Woroni Issue 1, Vol. 68. O-week, Semester 1, 2018
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life is a battle
it is two minutes to midnight
what’s hair got to do with it?
Barnaby joyce speaks to leigh sales
So why are we not panicking?
What does hair have to do with violence against women?
What it should have looked like
From YPG fighter to refugee in Northern Europe
UNION COURT BECOMES KAMBRI
RENAMING PART OF PUSH TO IMPROVE INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATION ON CAMPUS Max Koslowski News Editor
Indigenous culture to live within the social fabric of ANU and the greater Canberra community.”
After consultation with representatives from the ACT’s four Indigenous groups, it was announced on Wednesday that the redeveloped Union Court will be named Kambri.
Ngambri-Ngunnawal-Canberra Indigenous Australian elder Matilda House gifted the name to the university during the State of the University address at Llewellyn Hall.
Kambri is the Indigenous language name for Sullivans Creek, the body of water that runs through the university. It’s also the word that ‘Canberra’ is derived from.
The Indigenous Australian representatives involved included those from the Little Gudgenby River Tribal Council, Buru Ngunawal Aboriginal Corporation, King Brown Tribal Group, and the Ngarigu Currawong Clan.
“For thousands of years, Aboriginal people came together, shared stories and learnt at the places we now call ANU and Sullivans Creek,” vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt said as he received the gift.
The name was announced in a special ceremony involving Indigenous Australian dancers at Schmidt’s State of the University address on Wednesday.
The renaming comes after deputy “Kambri will be a meeting place like no vice-chancellor Marnie Hughes-Warother in the world, providing a space for rington announced last year that a
special Naming Committee, which includes undergraduate and postgraduate representatives, would reinvigorate the labels of reconstructed buildings, streets and common areas. The stated aim was to include more Indigenous Australian and female representation. As part of the initiative, late last year ANU sought advice from students and staff on what to name three new streets in the precinct, specifically seeking the names of any women who have significantly contributed to the university. In lieu of new names, the streets are currently called North Loop Road, West Loop Road and Chifley Lane. Schmidt announced the renaming as part of the university’s new Reconciliation Action Plan, which aims to increase the number of Indigenous Australians students at ANU to three per cent:
“An area we urgently need to address in the number of our staff and students who come from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. This number needs to increase,” Schmidt wrote in the foreword to the plan. Currently, only 0.95 per cent of domestic students at ANU identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. As part of the action plan, more resources will be pushed towards recognising National Reconciliation Week, and guidelines will be developed to ensure that an Acknowledgement to Country is spoken at all “important internal and external meetings”. The plan is wide-reaching: it also aims to increase the amount of Indigenous Australian material in the university curricula, and provide every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander honours student with a $10,000 scholarship. W