News 📰

• Welcoming Kirsten Clark as Interim Institute Manager
• We have one RTP scholarship still available for PhD candidates undertaking research related to Indigenous knowledge. See further information at our website. Please contact us at indigenous-knowledge@unimelb.edu.au as soon as possible to express your interest. 

Events 🎟️

Upcoming events

• NAIDOC Week webinar: "Healing Country, Healing Futures: Aspirations for Country and Community", Tuesday 6 July, 6:30 PM

In the media 📺

• Rainforest Redux with Michael-Shawn Fletcher - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher chats to Supplementary Information about the use of fire by Indigenous people and the impact that it had on shaping the natural environment
• Cosmos Magazine - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher on linear time
• Eavesdrop on Experts: Everything is Country - Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher on Country and the role and obligations of people

What we're watching 👀

• Kuti Time: Pipis popularity creating jobs for local community
• Truth-telling and how cultural repatriation is fundamental to the reconciliation process
• Dr Mandawuy Yunupingu AC lecture, introduced by Nalini Joshi, delivered by Rowena Ball

What we're reading 📖

• The myths that hint at past disasters
• Ancient Australian Aboriginal memory tool superior to 'memory palace' learning

What we're listening to 👂

• The Uluru Statement from the Heart wins the 2021 Sydney Peace Prize
• Throwing the spotlight on First Nations fashion designers