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Peter Radoll

Professor Peter Radoll is inaugural Dean of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education and Research, and Director Academic and Research at the Wollotuka Institute at the University of Newcastle.

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The Importance of Space and Place

July 07, 2015 Comments

The theme of NAIDOC Week this year is, ‘We all Stand on Sacred Ground: Learn, Respect and Celebrate’. As we commemorate this week, Professor Peter Radoll reflects on the meaning of space and place for Indigenous people and the real impact the proposed forced closures of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia would have.