ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the Australian higher education context as it currently stands and discusses various initiatives that are being implemented across Australian universities in the space of Indigenous equity. She discusses opportunities, issues and challenges that present themselves in her Australian context toward achieving diversity that is needed in higher education globally. Gender equity initiatives within higher education rarely identify specific groups of women within such targets. Without specific targets ensuring Indigenous equity within gender equity policies, gendered racial oppression will continue within higher education, with such actions continuing the privileging of white women and subjugation of women of colour. Teaching and leadership, research, and leadership and governance. In order to undermine the privilege and disadvantage that are pervasive in the academy, university leaders must look carefully at institutions to identify the specific causes of power imbalance and privilege.
