The Indigenous and Australian Studies major will cover movements such as Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous human rights, self-determination and Indigenous futures. This will contribute to broader understandings of political and social policy within Australia (Closing the Gap 2019) and Indigenous communities self-determination to redress inequality.

Using Indigenous led creative/scholarly teaching and learning, (visual arts, poetics, Indigenous literatures, spoken word, performance, song, exhibition, curation), will locate Indigenous well-being and Indigenous ways of knowing and doing, as central to any decolonising processes. The major can contribute to creative decolonising knowledge production, critical thinking, having the potential to transform and reform relationships within settler-state institutions through informed graduates.