A/ProfSteve Hemming

I am committed to working with First Nations, peoples and communities to achieve justice, self-determination, wellbing and healthy futures. My experience spans policy development, program management, Indigenous governance and engagement, nation building, treaty negotiation and business development. This work is long-term, collaborative, applied, transformative, theoretical, inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary.

My work with Indigenous nations began in the early 1980s as a museum curator and over four decades I have enagaged in social, cultural and political research with First Nation peoples.This experience includes a decade-long cultural research project focussing on the Ngarrindjeri nation and the importance of the Creation Law Story Ngurunderi (Creator of the River Murray with Pondi the Giant Cod) resulting in award winning films, publications and major exhibition in the SA Museum.

At the University of Technology Sydney I contribute to the development of strategic and collaborative Indigenous research programs in Australia and internationally as part of the Jumbunna Insitute for Indigenous Education and Research. I