Category: Traditional knowledge
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Allyship is about accountability
Mel Parker Proud Yorta Yorta woman Associate Professor Summer May Finlay, PHAA Vice President (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) facilitated a webinar on 3 June to mark National Reconciliation Week. It featured guest speakers Dr Stephen Harfield, a Narungga and Ngarrindjeri man and UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health researcher,…
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In the settler colonial state, how do we incorporate decolonisation into curriculum meaningfully and successfully?
Shayal Prasad and Penelope Smith with Gem Allinson, Holly Donaldson, Dr Kath Francis, Isabelle Haklar, Angela Semanda, and Kesang Thrinlek In the following piece, we use the terms First Nation Australians, Indigenous People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander as per the PHAA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guide to…
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Food sovereignty vital for First Nations Australians’ economic security, parliamentary inquiry shows
Dr Alana Gall Prior to invasion, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (hereafter First Nations peoples) had an uninterrupted, deep, and interconnected relationship to their lands, waterways, and seas that ensured optimum health, and cultural, spiritual, social, and emotional wellbeing. For thousands of years, advanced agriculture and aquacultural techniques supplied…
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New global treaty to combat ‘biopiracy’ of traditional knowledge
Miri (Margaret) Raven, Alana Gall, Bibi Barba, Daniel Robinson Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge. So-called “biopiracy”, in which companies lift ideas from traditional knowledge and patent…
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allies start with the basics; correct terminology.
Dr Summer May Finlay If you can’t get the simple things right, how can we trust you to get the big stuff right? That has always been my attitude when it comes to using the correct terminology when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It should be…