Refreshments from 5:30pm with the lecture beginning in person or online at 6:00pm. The evening will conclude by 7pm.

First Nations health research in Australia has long been done by non-First Nations researchers about First Nations peoples rather than by community, homogenising diverse sovereign Nations leading to health policies, programs and practices that are structurally harmful. Waluwin Ngurambang, Waluwin Bagir-ngun, Waluwin Mayiny (Healthy Country, Healthy Women, Healthy People) is a landmark NHMRC Ideas Grant-funded research project that refuses this paradigm. Led entirely by a team of seven Wiradyuri women, grounded in Wiradyuri Nation Building methodology, and conducted on Wiradyuri Country, this project centres intergenerational women's knowledges as the foundation for developing a culturally grounded Wiradyuri health and wellbeing model.

This lecture explores what it means to design research from within Country, culture, and Nation sovereignty, where yindyamarra guides relational ethics, wayamiilbuwawanha shapes reflective practice, and community leadership is the architecture of the research. In doing so, the team makes the case for an overdue and irreversible shift in how First Nations health research is conceived, governed, and owned.

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