Articles by Ian Perdrisat


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Ian Perdrisat’s career and personal life merge to focus on improving the circumstances Aboriginal Australian people experience. Ian is Barkinji, Wangkamurra, and European. He has had a long and respected academic career in Indigenous education and student support. For over thirty years Ian has lived and worked in remote Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He has long advocated for local Indigenous youth ‘sustainable life’ promotion programs. He continues to promote holistic Aboriginal community driven responses to complex colonial imposed social, cultural and economic challenges. Ian has masters’ degrees in Education, Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Arts (Indigenous Social Policy). Currently Ian is a PhD (Education) candidate at the University of Newcastle for which he was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship.

Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda Journal 2022: Volume Three

Sustainable Futures, a view from Martuwarra

Under First Law, Warloongarriy Law, the law for Martuwarra, Fitzroy River, we have a law of obligation, a duty of care and love to protect Martuwarra’s right to live and flow. [...]

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