Indigenous resources
MDHS Indigenous Development
As a Faculty, we have worked collectively towards sustainable, targeted approaches to increase our Indigenous workforce and student recruitment and graduation. The Faculty’s diversity of expertise and knowledge has broadened by increasing our Indigenous academic leadership. This in turn offers a more diverse research, teaching and learning environment to inspire and enhance our PhD and graduate students’ experience.
Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
The University of Melbourne takes the approach that support for Indigenous research students should be tailored towards each student, and the Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health supports Indigenous research students by identifying the tailored support required.
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Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development
Murrup Barak's purpose is to make an enduring contribution to Indigenous Australia through the transformative impact of education and employment for Indigenous Australians, who either come to study or work at The University of Melbourne.
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Reconciliation at UniMelb
We are committed to fostering an environment in which the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their fellow Australians is characterised by a deep mutual respect, leading to positive change in our nation’s culture and capacity.
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Indigenous Development Publication
The Sharing Knowledge and Future Leaders – Indigenous Development publication outlines our Faculty's efforts to make a sustained contribution to better health, education and living standards for Indigenous Australians.
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Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS)
VAHS was established in 1973 to address the specific medical needs of Victorian Indigenous communities. The organisation has expanded steadily over past 40 years to provide a comprehensive range of medical needs.
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Indigenous-related resources
Web-based resources, major reports, key readings and University documents put together by the University of Melbourne Reconciliation Network.
Resources
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📙 Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia, Marcia Langton
An inclusive guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. A detailed introduction covers topics such as language, customs and history, followed by a directory of Indigenous tourist experiences across every state of Australia.📙 Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Anita Heiss
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. All of the contributors speak from the heart, calling for empathy, challenging stereotypes, and demanding respect.📙 The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia, Bill Gamage
After a decade of research, Gamage explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, revealing complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. Gamage rewrites Australian history, with huge implications for us today.📙 Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture, Bruce Pascoe
Pascoe puts forward an argument for the reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australia. This impeccably researched book uses evidence from the records and diaries of Australian explorers to challenge the convenient lies of colonialism.📙 Young Dark Emu: A Truer History, Bruce Pascoe
Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers.📙 Talking To My Country, Stan Grant
Direct, honest and forthright, this is a rare, special book that talks to every Australian about their country. Grant offers a personal and powerful response to racism in Australia and explores the sorrow, shame, anger and hardship of being an Indigenous man.📰 'Voices from the bush – how lockdown affects remote Indigenous communities differently', The Conversation
What does self-isolation mean when you live in one of Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities? What does social distancing mean when the average household holds 12-15 people? How do you think through viral vulnerability when people in your community already die too young and too frequently?📰 'At-risk Aboriginal women and children forgotten in crisis', Pursuit
The Australian Government needs to step up and better support Aboriginal women and children at-risk of violence amid COVID-19.📰 Further stories from Pursuit
On Pursuit, read commentary from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics, including other University experts, that focus on Indigenous knowledge, issues, achievements and opportunities. - Listen
🔊 Melbourne Poche Centre Leadership podcasts
The UniMelbPoche podcast interviews Indigenous Health and Wellbeing professionals and academics, including discussions of their experiences in their disciplines and industries, Indigenous leadership, and broader Indigenous issues both locally and globally.🔊 The Policy Shop, “Fighting for Recognition”
In this episode of the Policy Shop, New Zealand Maori constitutional lawyer, Dr Moana Jackson and Dr Shireen Morris, a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, consider questions about treaties versus constitutional recognition and ask how we might move beyond rhetoric on community engagement.🔊 Awaye! Word Up
This podcast, produced by the ABC, shares the diverse languages of black Australia from Anmatyerre to Yorta Yorta – one word at a time. In each episode, an Indigenous Australian shares a word of significance to their people, as well as their hopes for the future of Indigenous languages in Australia. - Watch
🖥️ Unimelb Narrm Orations
Watch previous Narrm orations from The University of Melbourne.📺 First Australians, SBS
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. Over 7 episodes, the series explores what unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was confronted by the British Empire.📺 National Indigenous Television (NITV), SBS
Explore documentaries, cartoons and movies from SBS’s NITV. With so much to choose from, you’re bound to find something of interest!
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Acknowledgement of Country
The University of Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which of our campuses are situated. We pay our respects to their Elders both past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who have made a contribution to the life of the University community.