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Alma mater. RMIT University, PhD, 2020. Relatives. Louisa Briggs (great-grandmother) N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM is an Aboriginal Australian rights activist. She is a Yaluk-ut Weelam and Boon Wurrung elder, and serves as the Boon Wurrung representative in the City of Port Phillip.
Carolyn is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and the founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation, which supports Indigenous culture and language restoration. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her work with Aboriginal youth and communities across Australia.
Position: Professor (Elder in Research) College / Portfolio: Design and Social Context. School / Department: DSC|Research & Innovation. Phone: +61399256345. Email: carolyn.briggs2@rmit.edu.au. Campus: City Campus. N’Arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM is a descendant of the First Peoples of Melbourne, the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon ...
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- Intricate Knowledge of Family Genealogies
- Reconnecting Aboriginal People with Their Traditions, Family and Language
- Commitment to Aboriginal Youth
- Reviving Tanderrum
Carolyn’s intricate knowledge of family genealogies and the remaining living culture of the Boon Wurrung provided the basis for many of her subsequent achievements. Her knowledge of family genealogies is still often called upon to support and reconnect families. As a young girl, Carolyn moved to Moe, on the edge of Boon Wurrung country, where her f...
In the same decade, while working with Monash University’s Aboriginal Studies Unit, Carolyn became aware of the impact of past government and welfare authorities’ policies on Aboriginal young people. Whole generations had been disconnected from their family histories and knowledge of country. This inspired Carolyn to begin to record Aboriginal gene...
Her commitment to Aboriginal youth continued as she helped develop and manage La Trobe University’s Aboriginal Tertiary Support Unit at Bendigo. While at Bendigo, Carolyn established the Dja Dja Wurrung Association to honour the original Kulin clan. She later worked for the Equal Opportunity Commission, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths i...
Together with other Elders, Carolyn has played an integral role in reviving Tanderrum – the traditional Kulin Nation ceremony of welcome. Since 2013, Tanderrum has opened the annual Melbourne Festival. For the young people from the five Kulin Nations who participate in Tanderrum, it is a chance to connect with and understand their own culture. For ...
Monash University Research Portal. Carolyn is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and is the chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. She has been involved in developing and supporting opportunities for Indigenous youth and Boon Wurrung culture for over 50 years.
Carolyn Briggs is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and the chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. A descendant of the First People of Melbourne, the Yallukit Willam clan of the Boon Wurrung, she is the great-granddaughter of Louisa Briggs, a Boon Wurrung woman, born near Melbourne in the 1830s.
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