Indigenous art project
An innovative Indigenous art project has transformed the Melbourne Graduate School of Education to recognise the place of Indigenous Knowledges in education and create a culturally safe, welcoming, and respectful environment for Indigenous people.
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The Melbourne Graduate School of Education's partnership with the Yambirrpa schools (Yirrkala and Laynhapuy Homelands) provides the opportunity for pre-service teachers to complete their final practicum placement in North East Arnhem Land and Yuendumu.
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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 moreIndigenous History of the University of Melbourne
In November 2019, the University held a research colloquium on Place and Indigenous cultural recognition. An outcome of the Colloquium was an acknowledgement that the University’s histories are contested and the need to formally acknowledge our institutional and colonial past and our complicity with respect to eugenics and scientific racism. On this basis and in order to meet our Advancing Melbourne and elevate Reconciliation Action Plan commitments with respect to Place, the University commissioned an Indigenous led research project to properly articulate that contested history.
Truth-telling and Place: Contested Histories of the University of Melbourne (2022)
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We are Country
Ensuring culturally safe research isn’t simply acknowledging Country, it's recognising and empowering Indigenous Knowledge, says University of Melbourne expert.
Indigenous data governance for the 21st century
A new University of Melbourne project aims to create an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Data Commons to empower communities with data.
How data expertise is fostering endangered languages
The PARADISEC digital archive model revitalising endangered languages in the Pacific has been taken up in North America, says a University of Melbourne expert.
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.