Country & Climate Forum

Country and Climate Forum 

Bringing Indigenous Knowledge Systems into Action  

UTS Great Hall, Thursday, 13 March 2025  9.30 am -5.30 pm (all day event) 

Organisers: 

UTS Transdisciplinary School, Gaimaragal Group, Impact X, and CAW Foundation  

“Country and Climate” is an all-day event in the Great Hall at UTS as part of Climate Action

Week Sydney, 2025. Listen to the wisdom of the Elders and leading Indigenous experts in

the Environment, Economic and Technology spaces, elevating the voices of Youth as we

tackle pressing issues facing us all.    

 

Indigenous Knowledge Systems bring cultural science and intelligence into focus at “Country

and Climate”. At this important junction of our collective lives, we need - now more than ever,

to co-create something new and different, and breathe new life into a new reality that is

regenerative and healthy – understanding and recognising the legacy knowledge of 65,000+

years, and the legacy practices of the last 230 years, to vision a new reality.   

 

Throughout the day, gather seeds of change and in our final session, join us in an

extraordinary transdisciplinary futuring activity to collectively turn them into ideas for shifting

the current system towards a more inclusive and positive future.  

 

Key Speakers - 

- Katie Kiss, Kaanju and Birri/Widi, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Commissioner 

- Prof. Deen Sanders,  Worimi and Lead Partner, Deloitte Integrity 

- Prof. Anne Poelina, Nyikina Warrwa,  Human & Earth Rights Advocate, Academic 

- Luke McIlroy-Ranga Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toa, Social & Economic Inclusion Strategist & Advisor

- Susan Moylan Coombs- Gurindji Woolwonga,  Assoc. Professor, UTS Transdisciplinary

School, Gaimaragal Group