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84 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Framework
(Mark Linkson, Coordinator ISN: 16 May 2023) Link
Created by the Queensland Department of Education, the engagement framework is a set of principles and behaviours to be considered by departmental staff to improve their ongoing engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, students, parents, families, communities, organisations and employees.
The framework identifies key principles and behaviours that can support engagement being undertaken in an effective and culturally appropriate way. The importance of engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents, families and communities has been known about and recognised for some time by successive governments. However, many departmental staff feel ill equipped to effectively engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The framework was therefore developed to assist
departmental staff to undertake engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, students, parents, families, communities, organisations and employees.
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85 Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture
(Edited by Cat Kutay, Elyssebeth Leigh, Juliana Kaya Prpic and Lyndon Ormond-Parker; Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 3 Oct 2022)
For many millennia, Indigenous Australians have been engineering the landscape using sophisticated technological and philosophical knowledge systems in a deliberate response to changing social and environmental circumstances. These knowledge systems integrate profound understanding of country and bring together knowledge of the topography and geology of the landscape, its natural cycles and ecological systems, its hydrological systems and natural resources including fauna and flora. This enables people to manage resources sustainably and reliably, and testifies to a developed, contextualised knowledge system and to a society with agency and the capability to maintain and refine accumulated knowledge and material processes.
This book is a recognition and acknowledgement of the ingenuity of Indigenous engineering which is grounded in philosophical principles, values and practices that emphasise sustainability, reciprocity, respect, and diversity, and often presents a much- needed challenge to a Western engineering worldview.
ISN members are encouraged to submit items exploring any aspects of Indigenous science, teaching or education. As the Bulletin is not an official journal or organ of any recognised institution, we are not required to enforce any formatting, editing or reviewing regimes. We do have an Editorial Board made up of First Nations Co-Editors from across the globe who view all items before publication. If you are doing something valuable in Indigenous science, teaching or education, please consider telling your story here!
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87 Tamarra - A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country
(Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti; Hardie Grant Publishing: 2023) Link
“Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country” is a fascinating, illustrated science book that takes kids inside the life of termites through
storytelling from the Gurindji People. Did you know there are four types of termite poo? Or that a warm paste made from termite mound is used to strengthen a Gurindji baby’s body and spirit? Or that spinifex (which termites eat) is one of the strongest plants in the world?
Created as a collaboration between over 30 First Nations and non-Indigenous contributors, the story and artworks explore how termites and their mounds connect different parts of Country, from tiny Gurindji babies and their loving grandmothers, to spiky spinifex plants
The Bulletin of the Indigenous Science Network is distributed four times a year via email notification directly to members. Membership is open to all. If interested in being a part of the Network, please contact Mark Linkson, the Coordinator, via email at [email protected].
Issues distributed in March, June, September and December each year.
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89 The First Inventors - The Ground-Breaking Documentary Series That Will Rewrite Australian History.
(Paramount +: 16 May 2023) Link
The First Inventors Premieres On NITV And Network 10, Thursday 15 June At 8.30pm. The Four-Part Series Uncovers Ancient Traditional Knowledge And Insights, Which Could Help Navigate Some Of The Biggest Challenges Of Our Time. National Indigenous Television (NITV) and Network 10 will premiere a new, four- part documentary series, The First Inventors, celebrating and exploring the world’s longest surviving culture – that of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The First Inventors premieres on Thursday, 15 June at 8.30pm, with new episodes airing weekly. The co-commission, which is a first of its kind between NITV and Network 10, is presented and narrated by Logie Award-winning actor and proud Tiwi Islander man Rob Collins, who leads a team of First Nations investigators, uncovering more than 65,000 years of invention and innovation. The First Inventors is the story of how entire landscapes were
transformed, how prehistoric events were recorded as far back as the last ice age, how people navigated over extraordinary distances, and how whole societies were organised.
Image taken from Youtube accessed 25 May 2023 Link
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