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A surfboard covered in an ocean-scape and filled with Pasifika flowers stands up, pointing to a blue sky.

28 Mar 2023

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 interests...

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A cartoon illustration of five people who are culturally and ethnically different, holding each other in warm shoulder touches in a family-style portrait.

20 Feb 2023

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, pitched this...

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2 Dec 2022

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 of our...

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A close-up of actor John Cleese dressed in Roman papal attire, and pointing at the camera while mid-speech.

2 Nov 2022

Decoloyarning: You are not the messiah…you’re a very naughty researcher (aka some reasons to, and tips for, decolonizing your writing) »

Everything settler-colonists write, everything settler-colonists research, has an opportunity to be decolonised. That's right: there are no loopholes, no...

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A comical and simple cartoon describes the process of realising that research is a bit more complicated than just getting out there and looking at the world.

26 Sep 2022

Decoloyarning: What is this “decolonisation” about which you yarn? »

This article is a response to a piece of feedback the Decoloyarns editorial team received from a reader. They told us “you talk about decolonisation in your...

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The image is a blue kingfisher, standing on the end of a thick, broken branch. The background is blurred, but it's speckled with leafylike green.

12 Aug 2022

Call for Submissions: How to Pitch a Decoloyarn  »

Decoloyarning at Fenner is currently open for submissions. This call provides some practical support to help you best prepare a pitch.

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The image is of yellow soil. Out of the soil has grown a patch of green grasses in the outline of a loveheart.

12 Aug 2022

Decoloyarning: How to weave a Circle »

The Circle is an Indigenous- and student -led collective with a long-term goal to decolonise research and teaching at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and...

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A group of Wiradjuri cultural authorities sit and stand together outside on their lands.

29 May 2022

Decoloyarning: We are all, always working on Country »

This article by Tracey Potts provides an example of genuine effective partnership involving Local Land Services that supported Wiradjuri priorities and...

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Director of The Fenner School, Saul Cunningham stands outdoors in a suit with a short cut grey beard. The grass is green, he is holding a folder and speaking from it. Younger people are sitting in chairs - you can see the backs of their heads.

2 May 2022

Decoloyarning: thinking decolonisation together as peers, with Director Saul Cunningham »

Fenner School PhD Scholars Jenna Ridley and Rachael Gross sat down on Ngunnawal/Ngunawal and Ngambri country with the key leader here at The Fenner School:...

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An image of small yellow fungi scattered on brown earth on Ngunnawal Ngambri Land by Vicki Miller

7 Mar 2022

Decoloyarning at Fenner: How to do an Acknowledgment of Country  »

Decoloyarning is about understanding how the disciplines we love thrive in a forum where respecting Indigenous knowledges and thinking sits at the core of what...

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