Dr Kirsten Thorpe (Worimi, Port Stephens) is a Chancellor\'s Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research, UTS. Kirsten leads the Indigenous Archives and Data Stewardship Hub, which advocates for Indigenous rights in archives and data, and develops research and engagement in relation to refiguring libraries and archives to support the culturally appropriate ownership, management and ongoing preservation of Indigenous knowledges.Kirsten has broad interests in research and engagement with Indigenous protocols and decolonising practices in the library and archive fields, and the broader GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector. Kirsten advocates for the \'right of reply\' to records, and capacity building and support for the development of Living Indigenous Archives on Country. Kirsten’s thesis, titled \"Unclasping the White Hand: Reclaiming and Refiguring the Archives to Support Indigenous Wellbeing and Sovereignty,\" explored Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty over the management of Indigenous knowledges, with a particular focus on engagement with archives. Kirsten is an invited member of the International Council on Archives Expert Group on Indigenous Matters and a co-founder of the Indigenous Archives Collective.

Co-Author/s
Aunty Christine Blakeney

Kath Davis
Kath Travis is a 2nd year PhD candidate and the Lisa Bellear Scholar at Victoria University and a stolen generation survivor. Over the last seven years she has professional experience as a family genealogist and historian specialising in the discipline of history. Concentrating on the main objective to research, study, analyse, interpret, and document facts of past human history. Her research focuses on Australia\'s 19th and early 20th century political, social, economic and historical context of identity and First Nations people in colonial and contemporary Australian society. Kath’s research seeks to explore ways in which archival stories can be re-claimed and re-authored by First Nations people to address individual, family, community identity and intergenerational healing. Kath has worked extensively across the education and justice sector with the Victorian First Nations community and the Victorian Public Sector for thirty years advocating for equitable outcomes for First Nations children, young people and families. She has been involved across many roles in community organisation\'s committee of management and currently holds positions with the Victorian Government\'s Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme Advisory Committee, the South Australia State Library and State Records Aboriginal Reference Group and the National Historical Records Taskforce.

Natalie Harkin
Associate Professor Natalie Harkin is a Narungga poet and academic living on Kaurna Yarta, South Australia, and a Research Fellow at Flinders University. She engages archival-poetic methods to document community Memory Stories, decolonise state archives, and is a member of South Australia\'s inaugural State Records/State Library of SA Aboriginal Reference Group. Her research centres on Aboriginal women\'s domestic service and labour histories and Indigenous Living-Legacy / Memory Story archive innovations for our time. Her words have been installed and projected in mixed-media exhibitions, including creative-arts research collaboration with Unbound Collective. She is widely published, and her manuscripts include Dirty Words (Cordite Books, 2015), Archival-poetics (Vagabond Press, 2019), and APRON-SORROW / SOVEREIGN-TEA (Wakefield Press, in-press).

Lisa Madden
Lisa Madden (Gomeroi Yinnar) and Bronwyn Gerry, Aboriginal Affairs NSW Lisa is a Gomeroi woman with over 25 years of experience in the NSW government and community-controlled sector. Bronwyn is a non-Aboriginal woman with experience in roles providing public access to NSW government records. Lisa and Bronwyn have worked together closely for three years as custodians of the archival collection of the NSW Aborigines Protection Board and Aborigines Welfare Board. In this time, they have advocated and worked towards improving access to the archival collection, particularly for Stolen Generations Survivors. Lisa has concentrated her work on Aboriginal Healing in recent years, learning from four dedicated Stolen Generations Organisations in NSW and developing a commitment to community healing inspired by a Survivor-led approach of truth sharing, truth telling, and truth acceptance. As the Director of Healing and Government Relations at Aboriginal Affairs NSW she is committed to developing an Aboriginal worldview that promotes and shares the importance of healing and wellbeing for Aboriginal people with Aboriginal people. Bronwyn has an academic background in Anthropology and History with a specific interest in collective memory. Over the past 8 years she has worked across several roles at the Department of Communities and Justice and Aboriginal Affairs NSW providing access to records for care leavers and Aboriginal community members. She is committed to ensuring improved access to records and trauma-informed practices and identifying opportunities for truth-telling including individual and collective right of reply.

Bronwyn Gerry
Lisa Madden (Gomeroi Yinnar) and Bronwyn Gerry, Aboriginal Affairs NSW Lisa is a Gomeroi woman with over 25 years of experience in the NSW government and community-controlled sector. Bronwyn is a non-Aboriginal woman with experience in roles providing public access to NSW government records. Lisa and Bronwyn have worked together closely for three years as custodians of the archival collection of the NSW Aborigines Protection Board and Aborigines Welfare Board. In this time, they have advocated and worked towards improving access to the archival collection, particularly for Stolen Generations Survivors. Lisa has concentrated her work on Aboriginal Healing in recent years, learning from four dedicated Stolen Generations Organisations in NSW and developing a commitment to community healing inspired by a Survivor-led approach of truth sharing, truth telling, and truth acceptance. As the Director of Healing and Government Relations at Aboriginal Affairs NSW she is committed to developing an Aboriginal worldview that promotes and shares the importance of healing and wellbeing for Aboriginal people with Aboriginal people. Bronwyn has an academic background in Anthropology and History with a specific interest in collective memory. Over the past 8 years she has worked across several roles at the Department of Communities and Justice and Aboriginal Affairs NSW providing access to records for care leavers and Aboriginal community members. She is committed to ensuring improved access to records and trauma-informed practices and identifying opportunities for truth-telling including individual and collective right of reply.