Dhoombak Goobgoowana A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: Truth

From the University of Melbourne:

We would like to announce the launch of the book Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne. Dhoombak Goobgoowana, meaning ‘truth-telling’ in the Woi Wurrung language of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people, illuminates the University’s problematic history of engagement with Indigenous people.

Dhoombak Goobgoowana can be translated as ‘truth telling’ in the Woi Wurrung language of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people on whose unceded lands several University of Melbourne campuses are located.

This book, the first of two volumes, is an attempt to acknowledge and publicly address the long, complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of what we now call the continent of Australia and the University of Melbourne.

It is a book about race and how it has been constructed by academics in the University. It is also about power and how academics have wielded it and justified its use against Indigenous populations, and about knowledge, especially the Indigenous knowledge that silently contributed to many early research projects and collection endeavours.

Although many things have changed, the stain of the past remains. But the University no longer wishes to look away.

To access this free ebook, please visit: Dhoombak Goobgoowana, Ross L Jones, James Waghorne, Marcia Langton — Melbourne University Publishing (mup.com.au)

Editors: Dr Ross L Jones, Dr James Waghorne and Distinguished Professor Marcia Langton AO.