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Jac's Blog

I'm starting all over again.. lets go!

The year of 2018 was a great year of change for me, but as it turns out, one of the best years of my life. I feel that through challenging times, a rebirth can be had. I am now doing what I was put on this earth to do. Share my story and the story of my ancestors.
I am currently working part time at Monash University in the Monash Indigenous Studies Center and it is wonderful. I am also now a PhD candidate at Monash University. When I'm not at Monash, I'm available to share my story, visiting Indigenous and non-Indigenous community organisations and schools sharing my family story or running Aboriginal art workshops or doing face painting and body art.

I'm learning to use technology all over again and I have to say I'm doing OK. Photocopiers are able to scan and email documents now.. and I can download books and articles onto my computer in a second.. very cool. My creative juices are flowing. I am drawing and painting and it feels like I am the star of my own life again.

I am taking my boys to be the beach every week so they can go fishing and walking my beautiful dog every day. I am walking in bear feet and feeling the earth from beneath my toes. I see white feathers everywhere, my angels are watching over me and guiding me every day. I feel happy and excited about my future and the future of my boys.

What has next year got in stall for us? 2019 has turned out to be turbulent but exciting year in work and study. I'm really looking forward to 2020. What do you want to achieve next year?

Jac's Publications

Monash University Profile @ https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jacinta-walsh/

Research Profile @ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2774-1373

Report

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Emily Armstrong, Indigenous Care Leavers in Australia: A National Scoping Study, August 2020, Department of Social Work, Monash University,

Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University SNAICC, Melbourne.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Jacinta Walsh, Songlines in action: Tracing five generations, Book Review of "Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories" by Shauna Bostock, October 2023, Australian Book Review. no. 458

Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Phillip Mendes & Rachel Standfield. First Nations care leavers: Supporting better transitions (Practice Guide). Melbourne: Child Family Community Australia, Australian Institute of Family Studies. September 2023, Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Jacinta Walsh and Lynette Russell. Yarning with the Archives. In The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures, edited by Bronwyn Carlson, Madi Day, Sandy O’Sullivan, and Tristan Kennedy, 226–39. 1. Routledge, 2023.

DOI: 10.4324/9781003271802-18.

Jacinta Walsh, Married to a 'British Subject', February 2023, In The Australian Journal of Politics and History. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12853

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Indigenous youth transitioning from out-of-home care in Australia: a study of key challenges and effective practice responses, August 2021, Journal of Children's Services, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 16-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-08-2021-0034

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) young people leaving out-of-home care in Australia: A national scoping study, February 2021, In Children and Youth Services Review 121.

Media Publications

Jacinta Walsh, In one family’s story, a case for the Voice to Parliament, 7th September 2023, In The Lens, Monash University, Melbourne

Philip Mendes, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Casualties of a system in crisis: Young, Indigenous and forgotten

after leaving out-of-home care, 12th October 2020, In The Lens, Monash University, Melbourne

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Emily Armstrong, Indigenous children are leaving out-of-home care to uncertain futures. This is the support they need, September 2020, In The

Conversation, Melbourne.

Media - Expert Comment

Olivia Jenkins, Indigenous History Push, 6th February 2022, In Herald Sun, Melbourne.

Olivia Jenkins, Stars back more Indigenous language and history in schools,

15th February 2022, 6:30pm, Kidsnews.com.au

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