment. During these years, he learned extensively from Indigenous Australians, particularly in Arnhem Land and Cape York, gaining invaluable knowledge about native plants, bush medicine and traditional food sources that had sustained Aboriginal communities for thousands of years.

Hiddins later became widely known across the country as “The Bush Tucker Man” through the hugely popular ABC television series that aired from the late 1980s through the 1990s. Travelling across deserts, rainforests, coastlines and remote wilderness areas in his trademark slouch hat and Land Rover, he introduced Australians to the remarkable variety of edible plants, animals and survival techniques found in the bush. His calm manner, dry humour and genuine passion for the land made the programme both educational and deeply entertaining. Unlike many television personalities, Hiddins earned admiration through practical expertise rather than performance, and viewers appreciated the authenticity he brought to every episode.

Beyond television, Hiddins made lasting contributions to Australian survival research and education. In 1987, he received a Defence Fellowship to research survival techniques in northern Australia and became the principal author of the Australian Army’s survival manual. The same year, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to the military in the field of combat survival. He also authored numerous books on bush tucker, exploration and Australian history, helping preserve traditional knowledge for future generations. Even in later life, Hiddins has remained passionate about educating Australians about the natural environment, continuing to share his knowledge through books, interviews and digital projects devoted to the unique resources of the Australian bush.

Old photo archive 🙌

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From the 3 nations that claim this land we recognise your journey and the history that it holds from truth telling, healing and progression of unity for a better future for those 3 clans sharing culture. We say the strongest words are unity, but with our own culture and Australia we lack the strength of yet unity of walking together 🫶🏽❤️💛🖤.

National Sorry day 2026

Hopefully one day we will have unity and balance 🫶🏽

Today we remember. We honour. We commit.

On National Sorry Day, we pause to reflect on the strength and resilience of the Stolen Generations and acknowledge the ongoing challenges faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities.

While apologies recognise past wrongs, meaningful change requires ongoing, concrete action.

Apologies must be accompanied by sustained efforts to address imbalance - words translated into tangible improvements in the lives of First Nations peoples.

◾Over-Representation in Child Protection: As of September 2025, 4.5% of First Nations children were on care and protection orders, unchanged from the same time last year. In contrast, the rate for non-Indigenous children declined from 0.5 to 0.4% during this period. (DCJ)

◾Family Violence: In 2023-24, Indigenous women aged 15 and over were 27 times more likely to be hospitalised due to family violence than non-Indigenous women. (AIHW)

◾Child Safety Concerns: Indigenous children are over-represented in areas where child safety and security are compromised, experiencing higher rates of hospitalisations and deaths due to injury compared to their non-Indigenous peers.

These figures underscore the necessity for systemic reforms and community-led initiatives.

For Aboriginal children and young people, sorry means listening, and action toward systemic change.

Come down and visit us there at one of the stalls for the upcoming NAIDOC week👍🏽

NAIDOC Week 2026🖤💛❤️💚💙🤍

Save the date: Tuesday 7 July from 10am–12.30pm at Oran Park Civic Precinct for Camden’s official NAIDOC Week Flag Raising Ceremony.

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/camdennaidocweek

For our fallen, serving and retired, we honour your service to our country 👍🏽

ANZAC Day is a time to remember those who served — but do you know the full story?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fought for Australia in every major conflict, often while facing discrimination at home.
So what challenges did they face? And how are these stories finally being recognised?. 👉 [https://www.sbs.com.au/language/assyrian/en/podcast-episode/assyrian-australia-explained-the-overlooked-story-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-service-on-anzac-day/4q7c18hfv]

Well done for your contribution Uncle Billy, as you have served the community and our youth with great passion and dedication. You have been advocate for so many and changed pathways for many of the mob.

We take this time to Thank you for your contribution and service in the South West Sydney Area Unk.

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Dreamtime Explorers Australia
Eddie Wiradjuri Birrang

Communities and Justice The NSW Department of Communities and Justice is the lead agency in the new Stronger Communities Cluster. The new Stronger Communities Cluster brings together, and replaces, the Family and Communities and Justice Clusters.

A warrior and an Aboriginal man that was not fearful, but proud to fight for his land and people .

They called him “Saturday.”
He answered as a king.

Windradyne was not a shadow because he was small.

He was a shadow because he understood terrain.

In the 1820s, the frontier around Bathurst, west of the Blue Mountains, was tightening like a noose. Settlers pushed outward with sheep and cattle. Fences cut across ancient pathways. Rivers were claimed. Hunting grounds narrowed. The Wiradjuri people, whose country stretched wide across what is now central New South Wales, felt the pressure in their stomachs before they saw it on maps.

Windradyne rose in that tightening.

The British wrote his name down as “Saturday,” a distortion born of convenience or misunderstanding. But among his own people he was known as a leader of immense physical presence. Accounts describe him as tall, broad shouldered, commanding. The kind of man whose silence carried weight.

The Shadow in the Dust moved differently depending on where he stood.

In the bush, he became invisible.

He led a guerrilla resistance that confounded settlers and soldiers alike. Small, precise attacks. Rapid retreats. Knowledge of waterholes, ridgelines, and scrub that no map could replicate. The bush was not wilderness to him. It was memory. It was muscle. It was inheritance.

British settlers, accustomed to open battlefield confrontation, struggled against an enemy who dissolved into landscape. They built homesteads on Wiradjuri land and found themselves exposed at the edges of cleared fields. Supply lines stretched thin. Anxiety grew.

By 1824, Governor Thomas Brisbane declared martial law in the Bathurst district.

Martial law is an admission of fear.

It meant soldiers were authorized to shoot Aboriginal people on sight. It meant the colony had acknowledged the conflict as war.

The Bathurst War was not a metaphor.

It was a collision between expansion and existence.

Windradyne did not meet soldiers in formal ranks. He used what he had: mobility, timing, knowledge of country. His campaign was not random violence. It was resistance to encroachment, a defense of land that had never been ceded.

The British feared him.

They also respected him.

There are stories, passed through both colonial accounts and oral histories, that describe him appearing at the edges of settlement, watching, assessing. A presence felt before it was seen.

But then something extraordinary happened.

Instead of vanishing deeper into the bush when martial law intensified, Windradyne did the opposite.

He walked.

Two hundred kilometers across the mountains to Parramatta.

Not in hiding.

Not under cover of darkness.

He walked into the colonial center itself during an annual feast held for Aboriginal people by Governor Brisbane.

Imagine the geometry of that moment.

The man who had been the colony’s most formidable opponent stepping into a space of British ceremony. Reports suggest he wore a hat with the word “peace” written upon it. Whether symbolic or strategic, the gesture was unmistakable.

The Shadow became visible.

In the bush, he had been a ghost.

In Parramatta, he stood like a sovereign.

It was not surrender.

It was presence.

By appearing publicly, unafraid, he reframed the narrative. He was not a fugitive skulking through trees. He was a leader representing his people. He confronted power not with apology but with stature.

The Connection between those two images is the essence of his legacy.

He moved through country as if it breathed with him.

He stood in settlement as if it did not diminish him.

Windradyne’s resistance eventually gave way to overwhelming colonial force. Martial law, violence, and displacement reshaped Wiradjuri land permanently. But his defiance carved a counter narrative into the colonial record.

He was not passive in the face of invasion.

He organized.

He fought.

He negotiated through presence.

In settler accounts, he is often reduced to an adversary. In Wiradjuri memory, he remains something larger.

A warrior who understood both the physics of ambush and the politics of visibility.

The Shadow in the Dust was never merely a fighter.

He was a reminder.

That sovereignty does not disappear because someone declares it so.

It moves through bush and settlement alike.

Sometimes unseen.

Sometimes standing in the open, daring the world to look away.