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Going back to the future for food crops

May 29, 2024

By Published on May 29, 2024 Sciences & TechnologyGoing back to the future for food cropsDrought is the most devastating environmental stress that farmers face worldwide. With the added pressures of climate change, drought years have become less predictable, more frequent and more severe. So not only is water fundamental to producing enough food to feed the global population – predicted to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050 – so we need to increase crop yields using less water.

As the seasons change, so too does Billibellary’s expectation of his environment

May 28, 2024

By Published on May 28, 2024 Encounters of place are complex, compellingly visceral and layered. Experience, perception and relational embodiment are the scaffolds of place that set it apart from notions of space. “Places gather things in their midst … experiences and histories … languages and thoughts.” The Western preoccupation with geographical space and Aboriginal regard for the constitution of place is the point of tension that sits at the heart of Billibellary’s Walk.

For the first time, the curriculum in Australian classrooms has a focus on truth-telling

May 28, 2024

By Published on May 28, 2024 For the first time, the Australian school curriculum has been revised to focus on ‘truth-telling’. In many societies with histories of violence or injustice, telling the truth about the past is an important process for overcoming division. Truth-telling can have different meanings, but broadly, it involves processes or activities of openly sharing historical truths about past injustices and their ongoing legacies. The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for “truth-telling about our history”.

In this way, the beginning of a highly contested history of the University began

May 28, 2024

By Published on May 28, 2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of people who have died. It also includes distressing descriptions and derogatory terms for Indigenous people used in their historical context. The University of Melbourne was established in 1853, during Victoria’s colonial era, and its first leaders were also leaders of the colony. Sir Redmond Barry, regarded as the University’s founder, also founded the State Library of Victoria.

Melbourne had no place for the ‘black’ Indigenous population in the ‘white Australian race'

May 28, 2024

By Published on May 28, 2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of people who have died. It also includes distressing descriptions and derogatory terms for Indigenous people used in their historical context. In 1943, at the height of World War II, Wilfred Agar, professor of zoology, geneticist, and dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, released a blueprint for a healthy, prosperous and happy future for Australia.

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Going back to the future for food crops

As the seasons change, so too does Billibellary’s expectation of his environment

For the first time, the curriculum in Australian classrooms has a focus on truth-telling

In this way, the beginning of a highly contested history of the University began

Melbourne had no place for the ‘black’ Indigenous population in the ‘white Australian race'

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