Through our shared responsibilities to the Aboriginal Lands upon which the University stands, we create a genuine sense of belonging among all students and staff. As one of Australia’s most eminent universities, we demonstrate visible leadership by fulfilling our social contract with Australia’ First Peoples.
The Learning From Country Framework
- A Learning from Country (LFC) Living Toolkit: co-designed with Aboriginal community stakeholders to identify protocols and processes to implement Aboriginal-led curriculum, pedagogies and culturally responsive practices to critically analyse, decolonise and Indigenise the curriculum. It is a dynamic, living, iterative resource that includes community, staff and student contributions in perpetual collaboration with Aboriginal community stakeholders.
- Yarning Circles facilitated by local Aboriginal Community Facilitator, Julie Welsh and our Academic Team, an innovative and successful long-term relationship built over many years. The circles are designed to challenge the dominate colonial narrative through strength-based discourses revealing and highlighting Blak Excellence. Led by mulit-generational Aboriginal voices, these circles of respect, trust and belonging keep the conversation alive and relevant in an ever changing political, economic and socio-cultural landscape.
- Aboriginal Community Speaker Training facilitated by Aboriginal Community Facilitator Julie Welsh to build local Aboriginal community speakers’ capacity and confidence in delivering complex cultural, historical, community and socio-political knowledges and skills to university staff, students and broader community members.
Experience Blak Excellence
Community Voices – “When we work together”
Kinchela Boys Home – “Carrying the Legacy”
Learning from Country in the City 