From mission control to Aboriginal control?: The ‘safety zone’ and bilingual education at Shepherdson College, Galiwin’ku, 1973-1983
Seminar
Abstract A confluence of factors brought bilingual education to some remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory throughout the 1970s—including the work of missionary linguists in assisting to develop literacy in a small number of Aboriginal languages. However, what remains…
Voices from Jakarta: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Seminar
Voices from Jakarta is a documentary film based on The Greater Jakarta Transition to Adulthood Longitudinal Survey. The study examines the life courses of young people, how changes in the lives of young Indonesians affect their progression to becoming independent, secure adults and in what ways…
Lenses of change and the business of process: Towards an ecological praxis of engagement
Seminar
Abstract: Engagement with Indigenous peoples is embedded in an ecological holistic world consisting of webs of social, political, cultural and economic relationships. The connectivity to which ecological thinking often refers does not only exist between humans and the natural world as is often…
Book Launch: 'True Biographies of Nations?'
Book launch
Please join the NCB as it launches the latest ANU.Lives book ‘True Biographies of Nations?’: The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography, edited by Karen Fox. The book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical…
A Treaty Together: How We Move Forward to Heal the Nation
Seminar
Alwyn Doolan a Gooreng Gooreng Wakka Wakka man has met with over 50 indigenous sovereign First Nation Peoples on his 8500km Message Stick Walk to Canberra. He has come to hand over three message sticks and a Tribal Lore notice to the Australian Government with the message that a treaty must be…
Language ecologies: a tool for understanding linkages between Indigenous languages and well-being
Seminar
Abstract There has been growing acknowledgement of a connection between First Nations people’s languages and their well-being, based on Indigenous voices and other research, in Australia and overseas. However, the evidence that connects and quantifies the relationship between the use of Indigenous…
Europa Policy Lab: Contributing to the Transition from Linear to Circular Urban Water Management
Seminar
This Europa Policy Lab is supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. View the slides from this seminar (PDF) The ‘cradle to cradle’ economic model for resource use and management provides many more opportunities for sustainable development than the current ‘cradle to grave’…