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Join AIATSIS on Noongar Boodja for the AIATSIS Summit 2023, co-convened with South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council.

The AIATSIS Summit provides a unique forum for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, academics, native title stakeholders, legal experts, community and cultural sectors and government to collaborate in addressing current and future challenges. As well, it offers opportunities to support and strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge and governance.

This year’s theme, Navigating the spaces in-between, continues the conversation from the Summit 22 and expands on the brilliance and value of Indigenous ways of knowing, seeing and being in the world.

The Summit program provides the opportunity to bring things from the periphery into focus, recognising that in these spaces in-between there are opportunities for innovation, risks, and complexity. The program will explore radical creativity and how we can re-imagine our future.

The theme speaks to the importance of relationships and connectivity, of bonds of trust and reciprocity; it suggests a focus on a journey and a destination and encourages time for reflection of where we have come from.