Dhoombak Goobgoowana - Indigenous Oration 2024

The three editors of 'Dhoombak Goobgoowana, A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne', Professor Marcia Langton AO, Dr Ross L Jones, and Dr James Waghorne spoke at the 2024 Queen's College Indigenous Oration about the first of their two volumes, titled ‘Truth’.
The book is divided into four parts- place, human remains, settler/colonial knowledge, and Indigenous knowledge. It is a truth telling book of extraordinary power that the editors hope will inspire universities around the world to document the history of their institution’s relationship with their First Nations people, while enabling descendants of the victims and the perpetrators of harm at The University of Melbourne to take some heart from the truth finally being told.
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Professor Marcia Langton AO is the granddaughter of Yiman and Bidjara people in Queensland where she was born and raised. She is an anthropologist and geographer, and since 2000 has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, and since 2017 has also been the Associate Provost of the University.
Dr Ross L Jones is a Senior Research Fellow in the Indigenous History of the University of Melbourne Project in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Dr James Waghorne is a Wyvern (1997) and the official historian of the University of Melbourne, based in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education.