First Knowledges First

Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman from Rockhampton, Central Queensland. She is a prolific Aboriginal affairs journalist, academic, writer and commentator who has been published in Guardian Australia, The National Indigenous Times, The Saturday Paper, BuzzFeed News Australia, New Matilda, Vogue Australia, Marie Claire, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others.

She currently co-hosts Curtain The Podcast, which was named one of the Top 25 True Crime Podcasts by New York’s Vulture magazine. In 2019 she won a Clarion Award and was nominated for a Walkley Award for her essay on the wrongful conviction of Aboriginal man Kevin Henry, and in 2023 she won Meanjin’s Hilary McPhee Award for brave essay writing for her piece on the disappearing of Aboriginal women. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Carumba Institute.

Her latest book is Black Witness.

Professor Sandra Eades, PhD, AO, FASSA, FAHMS, FTSE is a Noongar woman from Mount Barker, WA. As well as Deputy Dean (Indigenous) at The University of Melbourne, she is a Professor at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She is the co-author, with Associate Professor Shawana Andrews and Professor Fiona Stanley, of First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture.