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The Australian Centre fosters world-leading research on the settler state, its culture, institutions, sovereignty and identities across several different disciplines, including history, sociology, literature, politics, visual arts and anthropology.
About The Australian Centre
The Australian Centre aims to foster a critical examination of Australian society, culture and history, with an interdisciplinary focus on settler colonialism and its institutions.
The Centre offers a rich program of research and activity. Our program is shaped by a series of provocations that consider how Australia’s founding as a settler colony informs our capacity to engage with the central challenges of our time.
An important part of our work is the education we provide to individuals and organisations in preparing for treaty negotiations.
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Explore what we do
The Centre offers a rich program of research and activity that includes research, events and critical conversations, education program and partnerships and projects and work closely with industry, government, NGOs, and community organisations.
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Critical public conversations
The Australian Centre's hugely popular Critical Public Conversations (CPC) series is the Centre's flagship public event offering.
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Graduate research
The Australian Centre supports graduate research work in Indigenous settler relations.
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Treaty education
The Australian Centre's Treaty Education explores how treaties function in relations between Indigenous peoples and contemporary settler societies.
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Research
Our objective is to elevate the expertise and influence of the University of Melbourne researchers through research, research training, specialised graduate education and meaningful critical public discourse.
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Acknowledgement of Country
The Australian Centre is located at the University of Melbourne, Parkville campus, on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung land. We acknowledge Country and the people belonging to Country, the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Traditional Owners, and we value our continuing relationship with you and your on-going care for Country. We thank the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Cultural Heritage Corporation for your generous and ongoing contributions to the Australian Centre.
We also acknowledge that the University of Melbourne has campuses on Country of other First Nation groups, and we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Parkville, Southbank, Werribee and Burnley campuses, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong/Boon Wurrung peoples; the Yorta Yorta Nations, whose Country the Shepparton and Dookie campuses are located, and the Dja Dja Wurrung Nations, Melbourne University’s Creswick campus location.
The Australia Centre acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and First Nations peoples whose work, lives and Country intersect with ours. We acknowledge that invasion and colonisation has caused harm that is on-going to First Peoples.