With access to precious cultural and linguistic knowledge on country for the first time, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies has expanded its reach outside Canberra.
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    A new facility in Alice Springs will allow Indigenous locals to access precious cultural and linguistic knowledge on country for the first time, without having to fly to Canberra.

    The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) opened a new centre in Mparntwe-Alice Springs on Thursday.

    It is the first time AIATSIS — the only collecting institute in Australia exclusively focused on Indigenous history and culture — has opened a facility outside the nation’s capital.

    The new centre will give Aboriginal communities in Central Australia better access to more than one million cultural items — the largest collection of its kind in the world.

    Interim chief executive and Ngemba man Leonard Hill said they had chosen Alice Springs as the location of its new site for a number of reasons.

    AIATSIS has been working closely with the organisation, using state-of-the-art technology to preserve, digitise and store at-risk cultural material.

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