Truth-telling

Politics & Society
Book extract
‘Disrupt the blinding whiteness of business education’
First Nations businesses focus on unique and generative ways to engage with the economy. But Indigenous business education in Australia needs to catch up

Politics & Society
Book extract
‘The field of Indigenous Studies simply gets on with the job’
Indigenous Studies means becoming part of global conversations about the place of Indigenous knowledges and traditions in the world

Arts & Culture
Book extract
‘How we bring Indigenous knowledges into the academy is as important as the knowledge itself’
A new truth-telling book shines a light on the past, present and future of the University of Melbourne’s Indigenous cultural collections

Politics & Society
65,000 Years: A short history of Australian art
A new exhibition celebrating the brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, while confronting the dark heart of Australia’s colonial history, has opened at the University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art

Politics & Society
Opinion
‘What version of the past is promoted and what’s obscured?’
As the Yoorrook Walk for Truth travels through western Victoria, we reflect on the colonial pastoralists from that area who dispossessed Indigenous people while enriching our university

Politics & Society
Opinion
Why we are Walking for Truth
By partnering with the Yoorrook Justice Commission on the Walk for Truth, the University of Melbourne is re-affirming its commitment to ongoing truth-telling and justice for First Peoples in Victoria

Education
‘We have always been here’
Truth commissions in Nordic countries are addressing racism and the mistreatment of Indigenous peoples. The education sector must play an active role in truth-telling – as it must in Australia

Politics & Society
Truth-telling and re-naming is an opportunity to redefine our future
Physical education pioneer Fritz Duras had a distinguished career, but our truth-telling process uncovered another side to Duras that can’t be ignored

Politics & Society
What Canada can teach us about truth-telling and justice
Australian and Canadian universities are learning from each other as they reckon with their colonial pasts