Land management and rights

From ancient to modern environments in southeastern Australia: evidence from the unique natural archives of Lake George

The year 2020 marked the 200th anniversary of European settlers first encountering the ‘noble expanse of water’ of Lake George in New South Wales.

Archaeology and Natural History

This project aims to provide critical new information on the archaeology and natural history of one of the world’s largest unregulated desert river systems.

Environmental Transformations linked to Early Human Occupation in Northern Australia

How have interactions between climatic change, human activities and other disturbances over thousands of years shaped the landscapes we know today in Australia?

Networked knowledge for repatriation communities

This project worked with First Nations partner organisations, universities, government and museums to build a major digital archive of information about the theft and return of Indigenous Ancestral

Pyroherbivory and the nexus between Aboriginal fire mosaics and kangaroos

This project aims to examine the effects of traditional Aboriginal and contemporary fire management on kangaroo abundance.

The Foley Collection

The Foley Collection is a selection of digital works from a major historic archive collected over the past 45 years by Aborigi

The Aboriginal land estate in New South Wales

This project aims to investigate Aboriginal economic activity via the first extensive place-based ethnographic study of New South Wales (NSW) Aboriginal Land Council.

Aboriginal landscape transformations in south-west Australia

This project will inform present day land management strategies by assessing the extent to which the landscape at the time of European colonisation was an artefact of management practices of Indige

“Waka Ngurrkanhayngu”: Regenerating the existence of life Reducing the risk of natural and social disasters – reviving and strengthening Indigenous law, culture and governance in remote Indigenous communities

Reducing disaster risks is an urgent priority. Especially in Northern Australia substantial natural processes seriously threaten human health and life, and bear enormous environmental, social

A Model for Integrating Cultural Knowledge Systems and Western Science in the Management of Wadandi Boodja (Margaret River), Western Australia

This project demonstrates a pathway to re-embed a Wadandi Songline as a conservation corridor in a socially and ecologically fragmented landscape.