Team
Sid Domic & Carol Bond, here.
We began working together in 2017, at the University of Queensland, as educators with a shared passion. We both wanted to find ways to facilitate the sharing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait knowledges and wisdom more accessible between mobs as well as to the larger, non-Indigenous community.
We have created a dialogue – between the Northern Hemisphere academic and socio-political world view and the Southern Hemisphere Indigenous sciences and world view. This dialogic space has become an inquisitive and dynamic conversation into which we would like to invite you and your team.
We have a wider team of associates, from Australia and Vietnam, whom we call on to meet the needs of our clients. Won’t you join us?
Carol Janson Bond
PhD
Carol comes from the lands of the Miami-Illinois & Potawatamie peoples called “Šikaakwa,” which refers to both “striped skunk” and “wild onion” – each a symbol of strength and leadership. Her family has European heritage from Sweden, Poland, and Switzerland.
Carol moved to Mianjin in 2007 to undertake both a Master’s and a Doctoral degree at the University of Queensland. During her studies, Carol became an expert in mediation, conflict resolution, and peace building.
As a consultant, she focuses on enhancing dialogue between organisations with their internal and external stakeholders.
Carol currently lives and works in Naarm at RMIT University in the College of Business & Law as a Senior Researcher & Lecturer in the School of Management. Carol is committed to knowledge translation between academic knowledge and organisational practice. She is just as interested in translating organisational practice back into her learning spaces.
Carol is a longtime ally of Indigenous peoples and has been trained in culturally appropriate instructional modalities.
Sid Domic
(Kalkadoon)
Sid Domic is born and raised in Rockhampton, he is of Aboriginal descent, is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s, and is now a respected Indigenous artist of over 30 years.
Domic played in Australia for the Brisbane Broncos and the Penrith Panthers, and in England for the London Broncos, the Warrington Wolves, the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, and Hull F.C.
Domic also coached junior players whilst playing professionally, and following his retirement.
While he was in Brisbane with the Broncos, Domic worked for the Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency, helping young people in detention learn more about Aboriginal culture, sometimes bringing in Elders to talk to the kids; storytellers, musicians, dancers, artists, all to make them more aware of their culture.
Sid has been bringing artists into the centre to teach the boys how to paint, and started to sit down with them and paint a bit himself. If he learned something about his people, he would paint it, and has gone on to paint hundreds of paintings he is really proud of. Much of his own knowledge in this area has been passed down to him by his grandmother.
Domic’s paintings are ongoing projects, and he will go back and add to apparently finished pieces as he learns more about his history of his people and his own heritage.
He’s also found opportunities to extend his research and his art through speaking engagements at schools, organised by the clubs he played for overseas and in Australia. If a student asked a question he couldn’t answer, it became an opportunity to do further research and more painting. Through his fame from his playing career, he has visited children at many schools to expose them to Aboriginal culture.
Passionate about his culture in general, Domic has an ambition to spread knowledge about Australian hidden culture through his art and to promote stories in a way of learning or to stimulate conversation about the content of his art. His ability to connect to a story comes naturally and his creations flow seemingly effortlessly, as he captures symbolism through art.
He has a keen interest in meeting people and experiencing their journeys through his art, where their story is given in layers throughout the project of a commissioned piece.
Apart from his art, he is an avid native plant enthusiast and grower of bush tucker gardens, with a dream of owning his own farm one day, farming the traditional way and restoring and revegetating the land. Planting native grasses and native plants for food and medicine with plans of helping larger sections of Aboriginal communities being able to do the same.
Sid is also co-founder of the native food company “Thiliarra Bush Organics”, which specializes in wild fermented honey vinegars, native teas & gourmet salt seasonings.
He hopes to return to Mount Isa and connect with country, and to visit Palm Island in search for a connection to his people, the Kalkadoon.
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If you are interested in learning more about our work or exploring how we can support your organisation, we invite you to reach out and start a conversation with our team.