Curtin celebrates NAIDOC Week
Curtin University of Technology will celebrate NAIDOC Week with a host of events on its Bentley Campus this week.
By Jarrad Long | Campus and community; Culture, language and Indigenous | Leave a commentCAS
Message sticks, NAIDOC Week 2009
In a touching gesture, guests at this year’s NAIDOC Week celebration were given detailed message sticks designed and created by youth of the Banksia Hill and Rangeview Remand Centres.
By Jarrad Long | Campus and community; Culture, language and IndigenousCurtin delivering on its Reconciliation Action Plan
Curtin University of Technology has achieved many of the aims set out in its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) a year since its launch.
By Ann Marie Lim | Campus and community2009 Rob Riley Memorial Lecture – Celebration or Commiseration: Post Apology Blues
The 2009 Rob Riley Memorial Lecture, Celebration or Commiseration: Post Apology Blues, was delivered this year by Dr Jackie Huggins AM.
By Jarrad Long | Campus and community; Culture, language and Indigenous | Leave a commentCurtin academic short-listed for national book award
Darren Garvey, a lecturer at Curtin University of Technology’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies, has been short-listed for the 2008 Stanner Award.
By Ann Marie Lim | Campus and community; Culture, language and IndigenousCurtin’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies celebrates 25 years
Western Australia’s longest running Aboriginal School celebrated 25 years of Indigenous education with a special ball last week.
By Ann Marie Lim | Campus and community; Culture, language and IndigenousCurtin becomes the first university in Australia to launch Reconciliation Action Plan
Many Curtin staff, students and members of the public were on hand as Curtin became the first Australian university to launch their own Reconciliation Action Plan recently.
By Jarrad Long | Campus and community; Culture, language and Indigenous | Leave a commentIndigenous psychologist’s book takes unique approach
One of Australia’s first Indigenous male psychologist’s, Darren Garvey, launched his book focusing on the relationship between Indigenous Australian people and psychology at Curtin University of Technology’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS) recently.
By Ann Marie Lim | Campus and community; Culture, language and IndigenousCurtin students questioning their identity
Seventeen Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS) students have questioned their identity and the representation of Indigenous people in society through a photography project that opened recently at the John Curtin Gallery.
By Ann Marie Lim | Campus and community; Culture, language and Indigenous“Who do you think we are” Artists turn the camera on themselves
Indigenous students from Curtin University’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS) have turned the camera on themselves for an innovative and insightful photographic exhibition recently opened at the John Curtin Gallery.
By Monique Billstein | Campus and community; The arts and creative industries