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Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them.

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates

The critical thinking, problem-solving, and creative skills of Bachelor of Arts graduates are critical for navigating a future of challenges and careers that haven’t yet been imagined.

#RepealJRG

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Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia Thousands of years ago, adults and children left their marks on soft rock surfaces deep in this cave in GunaiKurnai Country.

Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia

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Amazing new research led by GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Madeleine Kelly, Bruno David et al.

It was an honour to participate in the official opening of the new Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation premises at Stratford this morning!

The event was a celebration of 15 years of commitment, hard work, and the vision of everyone working for and with Dawul Wuru.

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Their old people sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it's found For years, researchers have been trying to find ancient artefacts sitting on the ocean floor. Now they have brought in Indigenous rangers to help.

Their Old People sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it’s found.

Another fantastic achievement of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation collaborating with our Deep History of Sea Country project.

Congratulations @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social for leading this.

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We were part of the world heritage listing of Murujuga. Here’s why all Australians should be proud Murujuga is Australia’s 21st world heritage property, but only the second property listed exclusively for its Indigenous cultural values.

A great overview by @ciehf.bsky.social's @jojomcd.bsky.social and partners of the decades-long work of Ngarda-Ngarli to protect their Country with the inscription of the Murujuga Cultural landscape to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

theconversation.com/we-were-part...

Jacinta Walsh reviews ‘Jilya: How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology’ by Tracy Westerman here’s a crisis happening in Australia – and each year it worsens,’ writes Tracy Westerman. Aboriginal children face devastating disparities: they die at four times the rate of non-Aboriginal children...

Check-out Jacinta Walsh’s insightful review of @drtracywesterman.bsky.social‬’s ‘Jilya: How One Indigenous Woman from the Remote Pilbara Transformed Psychology’

www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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UNESCO approves World Heritage bid for rock art over emissions concerns The UNESCO has approved World Heritage status for the 50,000-year-old rock art of Murujuga, in Western Australia in Paris.

Congratulations to the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation and the whole Ngarda-Ngarli community for all their years of tireless work to achieve UNESCO World Heritage Listing for their Country!

A unanimous UNESCO vote! And what a way to end #NAIDOC Week 2025!

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Congrats to CIEHF AI Prof Kathryn Fitzsimmons on her ARC Future Fellowship! Her project will reveal how Australia's deserts formed—and what could reawaken them. Big data + climate models = resilience for dryland futures.
🔗 @MonashUni
#CIEHF #ARCFutureFellowship
Image taken on Bindal Country

Huge congrats to Centre Chief Investigator A/Prof Felecia Watkin Lui on her ARC Future Fellowship! Her project centres Torres Strait Islander voices in climate migration research—supporting resilience, health & Sea Country connection. 🌊

Image of retaining walls on Masig in Torres Strait

Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...

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Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...

humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

Many congratulations Chris to you, the team, and all the project partners!

So many congratulations to my dear colleague @jojomcd.bsky.social and @ciehf.bsky.social Chief Investigator on receiving an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship for her project Pilbara Dreaming: Rock Art, Water and Heritage Futures!

Ice Age shelter high up in the Blue Mountains reveals Aboriginal heritage from 20,000 years ago New research indicates Dargan Shelter was occupied as early as the last Ice Age and repeatedly visited during this cold period.

Ice Age shelter high up in the Blue Mountains reveals Aboriginal heritage from 20,000 years ago theconversation.com/ice-age-shel...

An exciting end of the week for us here at @ciehf.bsky.social with boxes of our very first Annual Report for 2024 arriving for distribution!

A big shout out to @teresacarrette.bsky.social and all of our members and partners for contributing to a wonderful first year of operations!

What a wonderful week on Wulgurukaba and Bindal Country this week for @ciehf.bsky.social's inaugural Working on Country Masterclass lead by @jcuofficial.bsky.social's Professor Martin Nakata.

To be welcomed to Country is to be acknowledged as family and kin to Country. That welcome protects you while you are on Country, while at the same time obligating you to respect Country.

Welcome to Country events simultaneously ensure the safety of recipients on Country while acknowledging the Traditional Owners and custodians of Country. They require an act of generosity from knowledge-holders who deliver them and an act of respect from those who receive them.

Country is not just a relationship with place, but also a measure of time, and testament to enduring systems of knowledge, resilience, and care.

It is sentient, animate and agentive. It is the source of culture, history, life, identity and belonging that links its people, animals, plants, lands, waterways and skies created by the Ancestors and managed through countless generations.

Country with a capital ‘C’, is not simply a physical entity.

Country is not the same as the country (the nation state of Australia).

Recent political, public and social media commentary often seems to misconstrue what these ceremonies are about.

The one issue that has managed to be highly visible over recent months considers the role of Welcome to Country ceremonies in Australia’s cultural fabric.

While, understandably, there has been a focus on cost-of-living pressures and the economic and security outlook in a challenging global context, pressing issues facing Indigenous Australians have been largely absent from the political discourse.

The approaching Australian Federal Election at the end of this week provides an opportunity to reflect on what the priorities of the nation should be over the next decade and beyond.

The Lifetime of Greatness Project - The Great Barrier Reef Learn why the Great Barrier Reef deserves to become the first non-human recipient of the UNEP’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Add your signature to support the nomination of the Great Barrier Reef to become the first non-human recipient of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Good morning with a wonderful sunrise from beautiful Lardil Country on Gununa / Mornington Island @jcuofficial.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social

Last chance to complete the Australian Archaeology in Profile 2025: A Survey of Working Archaeologists survey.

Closing 31 March 2025.

www.surveymonkey.com/r/profiling2...