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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.

This episode of the HASS School Human Experience podcast features Professor Victoria Haskins who shares an intriguing family history discovery that sparked her wonderful academic journey.

Professor Victoria Haskins and Associate Professor Bill Palmer have both been awarded ARC Discovery Project grants.

The 2019 Year of Indigenous Languages bought sobering news to the attention of the world; 40% of languages are endangered and a large proportion of these are Indigenous languages.

The second edition of John Maynard’s, ‘The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe’ was launched at Glee Books on 13 September, 2019 by Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning.

The University of Newcastle's Professor of Indigenous Education and Research, John Maynard, has been selected to deliver the prestigious Annual History Lecture – an event produced by the History Council of New South Wales as part of this year’s History Week.

A digital map, touring exhibition, and inclusion of research material in the Australian National University's Indigenous Studies major are some of the many outcomes produced by researchers involved in the History of the Aboriginal Protection/Welfare Board Project (1883-1969).