Aaron Wyatt is an accomplished musician, composer, conductor, researcher and assistant lecturer in Classical Music (Viola) at The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance at Monash University. A Noongar man with Yamtji and Wongi heritage, Aaron picked up the violin at the age of 5. “My love of music started early. As a kid,
Artist and Narungga man Brad Darkson has been named the winner of the 2025 John Mulvaney Fellowship, enabling vital research on First Nations’ knowledges of seaweed management. As a practicing artist of over a decade, Brad has exhibited across Australia including the Sydney Opera House, the Australian War Memorial, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, and the
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‘Before I was a researcher, I was an Aboriginal Health Worker, which for anyone unfamiliar is a mix between a nurse and a social worker,’ begins Sociologist and Social Work academic Dr Jacob Prehn, a proud Worimi man living on Palawa Country. He is the recipient of the 2024 John Mulvaney Fellowship, awarded annually to
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“Ngaya giyara Tula. Dhanayi dhalang Dharug, Burramadagal diyin ngaya,” introduces Tula Wynyard in Dharug. “My name is Tula. My ancestral language is Dharug and I’m a Burramadagal woman from the Sydney region.” “Ŋarraya marŋgithirri mathagu,” she continues in Ritharrŋu-Wägilak. “I’m learning [Ritharrŋu and Wägilak] language.” “Growing up I was always learning languages,” Tula explains. “I
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Zac Roberts is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. His PhD explores the relationship between Aboriginal and Jewish communities in Australia since 1788. Combining archive work with a wide-scale oral history project, Roberts’ research highlights the history of interactions between and types of relations formed between Aboriginal and
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A proud Pakana woman, Zoe Rimmer is currently completing her PhD on Tasmanian Aboriginal activism in cultural institutions. The main objective of Zoe’s research is to investigate and document the Aboriginal community campaign in Tasmania for the repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural material from the 1970s until the present. It also tracks the impact
Dr Carol McGregor is a Brisbane-based artist of Wathaurung (Kulin Nation) and Scottish descent and is a possum skin cloak maker, painter, printmaker and sculptor. As an artist, she seeks to adapt and embrace new technologies to reclaim and connect to cultural expression, whilst revealing and exposing hidden histories within the landscape. Dr McGregor revives
Artist awarded for reviving traditional possum skin cloaks Read More »
John was born in 1925 in Yarram in south Gippsland. His father was a teacher and before the Second World War the family moved through country Victoria, to towns such as Rainbow in the Mallee where his father was headmaster of Rainbow Higher Education School and eventually to Frankston near where he was born. In
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The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.