Abstract
This article discusses contemporary Aboriginal efforts for cultural self determination and self management in the context of Indigenous cultural revitalisation. It deals with a case of a how an Indigenous women’s child care organisation engages in revitalisation of traditional Australian Indigenous culture in urban context.
I will address the principles of a women’s Indigenous Family Care centre, Kummara, in Brisbane (Queensland) where I volunteered, and maintained an ethnographic research. What I can bring into the debate of cultural invention is an acknowledgement that the women of Kummara are aware of the innovative and adaptable nature of their own culture, communicate it, and understand it as a necessary process of cultural dynamism and change.