Events
Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne
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Featured events
Mar
8
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Public Lecture
Who is Country to me: Sovereign women protecting Country and culture
This webinar is the first in the Australian Centre’s 2023 Critical Public Conversations series: Country, Climate, Colonialism
The Launch of The Australian Centre’s 2023 Critical Public Conversation webinar series coincides with International Women’s Day. This webinar will be hosted by four extraordinary women - Wurundjeri Elder and a fellow of the Indigenous Knowledge Institute Professor Aunty Dianne Kerr; Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung and Ngurai Illum Wurrung dancer and educator Stacie Piper; Yorta-Yorta and Quandamooka (Noonuccal Nation) Medical doctor and Public Health scholar Dr Ngaree Blow; and Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung songwriter/composer/academic Dr Lou Bennett AM.
Drawing on their experience as Traditional Owners, the panel will explore the importance of Country and what it means to them, particularly in this climate crisis. This special event will set the scene for the Centre’s 2023 research theme: Country, Climate, Colonialism.
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Mar
29
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Public Lecture
Cultural water for cultural economies: pathways to water justice
This webinar is the second in the Australian Centre’s 2023 Critical Public Conversations series: Country, Climate, Colonialism.
In settler colonial states like Australia, the doctrine of discovery that dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of their lands also took their waters. Although land rights have been the subject of sustained law and policy focus, the original water theft of colonisation and the erroneous assumption of aqua nullius remains almost entirely unacknowledged and largely unaddressed, undermining the legitimacy of water law and governance. This legitimacy problem is intertwined with a more widespread failure of water law: to deliver ecologically sustainable water management. This presentation will highlight the work of Indigenous Peoples in the settler state of Victoria to develop new pathways to water justice, and show how their leadership has influenced the policy commitments of the settler state government in their 2022 policy document ‘Water is Life’.
ACCESSIBILITY
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TIME ZONE
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