RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
Image: Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo. All rights reserved
Welcome to our guide to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources for students.
You will find Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources in your field of study by selecting your college from the navigation menu. Each college page has key resources, Victorian resources and resources for each school.
You can also learn:
“We must ... look to past wrongs and injustices, and seek to take deliberate corrective action to account for our bias and world view.”
(RMIT University Library, Responsible practice principles, 2024, p3)
Wherever possible, this guide gives preference to Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), consistent with:
Priority reform 2 of the Closing the Gap Agreement, Building the Community-Controlled Sector
This is a 'deliberate corrective action' to counter past cultural bias that has excluded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives from universities, libraries and academic publishing.
RMIT University Library acknowledges that discrimination and prejudice are expressed through language and that attitudes and cultural values are evident in the way we choose words. This library guide has interchangeably used the terms Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Indigenous and First Nations. We did not always choose the words, but rather the resource being referred to uses those words. This library guide was constructed with the core value of respect.