John Mulvaney Fellowship

The race to document endangered languages: Indigenous Fellowship recipient

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“Ngaya giyara Tula. Dhanayi dhalang Dharug, Burramadagal diyin ngaya,” introduces Tula 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 started …

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Fellowship supporting research into Indigenous-Jewish relations

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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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Award to support ground-breaking research into ‘shocking’ destruction of ancient Tasmanian rock art

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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 …

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Artist awarded for reviving traditional possum skin cloaks

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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 …

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Acknowledgement of Country

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.

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Acknowledgement of Country

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.