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So, she said, when it comes to conversations about race, there is an expectation that black people will continue to service white people’s needs, in ways that would never happen in other debates about equity or oppression.Īs a woman, if I was to talk about gender equity, it would be absurd to suggest I should (do so) in a way that makes men feel safe. She told the panel discussion there is a long tradition in Australia of “black people having to service white people – economically, physically, emotionally in all kinds of ways”.

She was recently awarded an Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to advance understanding of the importance of race in contemporary Indigenous public health discourse and practice. The need to “centre white people’s feelings” in conversations about race is holding back efforts urgently needed to address the impact of racism upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, according to leading Indigenous academic and researcher Dr Chelsea Bond.īond is an Aboriginal (Munanjahli) and South Sea Islander Australian and a Senior Lecturer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland.

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See also the full one-hour panel discussion on leadership, chaired by Associate Professor Gregory Phillips here (with some tweet reports at the end of this post, together with the Twitter analytics). In the story below, Marie McInerney reports on the discussion and you can also watch this interview by Croakey contributing editor Summer May Finlay with three of the panelists, Professor Alex Brown, Dr Ray Lovett and Dr Chelsea Bond. You can watch the full one-hour discussion, chaired by Professor Juli Coffin, Head of Campus and Director of the University of Notre Dame Australia in Broome, via this link. having to worry about white people’s emotional comfort when it comes to conversations about race and racism.

being regarded as suspect because of your deep links to community, and.

having to deliver worst case scenarios to individual patients and front-line communities.

being expected to speak on behalf of all Indigenous people.

In a wide-ranging discussion, they talked about the added and often unsafe burdens in their work that include: The panel featured Dr Jaquelyne Hughes, Dr Ray Lovett, Professor Alex Brown, Dr Chelsea Bond and Dr Cass Hunter.

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The discussion also revealed the added layers of personal and professional pressures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, academics and clinicians, including having to deal with racial stereotypes and slurs and systems that cause harm for their communities. It provided a rare window to the leadership of Aboriginal people in ethical research featuring community engagement – which governments are increasingly calling for – as well as the challenges to stimulate other researchers to conduct their work properly.”

A standout session at the recent 6th annual National Health and Medical Research Council symposium on Indigenous health research translation, co-hosted by the Lowitja Institute, was a panel discussion on Courageous Conversations.Īs Dr Megan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing at the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology Sydney and a Croakey contributing editor, said: