Title

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Completion date

Indigenous Research Exchange

2019

2022

Partners:

Australian Bureau of Statistics, CSIRO/Data61

Project summary

Aggregator and access hub for Indigenous research—see page 70 for details.

Title

Start date

Completion date

Preserve, Strengthen, Renew: South Coast

2019

TBC

Partners

In negotiation

Project summary

Working with Indigenous communities to build practice for supporting the preservation, management of and access to cultural material—see page 93 for details.

Title

Start date

Completion date

Return of Cultural Heritage

September 2018

30 June 2020

Partners

Eight international cultural collecting institutions and 26 Australian Indigenous language organisations and groups have been identified for potential pilot projects, with an initial two pilot case studies involving six discrete collections from five language groups.

Project summary

Returning cultural material to communities from overseas institutions—see page 82 for details.

Title

Completion date

Return of Native Title Materials

30 June 2021

Partners

Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation, Robe River Kuruma Aboriginal Corporation

Project summary

This project will investigate existing efforts by Native Title Representative Bodies and Service Providers to manage and return materials collected and created during native title claim research and cultural heritage processes. Research will be conducted into the

remaining gaps, and information about best practice for the related governance, archival, infrastructure and legal issues will be shared with the sector via published papers and a conference presentation.

Title

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Completion date

Prime Minister and Cabinet—Ethics Services

05/04/2019

30/06/2021

Partners

Indigenous Affairs Group—Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (now National Indigenous Australians Agency)

Project summary

AIATSIS provides the following services and products:

• Ethics review and ad hoc advice on evaluations undertaken within the Indigenous Affairs Group
• Targeted ethics workshops on ethical evaluation including modules on best practice ways to collaborate and co-design evaluations with Indigenous Australians.

Guidance note covering ways to encourage other ethics committees to use the AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Australian Indigenous Studies as part of their ethics processes and ways to provide a consistent approach for multiple ethics committee approvals on evaluation involving Indigenous Australians.

Title

Start date

Completion date

Indigenous Youth in Governance and Political Processes

2019

2021

Partners

Macquarie Law School, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation

Project summary

This project has developed out of the scoping project Engaging Youth in Native Title (see completed projects). It will focus on supporting Indigenous corporations and organisers to effectively engage young people and plan for succession. The research will explore ways of harnessing the potential of young people and contribute to the success and sustainability of Indigenous-led organisations and processes.

Title

Start date

Completion date

PBC Survey 2019

2018

2020

Partners

National Native Title Council, CSIRO

Project summary

This project follows on from surveys of Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs) capacities and capabilities conducted by AIATSIS in 2013 and 2017.

AIATSIS, the National Native Title Council and CSIRO are jointly conducting a survey of PBCs, focused on their long-term goals, current activities and relationships, challenges and needs, and recent successes. This will be the first instalment in a longitudinal study of PBCs that will provide governments, PBCs and other players in the native title sector a sense of how PBCs of different sizes and regions are faring across time, and how their needs may be changing.

Title

Start date

Completion date

Paper and Talk: The Australian Breath of Life

1 October 2018

1 December 2019

Partners

Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD)

Project summary

This project supports Indigenous peoples to strengthen or revitalise their languages through learning how to navigate archival collections and building their linguistic and other skills to use the materials discovered to develop language resources. It also engages them in working with collecting institutions and linguists.

Title

Start date

Completion date

ArtSound FM Radio Program

10 August 2018

Ongoing

Partners

ArtSound FM, Karajarri community

Project summary

AIATSIS has partnered with ArtSound FM community radio station to produce a series of radio programs that showcase items from the AIATSIS Collection. This project will encourage public engagement with the Collection and will provide a space for Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander peoples to tell their own stories and share their connections to the Collection.

Title

Completion date

Culture and Policy in Practice

30 June 2019

Partners

N/A

Project summary

This project aims to map the relationship between culture and policymaking in practical and meaningful ways via a forum to ‘get the sector in the room’. These initial steps will be used to develop meaningful indicators to provide advice on the state of Indigenous culture and heritage that will be trialled in years 2 and 3 of the project.

Title

Completion date

AIATSIS Dictionaries Project

30 June 2020

Partners

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is the major funding partner. Each dictionary will be developed in partnership with relevant language organisations and experts.

Nineteen community partnerships have been agreed so far.

Project summary

In response to the alarming rates of language loss in Australia, the AIATSIS Foundation will support the publication of Indigenous language dictionaries. Nineteen potential dictionaries have been identified and scheduled for publication so far. See page 49 for more detail about this project.

Title

Start date

Completion date

State Library NSW ‘Waking up Languages’ 2019 Exhibition

September 2018

December 2019

Partners

Aboriginal communities in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney, and the Languages and Practitioners Reference Group

Project summary

In support of UNESCO’s 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, the State Library of New South Wales is developing a major language exhibition, ‘Waking Up Languages’,

to highlight the dynamic and resilient language communities of New South Wales and the ACT. The exhibition space aims to provide a collection of narratives that will tell the story of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales and the ACT.

Project (*partnership)

Start date

End date

Core Cultural Competency e-learning—ongoing development and rollout* (page 86)

2015

Ongoing

National Indigenous Languages Report—third national survey and report on the state of Australia’s Indigenous languages * (page 48)

2018

2019

Our Land, Our Stories School Curriculum Resources*— development and release of school curriculum resources (page 60)

2017

2019

Little Red Yellow Black Book online teacher’s resource— development of a complementary online resource (page 61)

2018

2019

Review of Guidelines for Ethical Research in Australian Indigenous Studies (GERAIS)—review and public consultation to ensure the guidelines remain at the forefront of best ethical practice (page 78)

2018

2020

Culture in Policy and Practice—developing an approach to engaging with culture and heritage in Australian policy (page 100)

2018

2020

Songlines—reviving, recording and strengthening the songs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples*

2018

Ongoing

Ngunawal language revival project*

2014

Ongoing

Restoring Dignity: Networked Knowledge for Repatriation Communities*—building a digital facility to record repatriation information worldwide

2017

2020

Hearing Histories of the Western Pilbara—investigating how public song traditions are used as tools for managing social, cultural and economic change among communities of the Pilbara*

2015

2019

Mayi Kuwayu—national longitudinal study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s health and wellbeing*

2014

Ongoing

Title

Start date

Completion date

Core Cultural Learning for Corrective Services

July 2017

November 2018

Partners

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Project summary

Develop tailored online cultural competency training for correctional officers and frontline staff working in correctional facilities. See page 87 for more details.

Title

Start date

Completion date

Preserve, Strengthen and Renew Pilot

2017

July 2018

Partners

Karajarri Traditional Lands Association, the Kiwirrkurra community (via Desert Support Services) and the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre

Project summary

A project to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to gain greater control over their information and archives. Materials from the AIATSIS archives were returned to the communities, their advice was sought on the appropriate care and management of this material, and discussions were held to better understand and document community members’ concerns and preferences about how their materials are archived, returned and accessed.

Title

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Completion date

Decision-making in Native Title

2017

2019

Partners

Taungurung Land and Waters Council

Project summary

Taungurung Clans Aboriginal Corporation and AIATSIS are working collaboratively to produce a series of decision-making guides and materials for Taungurung people to use in governance

Title

Start date

Completion date

PBC Capacity—Strategic Planning with Yanunijarra

2017

2018

Partners

Yanunijarra Aboriginal

Project summary

AIATSIS NTRU assisted the Yanunijarra Aboriginal Corporation Registered Native Title Body Corporate to prepare a strategic plan, which will accompany operational and financial plans for future funding purposes. The project included research to improve organisational capacity and capability and designing a community governance project and consultations.

Title

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Completion date

Youth Engagement in Native Title— Scoping Project

2017

2019

Partners

Australian Indigenous Governance Institute Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

Project summary

The scoping project resulted in the publication of a discussion paper What do young fellas reckon? Exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in native title. Based on its success, a larger Indigenous youth in governance project has commenced.