Celebrations for NAIDOC Week at Charles Darwin University (CDU) kicked off with a victory, as First Nations students took home the trophy in the basketball final at the Indigenous Nationals games.
The CDU team went head-to-head with the University of Sydney, coming out on top with a 19-15 win.
CDU First Nations Student Support Officer Lucas Sharp said the team’s spirit and sporting skills throughout the games were “constantly inspiring”.
Research into male migration across remote communities in central Australia has shown how waterholes influence First Nations people patterns of migration.
Dr John Binda Reid, who studied First Nations migration and its connection to waterholes, believes that if we continue to deplete or poison the natural reservoirs and springs in the NT or anywhere in Australia this will continue to break cultural connections to Country and Aboriginal Identity.
A Charles Darwin University (CDU) lecturer and leading researcher into veterans lived experience post-discharge, has presented a snippet of her research at the Female Veterans and Veterans' Families Forum, in Canberra recently.
CDU’s Faculty of Health Social Work Lecturer Hannah Taino-Spick attended the Forum which is hosted by the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA).
A Charles Darwin University (CDU) researcher is one of only five academics across Australia to be chosen to attend this year’s prestigious ABC Top 5 Science media residency.
CDU’s Northern Institute Researcher, Dr Rohan Fisher has been chosen to attend the two-week media residency facilitated by ABC RN, which will see him spend time alongside the country’s best specialist journalists and broadcasters.
Construction of Charles Darwin University’s (CDU) new $25.8 million Centre for Better Health Futures is about to commence, with a ceremony held on-site celebrating the start of a new health teaching and research facility.
CDU Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman joined Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Chief Minister Natasha Fyles, Education Minister Eva Lawler, and Member for Solomon Luke Gosling to turn the first sod at the CDU Casuarina campus in Darwin, with construction expected to begin in the coming months.
