Sailing into Country: Educator in Action

Sailing into Country: Educator in Action

David Carline, Queensland Regional Meeting I realised at last that I was an educator when I was 50. I got a job as a researcher working at the University of Queensland. We produced a little journal called The Aboriginal Child at School. What I thought everyone knew...

Aboriginal Sovereignty

David Johnson, Queensland Regional Meeting Right relationship with the land and with Aboriginal people requires we acknowledge Aboriginal Sovereignty over Australia. This is not an easy thing for many to consider. For Aboriginal people Sovereignty is, in the words of...

Going remote: working in the Kimberleys

Brian Harlech-Jones, Canberra Regional Meeting  In mid-July 2011, Marie and I arrived in Billiluna to take over as the new managers of Mindibungu Aboriginal Corporation. ‘Billiluna? Where is that?’ ask most people. It’s in the Kimberley region of Western Australia,...