Shane Motlap is the new Chair of the NTEU Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Committee. Council endorsed the unanimous resolution from the 2018 NTEU Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander National Forum where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates moved to continue the NTEU campaign to see treaties negotiated between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the Crown. More...Her profound commitments to social justice, feminism, the rights of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, and the peace movement have informed her work as an academic as well as a unionist. More...
By Geoff Maslen. Although completion rates remain low, Aboriginal Australians are enrolling in universities and graduating in greater numbers than ever before. New guidelines launched on Friday are aimed at assisting indigenous graduates who want to pursue research degrees and research careers. More...
By . It is now almost standard at conferences in Canada to start with a formal acknowledgement that we are standing on the unceded territory of the relevant First Nation or Nations. While important, indeed, necessary, it sometimes feels a bit like a token ritual, without really addressing the issues of colonialism or really understanding aboriginal culture or needs. More...
Intellectual Property Ownership: A Minefield for Creative AcademicsResearch on Distance Education for First Nations/aboriginals, from IRRODL, Vol. 15, No. 1
Tony Bates, online learning, distance edcuation resources, February 28, 2014
Tony Bates reviews an article from the latest issue of IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) dealing with the impact of distance education on Firts Nations / Aboriginal communities in Canada. More...
The Djirri Djirri dancers were founded in Victoria’s Yarra Valley in 2013. Since then they have been maintaining traditional Woiwurrung/Wurundjeri culture through “contemporary interpretations of culture with the essence of traditional dance and ceremony”. More...The 2018 General Elections and extension of nominations period have both been held. We are therefore pleased to announce that the following people have been successfully elected to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Committee for the next term of office. More...
By Geoff Maslen. Although employed in a supposedly `enlightened and accepting environment’, three-quarters of Indigenous Australians working as academics and general staff in the nation’s universities experience racism and discrimination, mostly from colleagues. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
