Indigenous

Several of our colleagues recently attended the Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program in Melbourne. They will be presenting a Teaching and Learning forum about the ideas discussed at the Program and how COL might adopt them.

They will cover the following:

Asmi Wood: Overview and background
Ron Levy: The deliberative program and its outcomes
Anthony Hopkins: Wattle repository and class revisions
Molly Townes-O’Brien: Summing up

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The Constitutional - Asmi Wood Episode 1

Associate Professor Asmi Wood is the kind of lecturer who receives thank you cards from his students at the end of the semester. His research areas include constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, and Indigenous participation in higher education. In 'The Constitutional', inspiring ANU Law academics take retired Canberra radio host Alex Sloan for a walk around the grounds of the Australian National University, while they talk about justice, equality, discrimination, education, aspirations and anything else that matters.

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Law student undertakes ACT Supreme Court Indigenous mentoring program

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Pindan, peripheries and power: First Nations peoples, civil law and justice in the Kimberley

This launch marks a new partnership between Kimberley Community Legal Services and the ANU through which KCLS aims to substantially innovate and extend civil law legal help for Aboriginal people in the Kimberley. The hope is that this will enable and position KCLS to manifest breakthrough legal service models based on long-term relationships with clients, working from client vantage points, in furtherance of client goals.

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ALRC inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Judge Myers will speak about his work as ALRC Commissioner on the inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.