Learning on Country, talking about an educational movement
Seminar
Recording available here Overview: In this seminar, Associate Professor Bill Fogarty will be in conversation with Professor Valerie Cooms discussing the highly successful Learning on Country Program running in the Northern Territory. The seminar will cover the program's history, the role…
Storying the Archive: First Nations Creative Writing and Archival Intervention
Seminar
Recording available here Overview: No archiving system adequately responds to the interconnected and relational knowledge systems of First Nations peoples. My writing and research aim to explore the potential of First Nations Storytelling, which supports the interconnection of everything…
Time for a Treaty - Are We Ready Yet?
Seminar
Recording available here Treaty in Australia is necessary. Our collective history of dispossession is built on racism, violence, massacres, and a lack of humanity held by colonisers towards First Nations’ sovereignty and personhood. A Treaty in Australia will go some way to responding to…
Connected: Rooftop solar, prepay and reducing energy insecurity in remote Australia
Seminar
Recording available here Overview Australia is a world leader in the per-capita deployment of rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) with more than three million households realizing benefits including reduced energy bills and improved energy security. However, these benefits are unevenly distributed.…
Success and Failure in Australian Indigenous Policy: Moral Dynamics and Rhetorical Registers
Seminar
Overview How are ideas of failure and success used in Australian Indigenous policy? This question came to me in 2007 when I heard a philanthropist, newly involved in Indigenous affairs, tell a simple success story. The ideas of moral dynamics and rhetorical registers helped me…
Decarbonisation and decolonisation: First Nations people and the national goals of net zero emissions and biodiversity conservation
Seminar
Recording available here Overview: Australia has a new government promoting a new economy transitioning to renewable energy and net zero decarbonisation, while simultaneously enhancing biodiversity conservation and ensuring Indigenous heritage protection. The challenge…
Upholding and recognising Aboriginal Peoples’ right to fish: Case study focused on South Coast Aboriginal People, NSW Australia
Seminar
Recording available here. Overview: Settler Colonialism is generally blind to Aboriginal people’s rights and the asserted legal basis for the transfer of property from Aboriginal People continues to be examined and challenged. Meanwhile Aboriginal Peoples…