A different way of knowing the world

Volume 11 Number 1 January 12 - February 8 2015

 

Every year, the University’s Murrup Barak Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development invites the wider community to gather at the Spot Theatre to hear the Narrm Oration. 

‘Narrm’ refers to the country around Port Phillip Bay in Woi Wurring, the language of the traditional owners, the Wurindjeri people of the Kulin Nation. 

Delivered annually since 2009, the Narrm Oration is a major initiative of the Murrup Barak-Rio Tinto partnership. Now in its sixth year, the Narrm Oration profiles leading international Indigenous thinkers to provide their perspective and, in so doing, enriches our vision of the future for Indigenous Australia. 

This year, Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (above), from two tribes or iwi in New Zealand – Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou – and Pro-Vice Chancellor Maori at the University of Waikato in Hamilton New Zealand, delivered the sixth Narrm Oration on ‘Indigenous knowledges and how they help us think about the future’. 

 

Watch the 2014 Narrm Oration at http://youtu.be/h8FeUtCh-PU