Uniquely Australian Foods

Come and taste with us!! We are looking for beverage consumers in Brisbane for a (paid) taste testing session next week. Please apply....
https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cCvsQGrufytDe0S?fbclid=IwY2xjawOAyHhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUQ1lWZGVmc2J4T1lXYUR3c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHosynlVEtYqfHFccUDgBBp2q-yRYZNCzoZzYFYi_L6VZ1ktb5O0ZeC-X7a-9_aem_4dAjv-DIv0fKFcQZBhRDdQ

Our team are looking for local Brisbane consumers to participate in a paid tropical fruit tasting at our sensory facility in Indooroopilly. If you're interested, please complete the eligibility survey: https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0MnL1NtPZJLtADI
PLEASE SHARE!! QAAFI Student Association Michael Berkman - Greens MP for Maiwar

Join us at the next People, Plants and the Law online lecture 'Reconsidering Japan’s Plant Patent Movement: National Histories, Colonial Legacies, and Transpacific Dynamics' with Kjell Ericson from Kyoto University.

🗓️ Tuesday 4 April
🕙 2:30-3:30pm (AEST)
📍 Zoom
Register here: https://bit.ly/PPL-KE

A movement calling for plants to be treated as patentable inventions emerged in 1970s Japan. Among the loudest proponents of reform were people who had long engaged in the breeding and propagation of fruits and flowers, in certain cases far beyond Japan’s post-1945 borders. My presentation contextualizes the activities of the plant patent movement these breeders and propagators joined.

Although United States plant patent precedents loomed large in Japanese debates, the issue was not simply one of borrowing existing legal frameworks. Rather, ideas of plant patenting were enmeshed in complex histories of migration, settler colonialism, and agricultural improvement. The implementation of a non-patent based Japanese plant variety protection system split opinion within the plant patent movement and contributed to its breakup by the early 1980s. Even so, several of the movement’s former members later became involved in a widely publicized dispute over the patentability of a fruit tree: a peach variety with roots in colonial-era Korea. In tracing Japan’s plant patent movement alongside plants and people in motion, this presentation reconsiders issues of ownership and state power beyond nationally framed histories of plant variety protection alone.

Join us for the next People, Plants and the Law online lecture presented by Dr Vandana Shiva from Navdanya International. We are incredibly excited to have Dr. Vandana Shiva speak to us about, '35 years in defence of Seed Freedom.' Head to the link below for more details and to register your attendance. We look forward to seeing you there.

🗓️ Tuesday 7 March
🕙 2:30-3:30pm (AEST)
📍 Zoom

Register here: https://bit.ly/PPL-VS

As 2023 gets under way, we are back to business showing off our amazing Indigenous partners with Nyanda Cultural Tours!

Nyanda Cultural Tours provides authentic Aboriginal experiences at the picturesque Nudgee Waterholes just a short drive north of Brisbane. Nyanda are dedicated to connecting a wider audience to the richness of Aboriginal culture and provide a variety of experiences as part of this valuable and worthwhile journey.

As part of the centre we have been privileged enough to experience what Nyanda Cultural Tours has to offer and can't recommend it enough to everyone! See their instagram, Facebook and website for more details on their experiences available. We are so lucky to work with such an important and amazing partner!

So exciting to see one of our amazing projects featured in The Australian this week!

Some of our incredible researchers are working to produce a soft drink using Kakadu Plum to reduce consumption rates of high sugar beverages in Indigenous communities. Have a look on our website at the link below for more details on the exciting work taking place in our centre alongside our wonderful Indigenous partners including Kiril Park Wild Harvest (pictured here)!

https://uniquelyaustralianfoods.org/2022/11/01/sweetening-the-deal-without-the-sugar/

Insects have always been part of some culture’s diets, however lately they’re popping up on Western menus like cricket chips. What are the pros and cons of insects dietarily going mainstream?

Dr Sandra Milena Olarte Mantilla of UQ’s ARC Uniquely Australian Foods joined 4ZZZ's Eliot and Toni to chat about Insects as an alternative food source. LISTEN HERE>> https://bit.ly/3VqlVBB

Thank you to for treating some of our staff and students to an amazing day learning about Aboriginal culture and history, along with the chance to learn about and taste so many delicious bush foods! Make sure you visit their instagram and website to enjoy this experience for yourself! We can't recommend it enough.

We are very lucky to be hosting Dr Jonathan Mabry, an anthropologist and archaeologist from the University of Arizona Southwest Center and Desert Laboratory for two public lectures and a seminar and roundtable concerning Traditional Foods as Intangible Heritage and Economic Assets.

Please visit the following links for more details, zoom links, and how to attend the public lectures and roundtables. We look forward to you joining us for these exciting events!

Public lectures: https://uniquelyaustralianfoods.org/event/native-plants-traditional-foodways-as-intangible-heritage-economic-resource-public-lectures/

Roundtable: https://uniquelyaustralianfoods.org/event/traditional-foods-as-intangible-heritage-and-economic-assets-seminar-and-roundtable/

Photo credit to Chef Chris Jordan.

And for the third installement in our partner profiling series, we would like to introduce everyone to another amazing partner of ours, Twin Lakes Cultural Park .

Twin Lakes Cultural Park is an Aboriginal business located near Beagle Bay, north of Broome, WA. Twin Lakes was born from a business partnership between Bruno Dann and Marion Louise Manson who have been working together for more than a decade to bring Nyul Nyul country back to life.

Twin Lakes harvests a variety of traditional Nyul Nyul bush foods including Gubinge (also known as Kakadu plum). Additionally their crops are tended to using traditional fire and land management practices. Twin Lakes offers wonderful and immersive Cultural and bush food tours, make sure you check out their website and socials for more information!