Gaia Western Australia

Gaia Western Australia, located at Fitzroy Crossing, is an allied association whose core group is exploring Gaia University's action learning systems and philosophy to see how they might serve indigenous people who wish to take full charge of the way in which their knowledge and wisdom is learned. This is against a continuous background of brutal colonization and discrimination stretching back 150 years and continuing today. The latest twist in this long and oppressive history has conventional Australian universities insisting that indigenous studies and research abandon their traditional ways of knowing and instead conform to classical western quantitative methods.

Clearly a liberation movement is required and aboriginal leaders in Western Australia and the Northern Territories see the potential of the 'liberating structure' that is Gaia University as a suitably adaptable and flexible platform for this important work. This comes at a time when competition for resources, especially water, in the dry north and west of the country is intensifying, and the 120-year white graziers land leases, granted in the late 1800's, are coming to an end. The indigenous community, as original guardians of the land, is seeking to make its voice heard in the negotiations around new arrangements and resource allocations. This is no easy task, especially in the current climate of funding cuts. Gaia WA, of all the Gaia University partners most needs support and help from allies. Please contact us if you wish to help.