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.

In the first of a four-part webinar series centred on how family history guides and informs research and creative work, Professor Victoria Haskins spoke with Ms Kath Apma Travis Penangke.

Purai’s joint Directors, Emeritus Professor John Maynard and Professor Victoria Haskins, were elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities late last year.

Cara Cross has won best publication for her article ‘Our Country, Our Healer. Aboriginal Apothecaries of Burning Mountain’ during the inaugural Higher Degrees by Research Excellence Awards ceremony in December.

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.

In a special NAIDOC Week lecture, on Tuesday 10 November 2020, Professor John Maynard reflected upon the longevity of Aboriginal connection to the Australian continent.

As part of the fourth series of the Melbourne School of Discontent’s Black Fire Lectures Professor John Maynard talks about the important role his grandfather played in the fight for liberty and justice as one of the founding members of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association.

Professor Maynard didn’t set foot in a university until he was 40 years old.

A new research project will bring to life the experiences and histories of the world’s first travelling global domestic workers, the Indian Ayahs and the Chinese Amahs who were employed by colonial families during the period of British colonialism.

This year Australia was set to observe the 250th anniversary of Cook and the arrival of the Endeavour in 1770 but the pandemic has disrupted this anniversary moment.

The Australian Boxing community has been mourning the recent death of the great Hector Thompson.

The Australian nation will be torn between celebration and mourning today on the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s landing at Kamay or Botony Bay on the shores of the Gweagal Clan of the Dharawal Nation.