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Professor Kate Senior wears many hats, but never did she imagine having to prepare tea and cucumber sandwiches for a …

Community members and top medical bodies across the Hunter and New England regions have joined forces in a powerful bid …

Community members and top medical bodies across the Hunter and New England regions have joined forces in a powerful bid …

Community members and top medical bodies across the Hunter and New England regions have joined forces in a powerful bid …

For proud Gamilaroi woman, Emily Mason, the path to becoming one of the country’s only Indigenous traumatology specialist surgeons has …

The University of Newcastle and our broader communities are proud to mark the 40th anniversary of the esteemed Wollotuka Institute.

Newcastle is well-known for its energetic trade unionism dating back to the 1870s, more obscure is their support for Indigenous activists fighting injustice, but all this is about to change with the digitising of the papers of the late Stan Masterton through the University of Newcastle’s Special Col

Known as ayahs, South Asian nursemaids were the mainstay of child-care for British families in India during the Raj (1757-1947), and they travelled the world, accompanying European and elite Indian families on shipboard travel along the circuits of empire. Along with their East Asian counterparts

What was this man from a remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, doing in Newcastle, New South Wales, in the late 60s and early 70s? It was this surprising discovery, Associate Professors Kate Senior and Tamara Young made in early 2020 at the University of Newcastle’s Co

Professor Victoria Haskins’ journey into archival research began with a box of diaries, letters and photographs sitting in her aunty’s garage in Woolgoolga, NSW. The discovery of these forgotten papers sparked her fascination with archival research and the histories that can be drawn out from docum

Emeritus Professor John Maynard’s reputation as a trailblazer is well-deserved so it is only fitting that this historian, who’s journey began with researching his own family’s history, is honoured in the Inaugural John Maynard Aboriginal History Lecture.

Purai member and University of Newcastle’s Law school Professor, Amy Maguire will talk about a world-first claim by Indigenous people which connects climate change impacts to human rights on Human Rights Day.