The Registry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Academics
Posted 4 December 2025
A update on 17 Dec 2025 to include responses from some members below:
Informit was founded in the RMIT University Library in 1989 and claims to be:
the leading Australian scholarly and education resource for researchers, educators, librarians and learners by supporting the broadest range of publishers and research centres to promote bibliodiversity. We aggregate, organise and host a vast amount of authoritative content and make it accessible through our world class platform.
We are committed to fostering diversity in publishing and the promotion of critical thinking for a better informed and knowledgeable community.
With regard to Indigenous scholarship, Informit is:
incorporating First Peoples’ perspectives and knowledges within our platform. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led research is changing the national story in meaningful and positive ways, as well as having beneficial impacts within communities. As Australia’s primary research database, hosting the largest collection of academic content in Indigenous studies, the Informit platform is searched daily by thousands of students, researchers and members of the public and we are ideally placed to reflect and amplify these advances.
Quite independently, Dark Emu Exposed has been commissioned to investigate the creation of an independently verifiable Registry of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Academics.
We selected a dozen of the Informit certified Indigenous scholars (see below) and sent them the following self-explanatory letter, enquiring whether they would be willing to contribute to the registry. Their responses will be published in due course.
Figure 1 - Page 1 of letter of enquiry sent to the Informit Scholars
Figure 2 - Page 2 of letter of enquiry sent to the Informit Scholars
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
5 - Liz Cameron videos
A response from Professor Liz Cameron was received on 6 Dec 2025 (Figure 5D)
Figure 5D - Response, as a reply to the group email sent 4 Dec 2025 (See Figure 1)
A response from Dr Mandy Nicholson was received on 9 Dec 2025 (Figure 6A)
Figure 6A - Response, as a reply to the group email sent 9 Dec 2025 (See Figure 1)
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
A lovely detailed email response as well as a long phone call was received by Dr Jodi Edwards on 5 Dec 2025, a day after the group email in Figure 1 was sent.
Dr Edwards freely (and proudly) provided details of her family genealogy that clearly qualified her for membership of a certified Register of Australian Aboriginal Academics.
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
11 - Blayne Welsh video
No response received as of 17 Dec 2025
12 - Dr Paola Balla video
An offensive and unpublishable response was received on 5 Dec 2025
