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12 - Reorienting One Health Governance towards Indigenous Understanding

A Need for the Prioritisation of Indigenous Knowledges

from Part III - One Health and Future Legal Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2025

Katie Woolaston
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
Jane Kotzmann
Affiliation:
Deakin University, Victoria
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Indigenous Knowledges, and its evolution across pre- and post-colonial Australia, provide a demonstrated understanding and application of practices beyond One Health. Despite being most impacted by the failures of adopting interdisciplinary One Health approaches, Indigenous Knowledges provide critical methodologies and governance structures to implement and understand the relationship between people, animals, and Country. This chapter explores methods to reconceptualise and reorientate One Health understanding within Australia by aspiring to pre-colonial Indigenous ways of being and doing. Importantly, it also draws upon the post-colonial involvement and learnings of Indigenous peoples in Australia, integrating through self-determination or forced into modern economies and society.

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The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law
Existing Frameworks, Intersections and Future Pathways
, pp. 183 - 195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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