Sonia Smallacombe

With a robust background in education, notably at Charles Darwin University, I excel in curriculum development and public speaking, serving diverse communities with a focus on Indigenous students. My achievements include leading significant educational projects and enhancing digital literacy across various learning environments.

• Australian Defence Force Cadets Indigenous Participation Project, 2004
• Review of Indigenous Education Consultative Bodies and Indigenous Support Units, 2002
• Development of ATSIC’s negotiating position with State and Territory Governments on Assistance to Family Reunion Services, 1998
• Access to Information and Records by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, 1996

• Terms such as 'desert' and 'wilderness' are not value neutral., The Living Desert: A public forum on Knowledge, Community and the Desert, Alice Springs, 11/04
• No Picture-Taking, Video Recording, Audio Recording, Sketching, and Note-Taking, Indigenous Knowledge and Bioprospecting Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 04/04
• Think Global, Act Local: Protecting the traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, Desert Knowledge CRC Workshop, Alice Springs, 10/03
• Speaking Positions on Indigenous Violence, Australian Women’s Studies Association, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 07/03
• Racism and Intellectual Property Rights: Protecting the Rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Regional Meeting for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Sydney, 02/01

Nationality: Australian

• Climate Change in the Pacific: A Matter of Survival, Indigenous Affairs, 1-2/08
• Libraries and Knowledge Centres: Implementing Public Library Services in remote Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory, Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 38, 3, 216-231, 09/07
• Speaking positions on Indigenous Violence, Hecate, 30, 1, 2004
• A Review of Mabo: Life of an Island Man, The Contemporary Pacific, 12, 1, Spring, 2000
• On Display for its Aesthetic Beauty: How Western Institutions Fabricate Knowledge about Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ivinson, D, Patton, P, Sanders, W, 1999, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne
• Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Historical Association Bulletin, No. 86, 06/98
• Accessing Archives: Contesting the Gatekeepers, Indigenous Law Bulletin, 12/97
• Review of Fighters from the Fringe, Australian Journal of Political Science, 1996
• Aboriginal Women as offenders and victims: the case of Victoria, Michael Mackay, Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 05/96
• Oral Narrative of the Stolen Generation, UTS Review, 05/96

• The Living Desert: A public forum on Knowledge, Community and the Desert, Alice Springs, 11/04
• Indigenous Knowledge and Bioprospecting Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 04/04
• Desert Knowledge CRC Workshop, Alice Springs, 10/03
• Australian Women’s Studies Association, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 07/03
• World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, South Africa, 09/01
• Indigenous Peoples Millennium Conference, Panama City, Panama, 05/01
• Indigenous Peoples and Racism, Regional Meeting for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Sydney, 02/01
• UNCTAD Expert Meeting on Systems and National Experiences for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices, Geneva, 11/00
• Latin America-Caribbean Regional Seminar of Experts on Economic, Social and Legal Measures to Combat Racism with Reference to Vulnerable Groups, Santiago, Chile, 10/00
• Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 5) on the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nairobi, 05/00

• International and national issues on Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights
• Indigenous peoples and self-determination
• Contemporary issues regarding Australia's Indigenous peoples
• Injustices of past colonial practices affecting Indigenous peoples

• Scoping Indigenous Intellectual Property Issues, Desert Knowledge CRC, 2004-05
• Recording Oral Histories of Aboriginal people, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra and the University of Melbourne