28/10/2025
Exciting news — I’ve been selected as a FINALIST for the 2025 French–Australian Research & Innovation Award! 🇫🇷🇦🇺
This recognition celebrates research collaborations that connect France and Australia, and I’m proud to see our work on human evolution and ancient rock art featured among such inspiring projects.
The final round of public voting is now open until 9 November, and your support would mean a lot!
👉 Vote here: https://www.lcanews.com/.../2025-french-australian.../
Thank you to everyone who has already voted and shared. It’s been incredible to feel the support from the community. The winners will be announced at the French Embassy in Canberra on 25 November, can’t wait to celebrate! Wish me luck!
Thank you all
24/08/2025
GARG is proud to be part of the incredible initiative. Looking forward to working with all the partners on this project.
We’re proud to announce Flinders University will lead the newly funded Australian Research Council Training Centre for Advancing Archaeology in the Resources Sector, recently awarded $5 million through the Australian Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Research Program.
This innovative initiative, delivered in collaboration with The University of Queensland and Southern Cross University, will bring together Traditional Owners, resource companies, archaeologists, and cultural and heritage experts to:
✔️ train a new generation of cultural heritage professionals
✔️ create new approaches to safeguard Indigenous cultural heritage
✔️ advance sustainable, culturally-informed resource management
✔️ address the under-representation of Traditional Owners working in the cultural heritage management industry.
With support from major resource companies Rio Tinto, BHP, South32, Newmont Australia, and MMG Limited, and cultural heritage firms Terra Rosa Consulting, Australian Heritage Services and Niche Environment and Heritage, this Centre will set new benchmarks for responsible development and heritage protection.
The Centre’s three Traditional Owner Partner Organisations – the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation, Palyku-Jartayi Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC - PJAC and Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka Traditional Land Owners – will also contribute their extensive knowledge.
Centre Director and Flinders University archaeologist Professor Liam Brady says, “the tension between mining operations and Traditional Owners around the protection and management of cultural heritage has a long history in Australia and globally. We urgently need new approaches to address this situation.”
Read more here 🔗 https://bit.ly/3HqEKlX
08/08/2025
Archaeologists discovered stone tools at least a million years old on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, but exactly who made them and how they got there is unknown.
Read the full story on the ABC NEWS app: https://ab.co/45LqJHJ
