Josephine Bourne is a mainland Torres Strait Islander and currently an Indigenous Studies lecturer at Macquarie University. She is completing a PhD about a national governance framework to sustain national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in a changing world.
The benefits of collectivism in working towards Treaty
What we choose to pursue at this time will either make things harder or easier for future generations. Our decision now will either protect the existence of an ancient culture and knowledges or contribute to its complete decimation.