Indigenous

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Indigenous

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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Study with us

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This course introduces students to fundamental aspects of Indigenous relationships to lands, waters and cultural sites in Australia and internationally.

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This course explores a range of important themes concerning bushfires in Australian and international environments.

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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

Decoloyarns is an online publication featuring articles developed by any number of authors, and a circle of editors led by Indigenous cultural authority and direction.

Decoloyarns are a project of The Fenner Decolonial Research and Teaching Circle (The Fenner Circle). Originally a series of articles hosted by the Fenner School, in July 2024, Decoloyarns moved to host their own website, where all articles can now be found. 

News and stories

A patchwork of spinnifex grass in a red desert environment.

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)…
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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…
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A tree in a savanna environment on Cape York Peninsula.

Can more ethical histories be written about early colonial expeditions? A new project seeks to do just that

A new project seeks to rewrite this period of history – and others – to honour the voices and experiences of Aboriginal people whose contributions to…
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