Adelaide Law School Students Undertake Study Tour to Narungga Country
During the mid-semester break, students and staff from the Aboriginal Peoples and the Law course – including Anna Olijnyk, Alex Wawryk and Madeleine Perrett – took part in a three-day study tour to Narungga Country on the Yorke Peninsula.
Guided by Narungga Elder, Mr Quenten Agius, the group visited culturally significant sites, including ancient waterholes, ochre cliffs, Aboriginal burial sites and the Point Pearce mission. At each place, Mr Agius shared stories of Country, the importance of caring for land, and the ongoing impacts of colonisation.
Adelaide Law School students, with Mr Quenten Agius, and Narungga Aboriginal cultural heritage monitors for the Rex Minerals copper mine
This was the seventh collaboration between Mr Agius and the Adelaide Law School, providing students with invaluable insights into key concepts such as “connection to Country” and “land as the source of law.”
The trip was a powerful and moving learning experience, deepening students’ understanding of Indigenous knowledges and highlighting the role of law in advancing reconciliation.
The Adelaide Law School acknowledges and respects the traditional custodians of the lands on which we learn, teach and research. We recognise the Narungga people as the traditional custodians of Yorke Peninsula, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.
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