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Photo: Sarah Fisher/University of Melbourne
Indigenous plant use booklet launched
Emanating from her inspirational work on the Living Pavilion exhibition, University of Melbourne colleague and Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston has compiled a booklet on the medicinal, nutritional and technological use of indigenous plants from the lands of the Kulin Nation. For the Indigenous Plant Use booklet, each plant featured in the inspirational Living Pavilion pop-up garden has been carefully researched and curated. Thank you Zena and the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub for making this valuable resource available.
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University appoints inaugural Director of Indigenous Knowledge Institute
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Perspectives on the destruction of Juukan Gorge
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The National Indigenous Business Summer School 2020
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Research into Melbourne's pre-colonial landscape
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2019 Narrm Oration: Revitalising the Hawaiian language
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2019 Lin Onus Oration: The need for truthing in language rematriation
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2019 in pictures
National Reconciliation Week
Photo: Paul Burston/University of Melbourne
Ancestral Memory Exhibition
Photo: Christian Capurro
Dungala Kaiela Oration
Photo: Peter Casamento
Narrm Oration
Photo: Peter Casamento
Australian literature’s great silence
A new University of Melbourne study says we must question the very white stories told in our classrooms and the lack of Indigenous authors in the curriculum.
The time is now for Indigenous design equity
Indigenous Australians have long been architects, engineers and land managers; a University of Melbourne expert says that wisdom must help tackle climate change
Always was and always will be Aboriginal water
Australia needs to have a serious discussion about Indigenous water rights and Indigenous Voice in water management, say University of Melbourne experts.
Is Our Story respected and valued?
Dr Lois Peeler AM explores how respect for Indigenous knowledge could change Australia in the annual Dungala Kaiela Oration with the University of Melbourne.
Reconciliation and the Anglo-Australian Football League
A University of Melbourne expert says racism experienced by footballer Robert Muir highlights that the AFL's support of reconciliation remains a question mark.
The mathematics of evolution
Dr Jared Field’s work in mathematical biology is working to understand real-world issues – and has landed him in the ABC's Top 5 Media Residency Program.