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Reframing Indigenous Tertiary Education

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27 July 2025

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Batchelor Press is pleased to announce the imminent launch of a new publication by Dr Veronica Arbon, the Institute’s first Aboriginal director at a time when the organisation was first emerging as an Institute. Arlathirnda Ngurkarnda Ityirnda (Being Knowing Doing) is in fact a republishing of Arbon’s 2008 book first released by Queensland-based publisher Post Pressed. With the first edition of this book out of print for some time and Post Pressed no longer a publishing entity, Batchelor Press has stepped in to refresh the title with this second edition.

Arlathirnda Ngurkarnda Ityirnda, a title from Arbon’s Arabana language, “points to the struggles that emerge when change is made in the core knowledge-production and transmission work of Indigenous tertiary education.” The book is based on Arbon’s Ph.D thesis and draws strongly on her work at, and the example of, Batchelor Institute. Arbon is the first to admit the book’s density of ideas which she has attempted to pare back with this second edition. Part of its appeal is the work’s reliance on her Arabana worldview which is reflected in the book’s steady use of Arabana language and concepts. With a refreshed layout, this second edition introduces more visual elements to the book including a rich selection of Arbon’s majestic photographs of Arabana Country.

Details: softcover, 284pp, page size: 23 x 16cm, isbn: 9781741311167

$40 rrp: pre-orders via batchelorpress@batchelor.edu.au