New collaborations in old institutional spaces: Setting a new research agenda to transform Indigenous-Settler relations Sarah Maddison and Sana Nakata Introduction In 1957, the very first Indigenous Australian enrolled in a University degree. Two years later, Margaret Williams-Weir, graduated from The University of Melbourne with a diploma in physical education. It would be another seven years before Charlie Perkins would graduate from The University of Sydney, and eight years before the Australian public would vote to count them among the peoples of the nation in the 1967 referendum. In the decades that followed, the numbers of Indigenous Australian university students have increased markedly. Bill Jonas became the first Aboriginal Australian to receive a PhD in 1980, and Martin Nakata, the first Torres Strait Islander to do so, would follow in 1997. Margaret Williams-Weir would eventually return to study and graduate with her doctorate in the 2000s before passing away in 2015. In total, only 55 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students were awarded PhDs in Australia between 1990 and 2000, but 219 Indigenous students earned doctorates in the 11 years to 2011 (see Bock 2014 for more). These numbers suggest that landscape of higher education and research in Australia has been radically transformed. The inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in classrooms, the thousands of university graduates that now populate an emerging Indigenous professional class, and the hundreds of PhD graduates and candidates currently seeking to make an impact on the academy indicate that a corner has been turned with regard to supporting, recognising, and rewarding Indigenous intellect and success. More than this, Indigenous knowledges now inform teaching and research in many institutions of higher education. Although an incomplete project, the fracturing of the hegemony of Western/settler knowledge is underway. The same cannot be said for the domain of politics and public policy – both in practice and in scholarship. In practice, during this same period, the landscape of Australian Indigenous policy