Nerida Blair Associate Professor to Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Research Centre

Nerida Blair (daughter of opera singer and activist Harold Blair) is appointed Associate Professor to Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Research Centre at the University of Newcastle. Blair compiles Darkinjung: Lands, Waters and Peoples (2000), and Darkinjung: Our Voices, Our Place (2003). The aim of the project is to place Indigenous voices at the centre of Darkinjung story telling and history, and thus to breathe life into the local community, further enhancing Darkinjung identity.