Appendix B: Partnerships

Strategic partnerships

These are high-level agreements for mutual benefit, generally formalised in an MoU.

New strategic partnerships

1. Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
2. Biennale of Sydney
3. National Institute of Indigenous People (INPI), Mexico
4. University of Queensland

Ongoing strategic partnerships

1. Australian National University
2. University of Sydney MoU
3. Te Papa
4. Parliamentary Friends
5. Pitt Rivers Museum (The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford)
6. Kings College, Cambridge
7. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian
8. First Nations Media
9. National Museum of Australia
10. National Film & Sound Archive
11. Family History Access MoU with National Library of Australia, National Archives of Australia, Australian War Memorial, Noel Butlin Archives Centre—ANU, and ACT Territory Records/Heritage Library
12. First Languages Australia

Networks

1. Maiam nayri Wingara Indigneous Data Sovereignty Collective
2. National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network
3. Research Agencies Meeting
4. Pro Vice Chancellors (Indigenous) Network
5. Indigenous Data Network
6. Australian Research Data Commons communities of interest—sensitive data
7. Australian Research Data Commons communities of interest—data management planning
8. National Network for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researchers
9. Indigenous Desert Alliance
10. Cross-agency geospatial working group
11. Biocultural and traditional knowledge labels network
12. First Languages Australia

Research project partnerships

See Appendix C, ‘Research project summaries’.

Other partnerships

1. NTSCORP and the Minjungbal Bundjalung people and their Elders to co-convene the National Native Title Conference in 2019–2020
2. Queensland University of Technology to co-convene the AIATSIS National Indigenous Research Conference in July 2019
3. Link-Up organisations, through the Family History Unit, to support family history research for the Stolen Generations (MoUs renewed in 2018–2019)
4. Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre (KALACC) to support the preservation and return of cultural heritage materials
5. ArtSound FM community radio—creating a series of podcast programs that showcase items from the AIATSIS collection
6. Council on Australia–Latin-American Relations—cultural exchange program between AIATSIS and organisations in Mexico, Colombia and Peru relating to cultural preservation and collections, Indigenous languages, Indigenous policy-making, research and Indigenous community engagement