Inala Cooper is a Yawuru woman with German and Irish heritage, from Rubibi/Broome in the Kimberley in Western Australia. She grew up on Gunditjmara land in south-western Victoria and has lived on the land of the Kulin nation in Melbourne for over twenty-five years. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Drama/Contemporary Dance) and a Masters in Human Rights Law, and has long been an advocate for Indigenous rights, access to education, and social justice. Inala is a regular contributor on ABC News Breakfast and The Drum, and is also a director on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Culture Is Life, Jesuit Social Services, State Library Victoria and the Adam Briggs Foundation. Inala is currently the Director of Murrup Barak, the Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development at the University of Melbourne.
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ANU Meet the Author – Leigh Boucher & Michelle Arrow
Australian National University
Cultural Centre, 153 University Avenue, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful...
Verge 2024: Click Launch
The Alderman
134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC
In the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, 26 writers explore consonance and assonance that rattle like a chattering jaw, narratives composed of hyperlinked rabbit-holing, and stories that tick with...
Dave Witty ‘The Lost Children’s Tree’ – Words in Winter Festival
The Lost Childrens Cairn Memorial Reserve
4360 Midland Hwy, Daylesford, VIC
As part of this year’s Words in Winter festival, I will be doing a special talk. I’m telling the story of the three children who went missing in Daylesford in...
ANU Meet the Author – Leigh Boucher & Michelle Arrow
Australian National University Cultural Centre, 153 University Avenue, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaLeigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful...
Verge 2024: Click Launch
The Alderman 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VICIn the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, 26 writers explore consonance and assonance that rattle like a chattering jaw, narratives composed of hyperlinked rabbit-holing, and stories that tick with...
Dave Witty ‘The Lost Children’s Tree’ – Words in Winter Festival
The Lost Childrens Cairn Memorial Reserve 4360 Midland Hwy, Daylesford, VICAs part of this year’s Words in Winter festival, I will be doing a special talk. I’m telling the story of the three children who went missing in Daylesford in...
