Purai is an Awabakal word meaning “the world, earth”. The blue outline represents the flow of world tides and currents. Orange & red represents the desert lands. Green represents the rainforests.

Purai Global Indigenous History Centre is a research hub that embraces Indigenous knowledges, cultures, histories and contemporary experience on a worldwide scale. It supports truth telling and Indigenous-led and community-driven research that highlights issues within and across Indigenous communities and diaspora. We value Indigenous research methodologies, and non-traditional research outputs.

Drawing upon our extensive national and international connections, Purai harnesses collaborations that lead to high-quality original research projects and the development of productive new knowledge networks.

By integrating Indigenous and transnational/transcolonial global scholarship with approaches from a range of disciplines, Purai aims to generate new and ground-breaking interdisciplinary research methodologies for the study of global Indigenous knowledges, cultures, histories and contemporary experience.