The National Native Title Conference 2016 'strong culture, strong country, strong future' will be co-convened with the Northern Land Council, hosted by the Larrakia people, in Darwin, NT from Wednesday 1 – Friday 3 June 2016.

Proposals for papers, panels, dialogue forums and Indigenous Talking Circles are invited for consideration by the conference convenors. Applications must be completed and returned to AIATSIS by Monday 1 March 2016.

Download the Call for Papers.

Two remote Northern Territory art centres sold over $150,000 worth of work at the recent Warlpiri Art Market Day, setting sales records for both centres.

Warnayaka artists from Lajamanu and Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu transported over a thousand spectacular canvasses and craft items to the Canberra market which were snapped up hungrily by local art connoisseurs.

Thanks to all who supported the event!

Dr Belinda Burbidge, Research Fellow  here our Native Title, Land and Water team, co-convened the 2015 pre-conference Assembly for Native Title Anthropologists held at the Australian Anthropology Conference in Melbourne recently.

The assembly provides a unique opportunity for research practitioners working in native title from around Australia to meet up and share information.

Read more the Assembley.

A bill was introduced in the Australian Parliament to amend the AIATSIS Act 1989 on Thursday 12 November, 2015. The bill provides for changes to the functions and governance of AIATSIS.

The amendments have been negotiated between the government and our Council and executive. Debate on the bill has been deferred until the next sitting of Parliament.

Learn more about the changes.

The politics of identity: who counts as Aboriginal today? is available from February 2016.

In this award-winning work Dr Bronwyn Carlson explores the complexities surrounding Aboriginal identity today. Drawing on a range of historical and research literature, interviews and surveys, The politics of identity explores Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal understandings of Aboriginality and the way these are produced and reproduced across a range of sites and contexts.

Read more about The politics of identity.

Staff members Jenny Wood and Judith Cannon had an article featured in the recent Online Currents journal. 

AIATSIS is involved in several case studies illustrating what is necessary and what is possible in the world of information retrieval. A crowd sourcing project aims to evaluate the efficiency and usefulness of employing experts as indexers.

Access the article.

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