Historically, the people and institutions that carry out research related to Indigenous peoples have assumed that they own those data - they can share them, build on them, withhold them or obscure them, with no real requirement to give a tangible benefit to these communities in return.
The colonial structures that we, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, have lived in since our land, seas and skies were declared terra nullius means that a significant amount of research has been conducted on or about Indigenous peoples without our input.
In the health sector, studies often focus on the deficit-based view of our populations, which creates a narrative that does not reflect the historic and systemic inequities that have influenced these outcomes.
In the environmental sciences, there has been an exponential rise in the number of publications that refer to Indigenous knowledges between 1980 and 2021, showing their invaluable contribution to ecological modelling.
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