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Arts/law graduate Jacklyn (Jackie) Hartley has won the prestigious Fulbright Postgraduate Australian Alumni (WG Walker) Award to undertake a Master of Laws in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Jackie is one of 20 students across Australia to receive a Fulbright Scholarship for 2006. The Alumni (WG Walker) Award goes to the highest-ranking postgraduate applicant.
The twenty-seven year-old will examine the status of Indigenous self-determination in international law and practice in the US, and analyse how these perspectives can assist the recognition of Indigenous self-determination in Australia.
“There has been a policy shift from ‘rights based’ to ‘practical’ reconciliation in Indigenous affairs in Australia,” says Jackie. “This environment, along with the abolition of ATSIC, has left a gap in the amount of attention paid to how Australian law and policy can be reformed to recognise and promote Indigenous self-determination.”
Jackie currently teaches Public Law in the Faculty of Law and tutors in Australian Environmental History with Associate Professors Rae Frances and Bruce Scates in the School of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Jackie was recently awarded the Lionel Murphy Foundation Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship, which will assist her studies in the US. Her academic success has also been recognised through the University Medal for History, the History Prize for Best Honours Thesis, the Lucinda Adamovich Scholarship in Law, the Frank Crowley Prize for Australian History, University Honours Year Scholarship and the Clayton Utz Scholarship in Law.
The Fulbright program is the largest educational scholarship of its kind, encouraging mutual understanding through educational exchange between the US and 150 other nations. Hartley will be honoured at the Fulbright National Awards Dinner on 18 May and will begin her Master of Laws in early July.
Author: Alex Clark, UNSW Media Unit
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