Wominjeka
Professor Marcia Langton speaks at Wominjeka 2021
Australian Research Council funds historical frontier violence project
The Australian Research Council has awarded $488,142 to the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research for their project on historical frontier violence: drivers, legacy and the role of truth-telling.
Read moreMelbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health PhD students’ achievements
Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health celebrate the achievements of their PhD students as they reached significant milestones in their higher research degrees.
Read moreMelbourne Indigenous STEM Education Program
The Melbourne Indigenous STEM Education Program (MISEP) is a series of Indigenous-led, hands-on, curriculum-based workshops that aim to engage high school students with Indigenous STEM knowledges.
Read moreIndigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne: A truth-telling of our shared history
As part of National Reconciliation Week 2021, Murrup Barak Director Inala Cooper sat down to talk with historians Dr Ross Jones and Dr James Waghorne about an Indigenous-led research project created to properly articulate the University's contested history and formally acknowledge its institutional and colonial past.
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The Three Streams of Dilin Duwa
Dilin Duwa means ‘everlasting flow’ in the Woi Wurrung language of the Wurundjeri people whose lands the Dilin Duwa Centre for Indigenous Business Leadership stands on. More...
Meet Ngioka Bunda-Heath: 2022 Hutchinson Fellow
Ngioka Bunda-Heath is a Wakka Wakka, Ngugi and Birrpai dancer and storyteller whose choreographic works are a deep excavation of her cultural and ancestral histories. She is also a woman of many firsts: the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from the dance program at the VCA, and now, the first choreographer and dancer to receive the prestigious Hutchinson Indigenous Fellowship and Residency at the University of Melbourne. More...
Australia’s natural, cultural heritage must be restored to reduce emissions: report
More than thirty researchers, conservation and climate change experts, land managers and First Nations knowledge holders are calling for greater protection and restoration of Australia’s natural environment and cultural traditions, to meet our emissions reduction goals and mitigate the threat of climate change. More...
Tiwi Island collaboration to double forestry exports in seven years
The University of Melbourne is partnering in a project expected to double the export value of the Tiwi Islands forestry industry from $6 million to $12 million. More...
2021 in pictures
Wominjeka
Shauntai Batzke performing at Wominjeka
National Reconciliation Week
N'arweet Carolyn Briggs speaks at Lighting the Wilin during National Reconciliation Week
Dungala Kaiela Oration
Josephine Sukkar delivered the 2021 Dungala Kaiela Oration
Narrm Oration
Prof Papaarangi Reid delivered the 2021 Narrm Oration
Narrm Oration
The Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health hosted the Narrm Oration dinner.
Why wait? Treaty and the Federal election
First Nations people shouldn’t have to wait for non-Indigenous Australians to catch up when it comes to committing to Treaty say University of Melbourne experts
Embracing queer Indigenous Australia
Health services need to cater to the whole person as a human right, and that includes Indigenous LGBTIQ+ Australians, argues University of Melbourne expert.
First Nations peoples as political designers
First Nations peoples must step into their ancient role as political designers to reshape Australian policy and institutions says University of Melbourne expert
Australia’s rivers are ancestral beings
Rivers are recognised as legal persons and living entities. Experts, including University of Melbourne, say Australia's rivers are Indigenous ‘ancestral beings’
Indigenous knowledge and the myth of ‘wilderness’
Aboriginal ideas of ‘wilderness’ contrast with romantic ideas of a pristine environment. And it excludes Indigenous people, say University of Melbourne experts.
Leaving no one behind
A University of Melbourne expert says this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples recognises the rights and social equity of Indigenous peoples.
Healing Country
We need to recognise the deep knowledge First Peoples bring in managing and adapting to changing environments, says a University of Melbourne expert.
The power of the Indigenous business sector
Each year, Indigenous businesses bring in around $A5 billion, now University of Melbourne research reveals the extent of the power of Indigenous business.
Sky fireballs and a shark in the stars: Indigenous art and astronomy
Meriam elder Uncle Segar Passi shares his knowledge of weather, wildlife, sea, land and sky and how they influence his artwork with University of Melbourne