Indigenous
Find out about the ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures are celebrated and reflected through our research and education, and opportunities that are available.
Indigenous Fellowship program
The Fellowship is open to all First Nations researchers, practitioners, community leaders, entrepreneurs and thinkers who want to engage with cross-disciplinary environmental and sustainability research, education and policy-relevant advice.
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This course introduces students to fundamental aspects of Indigenous relationships to lands, waters and cultural sites in Australia and internationally.
This course explores a range of important themes concerning bushfires in Australian and international environments.
Research and projects
ANU Fenner School ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands and to monitor the environmental outcomes of the burns.
The Mapping for Mob team works with Indigenous organisations to deliver Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software training to over 30 Indigenous professionals around Australia.
Decoloyarns
Decoloyarning: What happened to Peace? Decolonising Pacifika land and sea
The majority of the media coverage of the 2023 AUKUS submarine deal has focused on the interests of settler-colonists. So whose perspectives and…
Centring Care and Community: Decolonising a classroom changes more than just the content
The decoloyarns editorial team was thrilled when Caroline Hendy, an incoming PhD student in linguistics at the College of Asia and the Pacific,…
Yindyamarra and the Dark Emu debate: a way forward for academic scholars
What is it about Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu that is so polarising? As PhD scholars and early career researchers we feel compelled to ask this question…News and stories
A patchwork of spinifex: how we returned cultural burning to the Great Sandy Desert
Since colonisation, cultural burning in the Great Sandy Desert ended. Now the work of caring for desert country (pirra) with fire (jungku, or warlu)…
Supporting the re-emergence of cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands
ANU ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in…