Professor Jill Milroy is a Palyku woman whose country is in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She is Dean of the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia and has more than 25 years experience in Indigenous higher education, which has included serving on a number of national advisory bodies, committees and reviews.
Jill is an Executive Member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Council. She has been a strong advocate within the national higher education arena for the formal recognition and resourcing of Indigenous knowledge systems.
Her research interest is in Aboriginal story systems and she creates and tells stories with her mother Gladys Milroy, a Palyku Elder. The basis of their work is the rights of Aboriginal children to be born into stories.
In 2011 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her services to Indigenous education.
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