Wrapping up. Teaching has finished and marks are being finalised. Some of our best students are off to join the Teach for Australia program. For me, the highlight of the university teaching year, was when six students spoke on their experience of Indigenous studies, life and communities in the final lecture of our first year course. Diversity, intellectual confidence, commitment - quite inspiring.
Aboriginal Time. The stereotype is that Aboriginal time meanders; meetings start whenever; people turn up whenever; outcomes take forever. The reality is that Aboriginal time is always constrained. Windows of opportunity are limited for Aboriginal individuals, communities or programs. We produced a poster display for a University of Melbourne colloquium, that summarised what we’ve done over the last few years. (Check out the link at the bottom of this post.) Getting there we've had to crash through a few barriers but sometimes you don't have any choice. (Read the late Hyllus Maris' 'The Concrete Box' as an example of an enduring parable of this structural reality.)
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