A great new review is just out from several CIEHF researchers examining the development of multi-isotope isoscapes across Australia. The study highlights how combining isotope systems enhances interpretations of provenance, mobility and diet in Archaeology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us in celebrating the release of Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals by Ian McNiven. As part of the Global Encounters Seminar Series, hear directly from the author about this fantastic new publication. 28 May | 6–7pm AEST | Online Register today: lnkd.in/gaE9habf

New research co-authored by CIEHF members is calling for a fundamental shift in academic publishing. The authors call for dynamic, consent‑based citation approaches that respect First Nations authority and data sovereignty—moving beyond “one size fits all” models. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Crediting and citing Indigenous Knowledges within research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Excited to share that CIEHF Director, Distinguished Professor Sean Ulm, is featured on ABC Radio National’s The Science Show with Robyn Williams. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

6th National Indigenous Empowerment Summit 9–12 June 2026 | Pullman King George Square, Brisbane The 6th National Indigenous Empowerment Summit brings together leaders, educators, entrepreneurs and change-makers. Find out more and register at the link below! indigenousempowermentsummit.com.au

Congratulations to Professor Felecia Watkin Lui (JCU), Professor Janelle Stevenson (ANU), and Professor Alana Grech (JCU) on your recent promotions to Full Professor! We are proud and grateful to work alongside such outstanding scholars and change-makers within the CIEHF community.

Congrats to CIEHF collaborators Nyoka Hrabinsky, Jacob Wilson and Siobhan Singleton We’re thrilled to celebrate Nyoka, Jacob and Siobhan at JCU & CSIRO's Australian Tropical Herbarium for winning the 2024 JCU Research Excellence Award! Along with 6 other researchers this program runs until 2035.

CIEHF was proud sponsor of 'Submerged Landscape Archaeology' Workshop for Traditional Owners at this year’s AAA conference in Fremantle. Pictured here, AI Professor Jonathan Benjamin and AI Dr Chelsea Wiseman from Flinders University shared their research on submerged cultural landscapes.

So grateful to reconnect with members from far and wide and a privilege to do so on beautiful Gunditjmara Country in Portland, Victoria for our 2025 Symposium. Thank you again to our hosts from Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC for all that you shared with us.

We are feeling incredibly grateful and energised this week on beautiful Gunditjmara Country. Deepest thanks to GMTOAC for hosting us and for everyone for travelling from far and wide to join together again. We even managed to have the sunshine breakthrough for this lovely group shot!

Last week, Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation and CIEHF delivered a two-day Cultural Heritage Training Short Course between JCU Nguma-bada campus and Kewarra Beach, on stunning Yirrganydji Country. We look forward to seeing more of these training opportunities offered around the country in 2026.

We’re still soaking in the incredible energy from the Working on Country Masterclass, held last week in partnership with the Indigenous Education Research Centre at JCU. Thank you to everyone who made this gathering a success – and to Yirrganydji Country for putting on such stunning weather! ☀️

Missed hearing this episode yesterday? You can now listen to the third deeply thoughtful 2025 Boyer Lecture online. This engaging talk explores how the law can be a force for both inclusion and exclusion. Tune in here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2025 rates K’gari as “Good with Some Concerns.” We back Butchulla-led management to protect its values. Read more about the IUCN's listings here: worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org #Kgari #ButchullaCountry #CIEHF #CaringForCountry #IUCN2025 #WorldHeritage

ANU Research Fellow position! We're looking for someone with a PhD in palaeoecology, geography or related field, who has experience with paleoenvironmental and archaeobotanical analysis. A familiar with sedimentology or geochemistry is also an advantage. Apply now: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

We're hiring!! Applications now open! Join CIEHF at ANU as a Research Officer 🌿 Location: Canberra, ACT Part-time (4 days/week) | Applications due by 2 Nov 2025 $85,434 – $100,378 p.a. (pro rata) + 17% super Learn more & apply at ANU Jobs or follow the link here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

International Open Access Week 2025 Oct 20-26 This year’s Open Access Week theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, asks us to consider just how knowledge is created, shared, and valued — and whose voices are included in that process. www.openaccessweek.org #OAWeek #OpenAccess #KnowledgeForAll #ARC #CIEHF

Marking half way of Indigenous Business Month 2025! This year's theme, Strength Through Collaboration really reflects our values here at CIEHF. Thank you to all of our incredible Indigenous suppliers and businesses who have been on this journey with us so far. www.indigenousbusinessmonth.com.au

CIEHF members and friends! Today | SGEAS Seminar Mon 13 Oct 2025 1:30 PM AEDT Lecture Theatre 1 Dr Christopher Roos shares powerful new research including Western Apache (Ndee) cultural burning. 🔗 Zoom:https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/9840214167?pwd=b0FNa3dYeXg1WHVLZkRvZE9VRHhoZz09 Password: 074428

Today Friday 10 October 2025 3:30PM – 4:30PM AEDT Zoom link below Join us for this insightful presentation by Dr Frédérik Saltré, Senior Lecturer at UTS and Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...

🌿✨ Our spaces just got a whole lot more beautiful! We're thrilled to now have Connections—the stunning artwork by celebrated Yirrganydji artist Karen Wallace (Mundejah)—adorning the offices of our Business Operations Team at James Cook University, Nguma-bada Campus, Smithfield.

www.ilf.org.au 📚✨ Today is Indigenous Literacy Day! ✨📚 This year’s theme, “Strength in our Stories: For Now & Future Generations,” reminds us of the power of storytelling in keeping knowledge, identity, and language alive.

We are thrilled to share that Dr Vincent Backhaus, CIEHF’s Manager of Research and Training, alongside Professor Stewart Lockie and Professor Andrew Day, has been awarded an ARC Discovery grant for their groundbreaking project: “Caring for Country: Knowledge challenges to reconnecting with Country.”

🌊 CIEHF Gunditj Mirring Submerged Cultural Landscapes Workshop 🌊 CIEHF members joined Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation staff for a day long workshop this week to explore priorities for Nyamat Mirring (Sea Country). Photos at Tae Rak Aquaculture Centre 🐚

🌿 New Opportunity | Queensland Museum 🌿 Queensland Museum, is now recruiting a Principal Curator, First Nations Cultures (Indigenous Identified position). 🕒 Applications close: Tuesday 26 August 2025 📍 Location: South Brisbane, QLD 📄 Learn more and apply here: smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-QM6...

Congratulations to CIEHF Chief Investigator Prof Jason Sharples (@UNSW) on his new Nature piece calling for science together with Indigenous knowledge to tackle extreme wildfires and protect Country. Read full article here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #FireScience #IndigenousKnowledge #CIEHF

A big congratulations from all of us at CIEHF to Professor Martin Nakata on his appointment as Chair of the Northern Australia Indigenous Reference Group (IRG) The IRG advises the Albanese Government on boosting economic and social prosperity for First Nations peoples across the north.

Such great news and now this new @theconversation.com piece also explains why Murujuga’s World Heritage listing is so special. A win for Ngarda-Ngarli Custodians, 50,000+ years of care for Country, and all Australians. 🔗 theconversation.com/we-were-part... #Murujuga #UNESCO #CIEHF #DeepTime

Great news from the World Heritage Committee in France. The world’s largest sand island will now be known globally by its Traditional name—K’gari. This week the name K’gari was formally adopted in honour of the Butchulla people, who have cared for and belonged to this Country for over 60,000 years.

Dr Jacinta Walsh, a Jaru Kitja Yawuru woman & CIEHF Research Fellow, has been Highly Commended for the 2025 John Mulvaney Fellowship for her vital work on Indigenous archive access in the Kimberley. Honouring truth-telling, kinship & ancestral legacy. Congratulations! 🌿 #CIEHF #OnCountry #NAIDOC2025

News from Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation and the Ngarda-Ngarli custodians on UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Murujuga Landscape! Over 1 million petroglyphs are now recognised for their Outstanding Universal Value. We honour the generations who made this possible. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Here is The Conversation piece just out involving some of our CIEHF researchers. Definitely worth a read. theconversation.com/melting-ice-...

🌧️ New research led by Prof Michael Bird reveals ancient pollen shows intense monsoon bursts in Aus tied to Northern Hemisphere ice melt. As the Gulf Stream weakens, we could see wetter north Aus & drier East Asia. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to CIEHF AI Prof Kathryn Fitzsimmons on her ARC Future Fellowship! Her project will reveal how Australia's deserts formed—and what could reawaken them. Big data + climate models = resilience for dryland futures. 🔗 @MonashUni #CIEHF #ARCFutureFellowship Image taken on Bindal Country

Huge congrats to Centre Chief Investigator A/Prof Felecia Watkin Lui on her ARC Future Fellowship! Her project centres Torres Strait Islander voices in climate migration research—supporting resilience, health & Sea Country connection. 🌊 Image of retaining walls on Masig in Torres Strait

New research featuring Prof Sean Ulm reveals how rising seas shaped early Australian settlement. Submerged Sahul once potentially supported 500,000 people. Now, artefacts and stories are resurfacing—calling for urgent protection submerged cultural sites. 🔗 www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...

So many congratulations to my dear colleague @jojomcd.bsky.social and @ciehf.bsky.social Chief Investigator on receiving an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship for her project Pilbara Dreaming: Rock Art, Water and Heritage Futures!

Exciting week at CIEHF — our first-ever Annual Report has arrived! 🎉 A celebration of how far we’ve come, together. Grateful to all our partners and community for making this possible. 📚 Looking back, looking forward — caring for Country. Now to jump in and have a read! 🌊🌿 #CIEHF #OnCountry

Where the Water Starts 🌊🌿 CIEHF’s Dr Frédérik Saltré & Wiradjuri river guide Richard Swain led a powerful Q&A at @austmus on caring for fragile alpine environments last Saturday. Watch the trailer for this insightful new documentary here: vimeo.com/838259762 #CaringForCountry #WhereTheWaterStarts

Working on Country A powerful gathering with GBK & CIEHF on Masig in March, where we discussed climate & on Country research. Watch the video and hear from Masig PBC Chair Yessie Mosby: lnkd.in/gAviPHtW Heartfelt thanks to the Masigalgal community for hospitality and to all the GBK members & staff.

Honouring Eddie Koiki Mabo on this, Mabo Day. This year’s Oration in Gimuy marked 20 years of reflection and celebration. Great to see CIEHF’s Sean Ulm and Sonia Hope there to share the insight offered by Katie Kiss, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner

At CIEHF we are Honouring National Sorry Day — a day of reflection and commitment to healing. National Sorry Day honours the Stolen Generations and calls on all Australians to acknowledge the painful legacy of forced child removals and their continuing impact. Start a conversation. Raise awareness.

In sunny Townsville on Wulgurukaba Country today with CIEHF archaeologists (and friends of!) marking #2025NAW 🧡 Yunbenun (Magnetic Island) in the background. Grateful to be guided by Ashley from @wulgurukabawalkabouts #OnCountry #CIEHF #IndigenousFutures #Archaeology #wulgurukabawalkabouts

Join in this important global conversation on researcher wellbeing 🗓️ Thursday, 22 May | ⏰ 5:30–6:30pm AEST | 💻 Online 🔗 Register now www.eventbrite.com.au/e/researcher... AASERT Network invites you to a vital international webinar: "Researcher Wellbeing: A Global Context".

We’re hiring! 🌿 Join CIEHF at our JCU Node as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Land and Sea Management. Work on Country, blending Indigenous Knowledges & science for a better future. Apps close 22 May 2025. For full details see the link below: careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Next week is National Archaeology Week #NAW2025! Join Dr Paul Irish on Tues 20 May for “Where’s the evidence? The archaeology of Sydney’s Aboriginal history.” Hosted by ASHA. 6pm AEDT. Register: lnkd.in/ghJChhmA

We’re backing the #LifetimeOfGreatness movement to nominate the Great Barrier Reef as the first non-human recipient of @UNEP’s Lifetime Achievement Award. A living legacy, a global protector—let’s make history in 2025. 🌊💛 #SeaCountry #CaringForCountry #UNEP alifetimeofgreatness.com#project

We’re hiring! 🌿 Join CIEHF at our JCU Node as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Land and Sea Management. Work on Country, blending Indigenous Knowledges & science for a better future. Apps close 22 May 2025. For full details see the link below: careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

🌿 Don’t miss CIEHF Partner Investigator Gerry Turpin on Gardening Australia tonight! Hear his story on Country, culture & plants. Filmed at JCU’s Nguma-bada Campus, showcasing deep knowledge and care for Land and Sea Country. 📺 ABC 7:30pm | Sun 1:30pm | Stream on iView.