Dr Jessica Weir1 1Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia   This presentation unpicks the ‘best practice’ that was my doctoral research partnership with an alliance of traditional owner nations from along the Murray and Lower-Darling Rivers (MLDRIN). It also builds on...

Dr Stewart Williams1, Mr Rob Anders1, Dr Roger Vreugdenhil1, Prof. Jason Byrne1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia   Australian geography has been implicated in the white settler colonial project, in many ways acting as a ‘minion’ to invasion. Griffith Taylor’s...

Prof. Richie Howitt1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia   Macquarie University takes its name from a man known simultaneously as the early colony’s greatest colonial administrator, a key inspiration for Australia’s egalitarian ethos, the military strategist who authorised the Appin Massacre...

Dr Sharon McLennan1 1Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand   In her seminal work on de-colonising global citizenship Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti suggests educators need to ‘go up the river’ to the roots of global problems, to avoid perpetuating thin...

A/Prof. Haripriya Rangan1 1University Of Melbourne   In the concluding chapter of ‘The Wretched of the Earth’, Frantz Fanon exhorts his readers from the Third World to move beyond the conceits of European thinking and “reconsider the question of cerebral...