Current Partnerships

These are some of the organisations and initiatives we partner with to make positive change together.

Ern MacDonald Fellowship

The Ern MacDonald On-Country Fellowship, is a partnership between the Dusseldorp Forum, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the MacDonald family. The Fellowship aims to advance Indigenous-led research.

The Anaiwan language was one of the first to be suppressed by European colonisation – but this once-dormant language is being reclaimed by the Armidale Aboriginal community.

The Fellowships’ first recipient Callum Clayton-Dixon, award-winning author of the book, Surviving New England, and founding member of the Anaiwan Language Revival Program, is central to the effort to revitalise the language of his ancestors.

Under the Fellowship, Callum is producing language teaching and learning resources, mapping kinship systems from archival records, and revitalising songs.

Fellowship will help revive Anaiwan language

The Anaiwan language was one of the first to be suppressed by European colonisation – but this once-dormant language is being reclaimed by the Armidale Aboriginal community.

First Languages Australia short with Callum Clayton-Dixon speaking about the Anaywan language

Learn more about Ern MacDonald Fellowship