{"id":1296,"date":"2025-04-17T04:46:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2025-04-17T04:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:46:46","slug":"abc-welcomes-professor-jackie-huggins-as-inaugural-elder-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/abc-welcomes-professor-jackie-huggins-as-inaugural-elder-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC welcomes Professor Jackie Huggins as inaugural Elder-in-Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Jackie Huggins AM FAHA has launched her tenure as the ABC\u2019s inaugural Elder-in-Residence with an interview on ABC News Breakfast this morning and in an\u00a0online feature by senior reporter Miriam Corowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Professor Huggins is a Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru woman and an eminent Australian with a distinguished career working across the community, government and non-government sectors and as an author and historian. In 2001 she became a Member of the Order of Australia for her work on reconciliation, social justice, literacy and women’s issues.<\/p>\n

She also has a long history with the ABC, starting when she worked at the Toowong, Brisbane headquarters when she was just 16.<\/p>\n

The Elder-in-Residence role was created last year in response to the\u00a0Listen Loudly, Act Strongly<\/a>\u00a0report and is for a two-year term, with an option to renew. Professor Huggins will support First Nations employees and provide cultural guidance to the management and leadership teams across the ABC during the implementation of the report\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n

Professor Huggins described becoming the ABC\u2019s Elder-in-Residence as \u201cone of my highest badges of honour\u201d and said the Listen Loudly, Act Strongly report had become a blueprint for other organisations to follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy new role is something that I never imagined I would do when I started my employment at the ABC when I was 16 years of age,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been a long-time audience member and contributor to the ABC. I look forward to deepening that connection through taking up the position of the ABC\u2019s inaugural Elder-in-Residence and to meeting and yarning with people across the divisions and offices of our national broadcaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am also looking forward to working with the Director First Nations Strategy, the Bonner Committee and the ABC Leadership team in setting the stepping stones for the work ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC Managing Director Hugh Marks welcomed Professor Huggins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Professor Huggins, and under the leadership of Acting Director of First Nations Strategy Kelly Williams \u2013 and with so many other contributors around the ABC \u2013 we are well placed to act strongly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must ensure our approach to addressing issues of racism and any form of inequity reaches into every part of the organisation. This is a priority for me in my new role as Managing Director.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Jackie Huggins AM FAHA has launched her tenure as the ABC\u2019s inaugural Elder-in-Residence with an interview on ABC News Breakfast this morning and in an\u00a0online feature by senior reporter Miriam Corowa. Professor Huggins is a Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru woman and an eminent Australian with a distinguished career working across the community, government and … Continue reading “ABC welcomes Professor Jackie Huggins as inaugural Elder-in-Residence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}