On 20 May 2021, the Vice President (First Nations Portfolio), Peter Yu, co-hosted with ANCLAS a briefing of Latin American Ambassadors on the ANU’s capabilities and priorities on indigenous issues.

Presenters included Bill Fogarty (Deputy Director, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research/CAEPR) , Minda Murray (Academic Associate, CAEPR), Santiago Ballina (Third Secretary, Embassy of Mexico), Virginia Marshall (Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Regulation and Governance) and Raglan Maddox (Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program, College of Health and Medicine).

Ambassadors noted there were an estimated 42 million indigenous people in Latin America. They agreed there would be significant value in exploring the potential for closer engagement between ANU researchers and counterparts in their own countries to address common challenges such as governance, land tenure, inequality of access and economic empowerment.