Exploring food systems using Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing
A Food System Horizons Webinar
THURSDAY, 25 September 2025
12:00 to 1:00PM AEST
ONLINE MS Teams
The food systems of the Australian continent have provided diverse healthy food and nutritional sources for the most of over 65,000 years. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People understand their role in utilising, protecting and sustaining the food system to ensure the collective wellbeing of all things that belong to Country. Since colonisation, the exclusion of this wisdom in Australia’s food system has been detrimental to human nutrition and the health of Country. Embedding Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing into food systems research is essential if we are to return to a food system that supports the long-term health of all people and our environment.
Read more about the Indigenous Food Systems Insight of ‘Towards a state of the food system report for Australia’.
Who will you hear from?
Max Fabila, Speaker
Max Fabila is a proud Jabirr Jabirr man and is an Indigenous researcher with a strong interest in addressing social and environmental issues from a creative perspective. Max has experience in research, community engagement and co-design within the Indigenous art, design and creative industries and has worked with several Indigenous communities around Australia. He is adapting these approaches to his current role at CSIRO, where he is working with Indigenous communities to bring Indigenous perspectives and Indigenous science to drought resilience and food security research. Max has a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology and Sociology) from the University of Sydney.
Caroline Deen, Speaker
Caroline Deen is a proud Kamilaroi woman completing her PhD at the University of Sydney’s POCHE Centre for Indigenous Research and the University Centre for Rural Health, where she explores how food security is measured for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, aiming to develop a more culturally responsive measurement tool. Caroline is passionate about achieving health equity for mob by addressing the social and cultural determinants of health, including access to healthy food. She holds a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Monash University, 2014) and a Master of Public Health (Research) (Monash University, 2018).
Is there another chance to join?
The presentation part of this webinar will be recorded and be made available on this page for those who are not able to attend on the day. Discussions will not be recorded.
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