Carumba Institute

The Carumba Institute provides a world class Indigenous research and educational environment that foregrounds Indigenous sovereignty. We recognise the centrality of land to Indigenous Australian culture, identity, and spirituality; the significance of intellectual work that affirms Indigenous Australian rights to country and the criticality of Indigenous Australian knowledges to a sustainable future.

Pride

The Carumba Institute insists that Indigenous knowledges are living, embodied, excellent to real world change.

Power

The Carumba Institute recognises that Indigenous peoples and communities have long been powerful in their knowing – a knowing that is found in the hearts and homes of our people.

Meet our Team QUT - Power in Black Knowing

Justice

The Carumba Institute extends the gift of belonging to community, Indigenously and intellectually.

Justice in Black Knowing

Joy

The Carumba Institute embraces the full range of emotions found in the expression of Black Knowing, including the centrality of joy to Indigenous life worlds.

'Meanjin oration' - QUT - Joy in Black Knowing

Belonging

The Carumba Institute prioritises knowledge production, which is courageous in it’s pursuit of justice, grounded in truth telling and of service to Indigenous and Black resistance struggles locally and globally.

Belonging in Black Knowing