Mary Graham

Featured Paper

• Graham, Mary (2023). ‘the law of obligation, aboriginal ethics: australia becoming, australia dreaming’. parrhesia (37) pp 1-21. Download article.

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Featured Recording

Listen to Mary Graham speaking, as part of the Greenprints Exchange Workshop Series, about Indigenous philosophy and the relationist ethos.

• Glenn Woods, Mike Winer, and Mary Graham, ‘Forever Industries – First Nations’ approaches to sustainable economic futures’ (Webinar, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, 4 March 2025). Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6yL0wQMUiI
• Nidala Barker, Mary Graham, and Yin Paradies, ‘Decolonising and nonviolence: relationality, entanglement and complexity’ (Webinar, Green Institute, 6 November 2024) https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/events/decolonising-and-nonviolence/
• Mary Graham, ‘How the Aboriginal relationalist ethos can inform law and regulation’ (Conference Presentation, AELERT & INECE 2024 Global Summit, 2024). Presentation pdf: https://aelert.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/How-the-Aboriginal-relationalist-ethos-can-inform-law-and-regulation-Mary-Graham.pdf
• Mary Graham and Michelle Maloney, ‘Future Law: The Relationist Ethos and Governance’ (Conference Presentation, AELERT & INECE 2024 Global Summit, 2024). Presentation pdf: https://aelert.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Graham-and-Maloney-24-11-08-AELERT-INECE-2024-Global-Summit-FINAL-SESSION.pdf
• Mary Graham and Michelle Maloney, ‘EXPLORING BIOREGIONALISM: First Peoples’ governance systems and the Relationist Ethos’ (Webinar, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, 5 December 2024). Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieb9mDp1C9U&t=1607s
• Mary Graham, ‘Indigenous philosophy and ‘Relationist Economics’ with Mary Graham’ (Webinar, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, 12 September 2023). Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8afvrlkpxy4&t=1s
• Mary Graham, Yin Paradies, and Michelle Maloney, ‘Decolonising our thinking, feelings, and actions’ (Webinar, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, 7 September 2023). Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4CXIboS1Q.
• Ross Williams, Mary Graham, and Michelle Maloney, ‘Connecting to Place, Caring for Country’ (Webinar, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, 10 September 2022) https://www.earthlaws.org.au/event/connecting-to-place-sept-2022/
• Mary Graham, ‘Indigenous Philosophy and the Relationist Ethos’ (Webinar, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, 9 June 2022). Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unbtHQnTAxk&t=1s
• Mary Graham, Anne Poelina, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Michelle Maloney, ‘Caring for Country, Caring for Each Other: Celebrating World Localisation Day in Australia’ (Webinar, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, 14 June 2021). Webinar recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RNDceML8QU
• Rights of Nature (2020) – Tuesday October 13 – 6pm to 7.30pm AEST- ONLINE – Public lecture – Dr Michelle Maloney (AELA) and Mary Graham (Future Dreaming, UQ, Blackcard) – “Rights of Nature, Earth jurisprudence and Caring for Country – an Australian approach to Earth Laws”. https://www.earthlaws.org.au/events/rights-of-nature-2020/
• Workshop Series (2020) – “Connecting to Place, Caring for Country”.  During 2020 we hosted an online workshop series which focused on how human relationships with the living world can form a foundation for broader societal change and governance stability. By bringing together Aboriginal philosophy and law, with Western critiques of the current governance system, the workshop explored how ancient and emerging place-based approaches can offer an effective, practical, compassionate and successful future for Australia. The webinars featured Mary Graham, Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at UQ and Kombumerri person, Ross Williams – a Bindal/Juru man and social activist and Dr Michelle Maloney, National Convenor of AELA. – https://www.earthlaws.org.au/our-programs/future-dreaming/
• Peace and Stability Dialogue, (2019, November) – AELA and Future Dreaming co-hosted an innovative dialogue event with UQ, led by Mary Graham, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Queensland and Kombumerri person. Please visit the Dialogue Series webpage for more information.
• Earth Arts (2018, June). AELA hosted a 4 day Earth Arts workshop for 20 non-indigenous artists, which included a day’s session with Mary Graham, to increase the understanding of First Nations culture and wisdom by non-indigenous people.
• Auntie’s Lilla Watson & Mary Graham. (2017) https://triplea.org.au/listen/programs/lets-talk/aunties-lilla-watson-mary-graham/
• Everything Is Connected: Mary Graham Plenary On Indigenous Conceptions Of Governance. (2017) https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/indigenous-conceptions-governance/
• Indigenous Conceptions of Governance. (2017) https://ipan.org.au/talk-by-dr-mary-graham-indigenous-conceptions-of-governance/
• Peoples’ Tribunal (2016). In October 2016, AELA hosted the first Australian Peoples’ Tribunal for Community and Nature’s Rights. Tribunal Panelists included First Nations Peoples representatives Professor Irene Watson and Adjunct Associate Professor Mary Graham, and included a case presented by traditional custodians of the Mardoowarra/Fitzroy River (WA). Read more information about the Tribunal.
• Mary Graham: On Contemporary Aboriginal culture. (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_y0z6UmqU
• Mary Graham: Aboriginal Communities in South East Queensland. (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zj4SAsPBAE
• Mary Graham in conversation with Richard Fidler. (2013) https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/07/09/3799094.htm
• Good Culture and Precariousness. Six talks by Mary Graham. (Date Unknown)  http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/good-culture/participants/mary-graham/

Journal Articles

• Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg, ‘Indigenous International Relations: Old Peoples and New Pragmatism’ (2023) 77(6) Australian Journal of International Affairs 590, doi:10.1080/10357718.2023.2265847
• Morgan Brigg and Mary Graham, ‘Holding Contradictions: Toward the Lawful Carriage of Indigenous Diplomacy’ (2023) 77(6) Australian Journal of International Affairs 682, doi:10.1080/10357718.2023.2275707
• Graham, M. (2023). ‘the law of obligation, aboriginal ethics: australia becoming, australia dreaming’. parrhesia (37) pp 1-21. Download article. Also available via the Parrhesia Journal.
• Morgan Brigg and Mary Graham, ‘Approaching First Nations Diplomacy from the Australian Continent’ (2023) 77(6) Australian Journal of International Affairs 585, doi:10.1080/10357718.2023.2265849
• Morgan Brigg, Mary Graham and Martin Weber, ‘Relational Indigenous Systems: Aboriginal Australian Political Ordering and Reconfiguring IR’ (2022) 48(5) Review of International Studies 891, doi:10.1017/S0260210521000425
• Edward Synot, Mary Graham, John Graham, Faith Valencia-Forrester, Catherine Longworth and Bridget Backhaus, ‘Weaving First Peoples’ Knowledge into a University Course’ (2021) 50(2) The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 222, doi:10.1017/jie.2019.29
• Johnson, M., Brigg, M., & Graham, M. (2016). Pearson and Responsibility: (Mis-)Understanding the Capabilities Approach. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 62(2), 251–267. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12248
• Graham, M. (2014) ‘Aboriginal notions of relationality and positionalism: a reply to Weber’. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 4, 1: 17-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.895931
• Graham, M. (1999). Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews. World Views Environment Culture Religion 3(2):105-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853599X00090

Book Chapters

• Mary Graham and Michelle Maloney, ‘A City of Good Ancestors: A Relationalist View of Urban Governance and Design’ in Marcus Foth et al (eds), Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation (Oxford University Press, 2023) 241, https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191980060.001.0001
• Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg, ‘Indigenous Public Policy Futures: A Manifesto for Relationalist Public Administration’ in Nikki Moodie and Sarah Maddison (eds), Public Policy and Indigenous Futures (Springer Nature Singapore, 2023) 13
• Graham, M. & Maloney, M. (forthcoming 2023). A City of Good Ancestors: A Relationalist View of Urban Governance and Design. In Foth, M. et al. (Eds.) Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation, Oxford University Press.
• Graham, M., & Maloney, M. (2019). Caring for Country and Rights of Nature in Australia: A Conversation between Earth Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Law and Ethics. In La Follette, C. & Maser, C. (Eds.) Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429505959
• Graham, M., Brigg, M. & Walker, P. (2011). Chapter 4. Conflict Murri Way: Managing through Place and Relatedness. In Brigg, M., & Bleiker, R. (Eds.) Mediating Across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution (pp. 75-99). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860967-006

Online Articles

• Graham, M., & Brigg, M. (2022, January 20). Queensland’s ‘Path to Treaty’ has some lessons for the rest of Australia. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/queenslands-path-to-treaty-has-some-lessons-for-the-rest-of-australia-174464
• Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg, ‘Why We Need Aboriginal Political Philosophy Now, More Than Ever’ ABC Religion & Ethics (9 November 2020) https://commonslibrary.org/all-about-dr-mary-graham/#Read
• Brigg, M., & Graham, M. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the relevance of Aboriginal political concepts. ABC Religion & Ethics. https://abc.net.au/religion/coronavirus-and-aboriginal-political-concepts-morgan-brigg-and/12281304
• Brigg, M., and Graham, M. (2020). The relevance of Aboriginal political concepts: How “proportionality” can help close the gap. ABC Religion & Ethics. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/morgan-brigg-and-mary-graham-aboriginal-political-concepts-prop/12553830
• Graham, M., & Johnson, M. T. (2015, June 12). What residents of an English mining town learned from visiting Aboriginal communities. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/what-residents-of-an-english-mining-town-learned-from-visiting-aboriginal-communities-41847
• Brigg, M., & Graham, M. (2009, March 2). Take a page out of own book—Whitefellas must change to survive. Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/take-a-page-out-of-own-book–whitefellas-must-change-to-survive-20090301-8lh4.html

‘First Law and Songlines’ The Other Others (Spotify, 22 April 2021) https://open.spotify.com/episode/3q0WY4VBhhs38iHTtTA3Nd.

‘Stability, security and survival: a conversation with Mary Graham’ The Philosopher’s Zone (ABC Radio National, 11 December 2024) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/stability-security-and-survival-mary-graham/104459060

Graham, M., & Meehan, A. (2020). Ancient Economic Foundations. In Align the Sound. https://soundcloud.com/behind_the_lines_98_3/ancient-economic-foundations-mary-graham-aimee-meehan-nena20-2

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Bayles, M. (host). (2020, April 10). Dr Mary Graham – Professor, University of QLD (audio podcast). In Black Magic Woman. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/black-magic-woman/id1505283659?i=1000471138041

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Lowe, I. & Graham, M. (guests). (2018, September 26). Critical Parameters for the New Economy (audio podcast). In The Regen Narration. https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/026-critical-parameters-for-the-new-economy

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Graham, M. (guest). (2018). Indigenous Conceptions Of Governance (audio podcast). In Align in the Sound. https://soundcloud.com/behind_the_lines_98_3/2-mary-graham-indigenous-conceptions-of-governance

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Graham, M. (guest). (2013, January 22) Indigenous elder Mary Graham describes the essence of Indigenous perception (audio podcast). In Conversations with Richard Fidler. https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/01/22/3674244.htm

• Milroy, A. (2019, July 17). Why Indigenous values matter for all public servants and all communities. Power to Persuade. http://www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/why-indigenous-values-matter-for-all-public-servants-and-all-communities/16/7/2019

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