ARC Training Centre for Healing Country

🌳As part of the cultural fire and monitoring project happening at Hill View Community Bushland, Zoe and Ryan will be live-streaming eco-acoustics from the bushland to participate in Soundcamp’s Reveil broadcast for Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday May 3.

🌳Reveil is a collective broadcast by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 2 May in London, the broadcast will pick up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light.

👉This link will take you to the live broadcast, along with info about the streams (once they’re live) and a chat: https://soundtent.org/reveil/ #/

👉Here are the details about the Hillview page: https://streams.soundtent.org/2026/streams/utc8_-681d7c6c-b725-49f6-b632-835d4c7a1e1d

💡Tune in for the livestream from Hillview on Sunday May 3rd from 06:23 - 06:47

🌱 Revegetation Industry Association of WA Seminar 2026! 🌱

📢 Registrations closing soon - Thursday 23rd April.

Find out more: https://www.riawa.com.au/events/upcoming

👇See the poster below for details

🌿 ARC Healing Country's PhD Student Galey Rinchen presented his Milestone 1 Seminar🌿

Galey presented his MPhil research on seed ball technology as a practical approach to restoring degraded soils and supporting the healing of Country in Western Australia. His work explores how seed balls can improve seed germination and early plant establishment in challenging sandy and alkaline soils, with projects linked to post-mining restoration and Indigenous-managed land. Through this research, Galey is contributing to restoration approaches that are practical, scalable, and grounded in care for Country, while creating opportunities for knowledge sharing with industry and community partners.

🌳ARC Healing Country's Affiliated PhD Student Heidi Mippy presented her Milestone 1 Seminar 🌳

Heidi's thesis - Korl Koorliny - Reimagining Food Production and Landscape Restoration Systems through Noongar Food and Medicine Plants, explores a fusion of Noongar Cultural Knowledge and practices for plant use with contemporary commercial bush good business activities using a Systems Thinking approach known as Theory U.

📸 Oliver Tester

🌳 ARC Centre for Healing Country, PhD student, Zoe Webber recently joined Emeritus Professor Simon Forrest and Roni Forrest for a community presentation and discussion panel at the Town of Victoria Park Kaatijiin Film Screening - Breathing Life into Boodja.

🌳 The screening was a full house with plenty of questions from the audience. Zoe is collaborating with the Town of Victoria Park and the Noongar community to monitor the outcomes of cultural burning practices at Hill View Community Bushland

🌿Healing Country Staff Spent a Week Diving Deep into Statistics! 🌿

From 9-13 February, our team attended a week-long intensive statistics course at Murdoch University delivered by Highland Statistics as part of their Australia-wide tour.

The course, designed for ecologist, focused: "Mixed-effects models and GLMM using nlme, lme4 and glmmTMB"

📢 A huge thank you to Dr Adrian Gleiss for organising the workshop and hosting Highland Statistics

📢 A big shout out to Dr Alain Zuur and Dr Elena Leno for their fantastic teaching!

🌱 Healing Country staff thoroughly enjoyed the course and walked away with valuable new skills 🌱

Left to Right: Mohammad Farzam, Elina Rittelmann-Woods, Elena Leno, Rachel Standish, David O'Shaughnessy, Alain Zuur, Hugh Coppell & Alexandre Pedrinho.

🌱 PhD Training for 2026 is underway! 🌱

The Centre has commended PhD training for 2026 with presentation sessions and lunch and learns.

Lead of Collaborative and Ethical Research Assoc. Prof Andrew Knight, provided a presentation on 'Research Outputs for Aboriginal Groups and Partner Organisations.'

Which outlined how to successfully navigate research implementation spaces to translate research into action.

For more news 👉https://archealingcountry.com.au/

🌿Healing Country Outreach Highlight! 🌿
Some wonderful feedback has come in from a recent Healing Country outreach session delivered by Postdoctoral Fellow Giancarlo Chiarenza, during the 2026 Curtin University Discover STEM Event. The activity was incredibly well received, with students discovering how fascinating seeds are and the exciting career pathways in ecology, botany and restoration.

Student comments:
"I loved the person running the class, and he was a delight"

"I found looking at the different seeds was cool and interesting I enjoyed it and I wouldn't change anything"

Inspiring to see such enthusiasm from the next generation of environmental scientists! 🔬🌱

🎉Congratulations from the ARC Training Centre for Healing Country, to the recent Indigenous graduates from Curtin's Medical School.

This highlights the importance of Indigenous representation in medicine and across all disciplines that provide opportunities for critical work to be done by mob, for mob and with mob.

From left to right: Jaaron Davis, Arkayla McPhee, Daisy Alps and Curtin Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Professor Jonathan Bullen

Gian is investigating how plant-soil relationships can drive better restoration for Balga (Xanthorrhoea preissii), an iconic species of great ecological and Indigenous significance. 🌱

🌱 ARC Centre for Healing Country had a fantastic week at ESA 2025 on Kaurna Country, sharing research, connecting with ecologists across Australia, and exploring how we can all be bold for biodiversity.

⭐ Oscar Jones presented early PhD findings in the Community-Centred Conservation symposium and took part in ECE mentoring and networking events.

⭐ Elina Rittelmann-Woods delivered her first conference talk on plant–soil interactions and carbon storage — a huge milestone.

⭐ Zoe Webber gave her first national presentation and was inspired by an incredible lineup of speakers, including Dr Phillipa McCormack.

📢 We look forward to the next ESA!

For more news 👉 https://archealingcountry.com.au/

📸 Zoe Webber & Anna Hopkins