Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into infrastructure projects
Major infrastructure projects often sever connections between people and Country, but they also provide an opportunity to reconnect important stories ...
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Meet two Indigenous engineers helping to change the profession
This year’s NAIDOC week theme, Always Was, Always Will Be, recognises First Nations peoples’ long occupation of the continent and ...
This Indigenous creator built a virtual reality program to celebrate First Nations cultures
Imagine there was a way to put yourself in the shoes of an Indigenous person standing on the shores of ...
“In This Together”: What engineering can do to be more inclusive of Indigenous people
The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2020 is In This Together, and a recent panel discussion highlighted some ways to ...
How working in remote locations sparked this engineer’s passion for social justice
During his 43-year engineering career and into retirement, Bill Lawson AM has been an ally of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Drawing on thousands of years of knowledge to manage bushfires
The catastrophic bushfires that raged earlier this year sparked interest in Aboriginal fire management and the role it might play ...
An enduring Indigenous engineering project illuminates a path to a sustainable future
Budj Bim is a sophisticated and complex aquaculture system comprising weirs, dams and stone canals designed to manipulate water levels ...
Can hazard reduction burning and cultural burning protect against catastrophic bushfires?
We spoke with three experts to learn what role different types of burning can play in protecting Australia from bushfires. ...
Engineering students link GIS technology with Indigenous knowledge
“We thought of linking these in a geospatial format so that stories can be recorded within the cartographic bound of ...
“The system is broken”: Experts make the case for a more diverse engineering profession at WEC 2019
Engineering has a diversity problem. How can the profession improve diversity within its ranks, and in turn better reflect the ...
