David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research
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2012 Indigenous Knowledge's Symposium Water Sustainability and Wildfire Mitigation Monday 16 April |
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About the SymposiumIn the Indigenous tradition of coming together to share knowledge, Dr Lewis O'Brien and the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research invite all those interested to a one day Symposium. This symposium aims to highlight Indigenous practices of effective land and natural resource management including:
The focus is on the sharing of Indigenous knowledge's but is open to all who work, theorise, study, practice in this vital area of land and natural resource management. We hope it will facilitate the beginnings of many discussions regarding how best to care for our most precious resource, our country. This symposium is supported by
UniSA Research SA Fellowship Awards and
the Australian Research Council. The Participants
Program
Note: All activities will take place in the BRADLEY FORUM,
unless noted otherwise *
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Listen to PresentationWelcome to DUCIER: Professor Peter BuckskinAssoc. Professor Irene Watson - Respecting the Integrity of Indigenous Knowledges Panel Dr Lewis 'Yerloburka' O'Brien - Aboriginal Ways of Thinking and Sustainability Professor John Boland - Rainfall influences vegetation growth - does vegetation influence rainfall? Dr Anne Poelina - Standing Together for Kandri Dr Suzi Hutchings - Re-mythologizing the divide between the city and the bush: a perspective on changes to significant tree legislation in South Australia. |
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A Kaurna Elder and Adjunct Research Fellow with DUCIER at the
University of South Australia. He previously worked as a Fitter and
Machinist/Ships Engineer, including a brief stint in Papua New Guinea,
before moving into the field of Education as a Liaison Officer for the
South Australian Education Department, Resource Worker for UniSA and
then Director of Kura Yerlo until his retirement in 1995. Uncle Lewis
has been honoured with a string of awards over the years, including a
Citizen of Humanity Award from the National Committee of Human Rights
(2009) and has been active on numerous boards and committees since the
1960s. In 2007 Uncle Lewis's autobiography, And the Clock Struck
Thirteen was published. In 2010 he was awarded an Australian Research
Council grant to explore Indigenous knowledge's in relation to water
sustainability and wildfire mitigation. Uncle Lewis has recently been
awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the education of
Indigenous people at Flinders University and his work in the Aboriginal
community in South Australia.
Adjunct professor of history in the Humanities Research Centre,
Australian National University, Canberra. He grew up in Wagga, NSW, and
has taught history at universities in Canberra, Port Moresby and
Adelaide. His book on Australian soldiers in the Great War, The Broken
Years, was 
Dr Anne Poelina is a registered nurse and traditional
midwife, with a Masters in Education, Masters of Public Health and
Tropical Medicine, Master Arts (Indigenous Social Policy), Doctor of
Philosophy, currently undertaking a second doctorate award. Anne is a
Nyikina Traditional Owner from the Mardoowarra, Lower
Fitzroy River. Her childhood was spent growing up in the Kimberley
and she has maintained a love and respect for land, law and culture
particularly in relation to creating industries that are culturally
affirming and environmentally sustainable. Her work
highlights Indigenous knowledges relating to water sustainability and
wildfire mitigation and other key environmental/land management issues.
Anne was a finalist in the WA Rural Woman of the Year 2010, 2011 Peter
Cullen Water Leadership Award and is a signatory to the Redstone
Statement that she helped draft at the 1st International Summit on
Indigenous Environmental Philosophy in 2010. She is also a
member of the Expert Working Group on Indigenous Science, Steering
Committee Member to the Australian Heritage Council for Indigenous
Heritage and Advisory Panel Member Resource Network for Linguistic
Diversity. See Dr Poelina work on 
Assoc. Professor Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald and
Meintangk peoples of the Coorong and the south east of South Australia.
Irene has worked as a legal practitioner and an academic and has taught
in all three South Australian universities. She has worked
internationally at the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations,
having extensive experience working on questions of international law
and Aboriginal peoples. Irene is currently an academic with the
University of South Australia 
An expert in environmental modelling, specialising in time
series and statistical modelling of climate variables and modelling
systems under uncertainty. He, along with colleagues, is present or past
holder of eight ARC grants. One special topic of his research is on the
stochastic modelling of climate variables and their impact on systems,
in highly ranked journals like Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy.
He is Associate Editor of Energy Meteorology for Renewable Energy
journal, and Director of Solar Assessment and Climate for the
International Solar Energy Society. Prof Boland has extensive experience
in using the Ecological Footprint (EF) environmental indicator to both
assess present impacts and also assess possible interventions to lower
the EF. He has led teams that estimated the EF of the state of South
Australia, the Adelaide City Council area and the Lochiel Park Green
Village in Adelaide's northeast.
Dr Suzi Hutchings is a Central Arrernte woman. She is a Research Fellow,
Course Co-ordinator and Lecturer at the David Unaipon College of
Indigenous Education and Research at the University of South Australia.
She is also a consultant social anthropologist who has been involved in
the arena of native title for over 10 years,