Aboriginal electoral power in the Northern Territory: Reality and potential viewed from the 2019 Federal election
Seminar
Abstract It is often said that, as 3% of the Australian population, Aboriginal people have no electoral power. But in the Northern Territory, Aboriginal people constitute around 30% of the population. Can this lead to real or potential electoral power? This seminar reviews past work on Aboriginal…
Motherhood under the microscope: Perspectives from the social sciences
Seminar
What makes a good mother? What makes a mother at all? Where does motherhood come from? The nature of motherhood has perhaps never been more controversial or debated as it is today. The ANU Gender Institute and Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences invite you to this special National Science Week…
‘Settled reconciliation’ in education policy and practice: How celebrations of reconciliation can silence Indigenous diversity and agency, and perpetuate racism
Seminar
Abstract Since Australia’s formal reconciliation process began almost thirty years ago, the education system has been viewed as having a critical role in un-silencing Australia’s past by increasing the awareness of children and young people to diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
The demographic consequences of migration to, from and within Australia
Seminar
This presentation focuses on recent efforts to create a complete, consistent and detailed account of population change in Australia for assessing the specific contributions of migration and for studying the dynamic population movements that produced them. With increasing trends in life expectancy…
Disruption in First Nations Education
Seminar
Abstract Education is often described as the single most important key in turning around social disadvantage and economic marginalisation as well as in bolstering cultural affirmation and environmental care. And yet, do current policy settings in education meet the needs and aspirations of…
Indigenous-led verification of environmental, social and cultural outcomes of carbon farming.
Seminar
Abstract Carbon farming is an opportunity for on-going ‘untied’ income for Indigenous communities. The Australian Government through the Emissions Solution Fund buys Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU) for ‘lowest cost abatement’. If carbon farming demonstrates environmental, social and…
Indigenous Affairs in a social media age: Q&A session with Luke Pearson on IndigenousX
Seminar
Indigenous Affairs in a social media age: Q&A session with Luke Pearson on IndigenousX Policy making is changing in the social media age, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Indigenous Affairs. Social media has empowered a diverse range of Indigenous people to have a voice in policy issues,…