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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures
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Our vision is to work for Healthy Land and Sea Country, centred in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings and approaches and informed by cutting-edge cultural, environmental, and historical research.
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Last week, Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation and CIEHF delivered a two-day Cultural Heritage Training Short Course between JCU Nguma-bada campus and Kewarra Beach, on stunning Yirrganydji Country.

We look forward to seeing more of these training opportunities offered around the country in 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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We’re still soaking in the incredible energy from the Working on Country Masterclass, held last week in partnership with the Indigenous Education Research Centre at JCU.

Thank you to everyone who made this gathering a success – and to Yirrganydji Country for putting on such stunning weather! ☀️
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Missed hearing this episode yesterday? You can now listen to the third deeply thoughtful 2025 Boyer Lecture online.

This engaging talk explores how the law can be a force for both inclusion and exclusion.

Tune in here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
03 | Larissa Behrendt: Justice, ideas, inclusion - ABC listen
Larissa Behrendt, AO a Euahleyai/Gamillaroi woman and Distinguished Professor of Law and Inaugural Chair in Indigenous Research at the University of Technology, is passionate about the Australian cour...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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The IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2025 rates K’gari as “Good with Some Concerns.” We back Butchulla-led management to protect its values. Read more about the IUCN's listings here: worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org

#Kgari #ButchullaCountry #CIEHF #CaringForCountry #IUCN2025 #WorldHeritage
Home page | World Heritage Outlook
The IUCN World Heritage Outlook provides an independent assessment of the state of conservation of our natural heritage and its potential to be maintained in the future.
worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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ANU Research Fellow position!

We're looking for someone with a PhD in palaeoecology, geography or related field, who has experience with paleoenvironmental and archaeobotanical analysis. A familiar with sedimentology or geochemistry is also an advantage.

Apply now: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification:  Research Fellow Level BSalary package: $118,5632 – $134,507 per annum (pro-rata) plus 17% superannuationTerm: Part-time (up to 21 hours per week), Continuing (contingent Funded) This ...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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We're hiring!!
Applications now open!
Join CIEHF at ANU as a Research Officer 🌿
Location: Canberra, ACT
Part-time (4 days/week) | Applications due by 2 Nov 2025
$85,434 – $100,378 p.a. (pro rata) + 17% super

Learn more & apply at ANU Jobs
or follow the link here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Research Officer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification:  ANU Officer 5/6 (Research)Salary package: $85,434 – $100,378 per annum (pro-rata) plus 17% superannuationTerm: Part-time (4 days a week, hours negotiable), Continuing (Contingent Fund...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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International Open Access Week 2025
Oct 20-26
This year’s Open Access Week theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, asks us to consider just how knowledge is created, shared, and valued — and whose voices are included in that process.
www.openaccessweek.org
#OAWeek #OpenAccess #KnowledgeForAll #ARC #CIEHF
International Open Access Week
International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Marking half way of Indigenous Business Month 2025!

This year's theme, Strength Through Collaboration really reflects our values here at CIEHF. Thank you to all of our incredible Indigenous suppliers and businesses who have been on this journey with us so far.

www.indigenousbusinessmonth.com.au
Indigenous Business Month – Indigenous Business Month runs annually from the 1 – 31 October.
www.indigenousbusinessmonth.com.au
October 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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CIEHF members and friends!
Today | SGEAS Seminar
Mon 13 Oct 2025
1:30 PM AEDT
Lecture Theatre 1

Dr Christopher Roos shares powerful new research including Western Apache (Ndee) cultural burning.

🔗 Zoom:https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/9840214167?pwd=b0FNa3dYeXg1WHVLZkRvZE9VRHhoZz09

Password: 074428
October 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Today
Friday 10 October 2025
3:30PM – 4:30PM AEDT
Zoom link below
Join us for this insightful presentation by Dr Frédérik Saltré, Senior Lecturer at UTS and Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures.

www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...
2025: Environmental Futures Seminar - Dr Frédérik Saltré - University of Wollongong – UOW
Trait-Space divergence and the use of non-native mammals in conservation strategies
www.uow.edu.au
October 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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🌿✨ Our spaces just got a whole lot more beautiful!

We're thrilled to now have Connections—the stunning artwork by celebrated Yirrganydji artist Karen Wallace (Mundejah)—adorning the offices of our Business Operations Team at James Cook University, Nguma-bada Campus, Smithfield.
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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📚✨ Today is Indigenous Literacy Day! ✨📚

This year’s theme, “Strength in our Stories: For Now & Future Generations,” reminds us of the power of storytelling in keeping knowledge, identity, and language alive.
Indigenous Literacy Foundation | Home
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is a national charity of the Australian Book Industry, working with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities across Australia.
www.ilf.org.au
September 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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We are thrilled to share that Dr Vincent Backhaus, CIEHF’s Manager of Research and Training, alongside Professor Stewart Lockie and Professor Andrew Day, has been awarded an ARC Discovery grant for their groundbreaking project:
“Caring for Country: Knowledge challenges to reconnecting with Country.”
September 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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🌊 CIEHF Gunditj Mirring Submerged Cultural Landscapes Workshop 🌊

CIEHF members joined Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation staff for a day long workshop this week to explore priorities for Nyamat Mirring (Sea Country).

Photos at Tae Rak Aquaculture Centre 🐚
August 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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🌿 New Opportunity | Queensland Museum 🌿

Queensland Museum, is now recruiting a Principal Curator, First Nations Cultures (Indigenous Identified position).

🕒 Applications close: Tuesday 26 August 2025
📍 Location: South Brisbane, QLD
📄 Learn more and apply here: smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-QM6...
Principal Curator First Nations Cultures (Identified Australian First Nations) |   Brisbane Inner City |
Are you a passionate leader with a deep commitment to First Nations cultures? Join our Cultures & Histories program and help enrich and enliven Queensland communities. As Principal Curator First Natio...
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August 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Congratulations to CIEHF Chief Investigator Prof Jason Sharples (@UNSW) on his new Nature piece calling for science together with Indigenous knowledge to tackle extreme wildfires and protect Country.

Read full article here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#FireScience #IndigenousKnowledge #CIEHF
Why suppressing all wildfires has made today’s megafires worse
Satellites, drones and artificial-intelligence tools can improve fire management — but they must be informed by wildfire science, or we risk worsening the problem for decades.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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A big congratulations from all of us at CIEHF to Professor Martin Nakata on his appointment as Chair of the Northern Australia Indigenous Reference Group (IRG)

The IRG advises the Albanese Government on boosting economic and social prosperity for First Nations peoples across the north.
July 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Such great news and now this new @theconversation.com piece also explains why Murujuga’s World Heritage listing is so special. A win for Ngarda-Ngarli Custodians, 50,000+ years of care for Country, and all Australians.
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#Murujuga #UNESCO #CIEHF #DeepTime
We were part of the world heritage listing of Murujuga. Here’s why all Australians should be proud
Murujuga is Australia’s 21st world heritage property, but only the second property listed exclusively for its Indigenous cultural values.
https://theconversation.com/we-were-part-of-the-world-heritage-listing-of-murujuga-heres-why-all-australians-should-be-proud-261066?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawLlVr9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFzUUpVSFZrcDI0OFNsS29xAR5IuSMBpklXYLgG3SAxpzpUiTlqmsStrb80kvco1jWY4G1flDfH7XU23c6bkQ_aem_7bUOetxhfjfrqFL4p2F4bQ#Echobox=1752715641#Murujuga
July 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Great news from the World Heritage Committee in France. The world’s largest sand island will now be known globally by its Traditional name—K’gari.
This week the name K’gari was formally adopted in honour of the Butchulla people, who have cared for and belonged to this Country for over 60,000 years.
July 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Dr Jacinta Walsh, a Jaru Kitja Yawuru woman & CIEHF Research Fellow, has been Highly Commended for the 2025 John Mulvaney Fellowship for her vital work on Indigenous archive access in the Kimberley. Honouring truth-telling, kinship & ancestral legacy. Congratulations! 🌿 #CIEHF #OnCountry #NAIDOC2025
July 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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News from Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation and the Ngarda-Ngarli custodians on UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Murujuga Landscape!
Over 1 million petroglyphs are now recognised for their Outstanding Universal Value.
We honour the generations who made this possible.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
UNESCO approves World Heritage bid for rock art amid emissions concerns
The UNESCO has approved World Heritage status for the 50,000-year-old rock art of Murujuga, in Western Australia in Paris.
www.abc.net.au
July 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Here is The Conversation piece just out involving some of our CIEHF researchers. Definitely worth a read. theconversation.com/melting-ice-...
Melting ice will strengthen the monsoon in northern Australia – but cause drier conditions north of the Equator
Sediments in a lagoon near Darwin hold traces of changes to monsoonal rains over 150,000 years. Here’s what it means as Earth’s polar ice melts.
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July 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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🌧️ New research led by Prof Michael Bird reveals ancient pollen shows intense monsoon bursts in Aus tied to Northern Hemisphere ice melt. As the Gulf Stream weakens, we could see wetter north Aus & drier East Asia.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Holocene hydroclimate inferred from alkane isotope and pollen records from monsoonal northern Australia
Terrestrial proxy records of environmental change from the southern end of the coupled East Asian-IndoAustralian monsoon domain remain limited in numb…
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July 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Congrats to CIEHF AI Prof Kathryn Fitzsimmons on her ARC Future Fellowship! Her project will reveal how Australia's deserts formed—and what could reawaken them. Big data + climate models = resilience for dryland futures.
🔗 @MonashUni
#CIEHF #ARCFutureFellowship
Image taken on Bindal Country
July 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Huge congrats to Centre Chief Investigator A/Prof Felecia Watkin Lui on her ARC Future Fellowship! Her project centres Torres Strait Islander voices in climate migration research—supporting resilience, health & Sea Country connection. 🌊

Image of retaining walls on Masig in Torres Strait
July 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM