Ms Vanessa Cavanagh1 1University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia   There is a long relationship between Aboriginal people, fire and Country. In Australia this relationship supported sustainable livelihoods for thousands of generations. European invasion resulted in Aboriginal people being displaced from...

Mrs Lana D. Hartwig1,2, Dr Sue Jackson1, Dr Natalie Osborne2 1Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia 2School of Environment & Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia   In Australia, territories have been returned to First Nations peoples’ ownership and/or...

Dr Brad Coombes1 1University of Auckland   Those who pursue Indigenous resurgence in cities often encounter vexatious counter-claims about authenticity. Multiply disenfranchised, urban Maori contest claims against their legitimacy, but they also engage in alliance building, cross-cultural and intergenerational learning....

Ms Corrinne Sullivan1 1Western Sydney University   The emergent field of transgender geography centers the specificity of transgender experience in space and place building a strong foundation for empirical and theoretical scholarship situated in the embodied experiences of trans people,...

Dr Bryan Boruff1, Professor Andreas  Neef2, Mrs Sochanny HAK2, Dr Siphat  Touch3, Dr Chanrith Ngin2, Vidushi Patel1 1The University Of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, 2The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3Ministry of Rural Development, Phnom Penh   , Cambodia  ...

Mr Andrew Deuchar1 1University Of Melbourne   This paper examines the ways educated yet unemployed male migrants in north India perform identities so as to contend their marginality. While other studies have generated important insights into the performativity of migrants’...

Ms Lauren Tynan1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia   ‘Thesis as kin’ derives from my own Aboriginal ontological translation of the English (originally Latin) word ‘thesis’. From this understanding ‘thesis’ is broken into two parts, ‘the’ ‘sis’, revealing the short form...

A/Prof. Yvonne Underhill-Sem1, A/Prof Anita Lacey2 1University Of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia   There has been a recent upsurge in attention given to marketplaces in countries as diverse as Liberia and Papua New Guinea. Mostly...

Ms Julie Fielder1 1University Of Tasmania, Sandy Bay , Australia   Fungi affect all of us, yet they are cryptic in the extreme. Environmental sampling regimes using a new technology, high throughput DNA sequencing, were trialled to identify fungal communities,...

Ms Josephine Potter-Craven1, Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick1, Dr Phillip Bell1 1University Of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia   Introduced vespid wasps (Vespula germanica and V. vulgaris) are highly efficient predators of native invertebrates. They have the potential to reduce populations of threatened...