Governing the Pandemic: The Role of Indigenous Organisations
Seminar
To watch a video of this seminar click here ABSTRACT Twelve months ago, with the Covid-19 declared to be an international pandemic, in Australia grave concerns were expressed for the health and well-being of Indigenous people and their communities. Today, probably the first time in…
The Indigenous service market: conflicting ontological ways of seeing urban First Nations organisations in the era of NPM
Seminar
ABSTRACT The presentation will analyse the quantitative findings of a three-year mixed-method research project developed in partnership with six urban First Nations organisations in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). The research is designed to provide urban First Nations organisations…
The Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group: A governance group for grass-roots programs reflects on five years’ work.
Seminar
Abstract: The Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group (TWFSG) was re-established in 2014 after 20 years without funding. A need was identified by Aboriginal Town Camp Leaders for an organised voice and action on domestic, family and sexual violence (DF&SV). The TWFSG’s grass-roots…
Reviewing Economics in the light of Indigenous perspectives: Can this help us make better decisions concerning the environment?
Seminar
Abstract Environmental problems like the current climate crisis are making it more clear than ever that our relationship with the Earth needs to change. This implies, among the other things, questioning how we make decisions that affect the environment, recognizing that the methods we are using—…
Indigenous cultural capital – an inescapably political concept
Seminar
Abstract This paper will develop some ideas broached in the recent essay collection The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural fields (eds Bamblett, Myers and Rowse, Aboriginal Studies Press 2019). The paper will begin by making three observations about the…
WIPLRN Seminar - Professor Jakelin Troy
Seminar
The ANU Women engaged in Indigenous Policy and Law Research Network (WIPLRN) has the pleasure to announce Professor Jakelin Troy will be the Network’s guest in October. Jakelin Troy is a Ngarigu woman and Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at The University of Sydney.…
Mass incarceration of First Nations people: the legacy of invasion for Australia’s criminal justice system
Seminar
Abstract “The justice system is broken” is a common phrase heard in advocacy regarding the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. However, today’s criminal justice system was built on colonial policies of dispossession, slavery, discrimination and oppression of First…