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Keep The Fire Burning! Blak, Loud And Proud., Naidoc Morning Tea Broome Campus

NAIDOC Week

This year's National NAIDOC theme celebrates the unyielding spirit of our people and communities and invites all to honour the legacies, continue to stand in solidarity and amplify the voices of First Nations people for the future.

‘Hidden, Not Forgotten: The 1980s Wa Aboriginal Land Inquiry', Sandy Toussaint

Talking Heads Seminar Series

Three years after the Kimberley Noonkanbah Dispute, and six years after introduction of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act in the NT, the Aboriginal Land Inquiry (ALI) was established by a newly elected WA State Labor Government in May 1983. Led by Paul Seaman QC, it was sometimes known as ‘The Seaman Inquiry’. The content of the Inquiry’s report based on two years state-wide consultation and research did not become legislation. Notably, the WA Aboriginal Land Inquiry took place nine years before the momentous 1992 High Court of Australia Mabo Decision and active implementation of the National Native Title …

‘Two Sides Of The Same Coin’: Reflecting On People-Centred And Place-Based Culture-Nature Conservation And Management, Suramya Bansal, Melissa Marshall, Clemens Küpper

Talking Heads Seminar Series

The Culture-Nature Journey (CNJ) program at the 2023 ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium in Sydney, Australia presented an opportunity to bring together perspectives that were inter-disciplinary, inter-organizational and inter-generational. A program was framed that showcased research and applied works that are being undertaken worldwide, with a priority given to people-centred and place-based solutions. What started as a toss of coin at the commencement of the sessions to demonstrate the inter-relations between culture and nature became an appropriate metaphor to establish the various permutations through the lens of which we explored its heritage dynamics. This presentation by the Emerging Professional, …

Research Week Finale - Developing Partnerships From The Ground Up, How Does Indigenous-Led Research Work In Practice?, Melissa Marshall, Gillian Kennedy, Lloyd Pigram, Anna Dwyer, Kathryn Thorburn, Sandra Wooltorton, Anne Poelina

Nulungu Research Week

In the words of Peter Yu: “For First Nations people the globe over, the struggle has been to hang on to four things - our identity as a people; the territorial lands and waters of our people; our language; and our culture. Any research project that seeks to improve our lot, that seeks to address our impoverishment, but that denies the centrality of these values, will be doomed to failure. My final word then is an encouragement towards partnership which enables Indigenous people to be the architects of our own futures, and to enact our collective responsibilities to people and …

Why Isn’T My Supervisor Indigenous – The Challenges Of Being A First Nations Scholar And What The Academy Can Do About Them, Juli Coffin, Anna Dwyer, Barbara Bynder

Nulungu Research Week

A panel of First Nations scholars, researchers and Nulungu staff will have a frank and fearless discussion about their experiences of working within the Academy. They will explore how Universities, and the research sector more generally, can ensure cultural safety for staff and students, and what’s required for First Nations scholars to fully flourish.

Successful Strategies For Academic And Research Impact, Jackie Stevens, Elizabeth Przywolnik

Nulungu Research Week

Academic impact and research impact are not the same thing. Join Elizabeth and Jackie to explore what the differences are, how they are measured, how to build both into your research projects – and how to make sure you don’t sacrifice one at the expense of the other.

Research Pipelines: Starting Small And Building Up To Successful Category 1 And 2 Grants, Melissa Marshall, Kate Golson, Kathryn Thorburn, Robyn Creagh, Jane Crier

Nulungu Research Week

Long standing Nulungu staff members explore research project scaffolding and how UNDA supports growing a vibrant research portfolio. Mel, Kate and Kathryn will each speak to a project that has been seeded by the UNDA Research Funding Scheme, and describe next steps in growing these projects to achieve maximum impact. Robyn and Jane will provide insights as to what funders are looking for in applications and how to pull together project proposals with maximum likelihood of success.

Reflections On Navigating Community Protocols With Awareness And Respect, Virginia Westwood, Community Collaborators

Nulungu Research Week

Indigenous communities in the Kimberley, and across Australia, hold different protocols and expectations when it comes to how outsiders (including researchers) ought to behave and engage.

Historically, researchers active in the Kimberley have not always conducted themselves in respectful ways, which can disrupt trusting relationships and diminish the research endeavour; many Indigenous people are suspicious of researchers, and for good reason.

This conversation will seek to elucidate the kinds of place-based protocols that researchers need to be mindful of, and to advise on how researchers might slow down, step carefully and engage meaningfully with Indigenous people.

Yawardani Jan-Ga – How Horses Are Writing A New Story With Aboriginal Young People In The Kimberley, Juli Coffin

Nulungu Research Week

Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is an experiential learning approach that simultaneously engages sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems to promote wellbeing outcomes. EAL is very different to office-based social and emotional wellbeing interventions and seems particularly suited to support the wellbeing of Aboriginal young people due to their flexibility, their non-confrontational non-verbal methods for feedback, and importantly, the historical ties to horses through working and living on country.

The Yawardani Jan-ga (Horses doing Healing) EAL intervention responds to the urgent needs of Aboriginal young people across the Kimberley. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the EAL intervention on the …

Yawardani Jan-Ga – How Horses Are Writing A New Story With Aboriginal Young People In The Kimberley., Juli Coffin

Talking Heads Seminar Series

Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is an experiential learning approach that simultaneously engages sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems to promote wellbeing outcomes. EAL is very different to office-based social and emotional wellbeing interventions and is particularly suited to support the wellbeing of Aboriginal young people due to its flexibility and horses non-confrontational, non-verbal, methods for feedback, and importantly, the historical ties to horses through working and living on country. The Yawardani Jan-ga (Horses helping) EAL program responds to the urgent needs of Aboriginal young people across the Kimberley. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the EAL intervention on the …

How To Access Resources And Archives Focused On Aboriginal Records, Family History And Storylines, Denien Toomath, Duane Kelly, Damien Hassan

Nulungu Research Week

This session will feature 3 x 20 min presentations about the key historical archives in the state of WA, followed by 30 mins for questions and discussion. All presenters will describe how the public, and researchers, can gain access to these materials.

Research Strategy And Growth At The University Of Notre Dame Australia, Aron Murphy, Annette Pierdziwol

Nulungu Research Week

In our opening session, we will be joined by our Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Professor Aron Murphy and Dr Annette Pierdziwol, UNDA’s Head of Academic Research Development & Innovation, to explore how the Research Strategy is being translated into action across the Faculties, our three Research Institutes and new research initiatives. The session will focus on strategic growth areas to facilitate a strong and ethical research culture.

'The Aboriginal Standards For The Conduct Of Research - Changing The Paradigm At Telethon Kids Institute', Cheryl Bridge

Talking Heads Seminar Series

The Telethon Kids Institute launched the 'Guidelines for the Standards for the Conduct of Aboriginal Health Research' in July 2022. These guidelines were developed over seven years before being launched during NAIDOC week 2022, when the theme was 'Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!'. Our Aboriginal communities' voices are at the centre of the work at Telethon Kids Institute, where the health of Aboriginal children is everybody's business. Implementing ‘The Standards’ is fundamental in challenging and changing the way research is being done in our communities. The framework it provides ensures our ways of knowing, doing, and being are at …

‘Lucy Ngarbal Marshall Oration By The Nulungu Chair Of Indigenous Studies’, Stephen Kinnane

Workshops and Presentations

In the second Lucy Ngarbal Marshall Oration, Chair of Indigenous Studies, Steve Kinnane, will explore the historical context leading up to the Crocodile Hole Meeting in 1991 at Rugan in the East Kimberley, and intervening historical arc of self-determination over the past 30 plus years. Following the 1967 referendum and the resultant 1972 Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act, Kimberley Aboriginal leaders pivoted to Canberra as they sought a regional voice beyond the colonial frame of Western Australia. These hopeful beginnings of speaking as a region beyond the often-empty promises of bilateral entanglements that characterised the Kimberley’s relationship with the nation …

‘Truth Telling Queensland Style Calculating The Lies Of Forced Removals’, Mark Copland

Talking Heads Seminar Series

To forcibly take somebody from their country is a grave step in any setting. In this presentation Mark Copland outlines the way this was done to over 18000 people in the State of Queensland. This presentation is based on over three years of archival research and gives a detailed analysis of the forced removal of Aboriginal people between 1859 and 1972 in Queensland. The reasons used for removal are interrogated and revealed to be a well constructed tissue of lies.

'Advance Australia Fair: A Heart-To-Heart Reflection Of Australia’S Nationhood Post Voice Referendum', Cherie Sibosado

Talking Heads Seminar Series

The outcome of the Voice Referendum creates an opportunity for all Australians to look within and question Australia’s nationhood and the notion of being a land of opportunity, mateship and a fair go for all. Based on anecdotal evidence gained through Cherie’s lived experience, reflections, conversations, and observations, she voices her perspective about the Uluru Statement, the Referendum campaign and outcome, the Healing Gathering; and she also seeks to explore, what needs to be done differently for Australians to share the responsibility and hope in reconciling and unifying the nation. Through observations and discussions, Voice opponents instantly transitioned back to …

Climate Changers, Tim Flannery

Workshops and Presentations

Climate Changers follows Tim Flannery’s search for leadership on climate change. Where are the leaders who will drive change? How might they succeed where others have failed? Tim poses these questions as he meets global leaders from the corridors of power and frontlines of climate change.

‘Mapping The Digital Gap In The Kimberley', Daniel Featherstone, Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Talking Heads Seminar Series

The Mapping the Digital Gap project is a longitudinal study of digital inclusion, media use and service delivery in 11 remote communities across Australia, including Kalumburu and Djarindjin in the Kimberley region. It is being undertaken through the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society as a supplementary project to the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII).

A new Closing the Gap Target 17 is aimed at closing for the digital inclusion gap between First Nations people and other Australians by 2026. The Mapping the Digital Gap project plays a critical role in tracking the scale and nature of …

'Supporting And Promoting Kimberley Educator Wellbeing.', Liz Kent

Talking Heads Seminar Series

Supporting and promoting Educator wellbeing is particularly important within the Australian rural and remote school context due to multiple challenges and potential stressors faced by Educators, such as professional and personal isolation, culture shock, and exposure to vicarious trauma. These challenges and stressors can compromise the wellbeing and mental health of Educators, which over time can lead to burnout and attrition and impact teaching quality, Educator-student relationships, as well as student learning and wellbeing.

A phenomenological methodological framework was used to understand Educators experiences as well as school psychologists’ perspectives of how to support and promote the wellbeing of Educators …

Health Research Symposium ‘Wellbeing: Journey Together’, Broome Fremantle Sydney

Workshops and Presentations

The 2023 Inaugural Health Research Symposium aims to showcase significant and potentially impactful research and/or research that demonstrates engagement and reach into the communities we serve. Together, presentations will showcase a dynamic and eclectic mix of research by researchers across career stages and across campuses. The symposium will also provide opportunities for our early career researchers and higher degree students to showcase their research.

'Lugger Life & Language', Thomas Saunders, Tom Gannon

Talking Heads Seminar Series

For nearly 100 years lugger boats were essential to the pearling industry in Western Australia, Northern Territory and in the Torres Strait.

Luggers took small crews-often of only 8 men-of many cultures, nationalities out to sea to look for pearl shell off the coast of Broome.

The majority of the crews were Aboriginal and Asian: Malay, Japanese, Koepanger, Filipino and other nationalities who spoke a variety of languages and often little English. This mix resulted in a situation that led to the development of Lugger language called Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin by linguist Komei Hosakawa (Hosakawa 1987).

We give a …

“The Kimberley – A Story Of Cultural Renaissance: Political Awakening And Economic Self-Determination”, Peter Yu

Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture

Professor Peter Yu explores the Kimberley region’s story from crumbling colonialism in the 1970s to its national political leadership over the recognition of First Nations rights in Australian law. His own journey incorporating pivotal roles - museum heritage recorder, government welfare officer, Kimberley Land Council field officer and CEO and eventually Yawuru agreement making and corporate leadership – provides a personal story board for a region that has undergone extraordinary transformation. With growing national reckoning concerning Australia’s relationship with First Nations people the Lecture examines the potential for the Kimberley to draw on its traditions of resisting colonial authority and …

‘Wanggajarli Burugun We Are Coming Home’, Dianne Appleby, Sarah Yu, Wynston Shovellor, Kevin Puertollano, Maxine Charlie

Talking Heads Seminar Series

To date, the Yawuru community has found 36 ancestors, scattered across the world, who were removed from Yawuru country during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many have been held and displayed in European museums, treated as curiosities in collections or as objects for scientific studies, often to validate racist theories of the evolution of mankind.

The Wanggajarli Burugun story has been created from mabu liyan. The experience has been curated as a journey, which matches the journey of discovery and understanding, as we uncovered the truth about what happened to our ancestors and begin to reconcile this traumatic history.

Members …

When Data Tell Their Own Story: Measuring Health System Performance Over Time, Jeanette Ward, Janice Bell

Talking Heads Seminar Series

While Australia’s current health care system can seem impossible to comprehend and navigate, one design principle holds for all sustainable health care systems. This is that the first point of call should be at the level of primary care. An effective, equitable and efficient primary care system acts early in response to need, integrates person-centred evidence-based therapeutic interventions and prevents disease progression while knowing the local context including social determinants of health and community resources. Primary care must be accessible to all. This is why the World Health Organisation advocates for significant government investments in a well-trained and geographically distributed …

Inaugural Oration Of The Chair Of Indigenous Studies “Shoulder To Shoulder; We Still Gotta Role To Play”, Anne Poelina

Workshops and Presentations

In recognition of her lifetime of achievements, the life of Lucy Ngarbal Marshall AM will be celebrated as part of the inaugural Oration of the Chair of Indigenous Studies. Honoring her contribution to research with respect for her leadership, wisdom and life of practice, the Oration reflects a journey and the lived experience of an amazing Kimberley woman. Anne Poelina’s presentation will include a short film and memoirs of an outstanding human being. A dignified wise woman, with the power to commit to memory generations of cultural knowledge and practice, Ngarbal dreamt that we would all act and work together …

National Apology Day, Kimberley Stolen Generation

Nulungu Community Events

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Strong Culture, Strong Place, Strong Families: Kalacc's Community Research Practitioners - Changing The Narrative On Aboriginal Cultural Research Practice, Vc's Research Keynote, Stephen Kinnane, Kalacc Team

Nulungu Research Week

The Strong Culture, Strong Place, Strong Families project is a collaborative community led research project developed by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC) in Partnership with the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) ANU. It is being supported by the Nulungu Research Institute. The project is funded by the National Indigenous Australian's Agency (NIAA) over three years, and aims to develop a Cultural Outcomes Impact Framework by which to enable Aboriginal community developed indicators of the evidence of cultural impact to better assist with direct investment in cultural activities and increase Aboriginal community wellbeing.

“Kimberley Right Way Research – Which Way, Now?”, Daniel Oades

Nulungu Research Week

Theme: Acquiring New Skills for a Transforming and Transformed World

Ip And Indigenous Knowledge International Law: Introduction, Shambhu Prasad Chakrabarty, Ana Penteado

Nulungu Research Week

Theme: Indigenous Knowledge and the Law

From Data Collection Methods To Communication, Holly Farley

Nulungu Research Week

Theme: Research translation/communication