The panel will include Tina Baum from the National Gallery of Australia, Jilda Andrews from the National Museum of Australia, Lucy Hannan from the Office for the Arts and Phyillis Williams from the National Archives of Australia. The event will be facilitated by Rebecca Bateman from the National Library.

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If you cannot attend in-person, the conversation will be available online. Please make a booking and we will send you a direct link to the livestream event via email. Or you can join through the Library's YouTube channel.

About the panellists

Tina Baum

Tina Baum is from the Gulumirrgin (Larrakia)/Wardaman/Karajarri peoples of the Northern Territory and Western Australia with Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Scottish and German heritage. She has over 35 years experience working in museums and galleries throughout Australia and is the Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia. Tina curated the Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial 2017, the Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia 2021–25 national and international major exhibitions, Single Channel  multimedia touring exhibition 2023–2025, the Of this Earth ceramics touring exhibition 2025, and the Emerging Elders 2009 exhibition. 

Tina has a passion for learning and sharing First Peoples cultural knowledge and representation through the arts, culture, histories and Indigenising/de-colonising voices, perspectives and truth telling. Tina has a focussed passion to Indigenise best practice museum methodologies through appropriate cultural-care, identification, documentation, and Community engagement/co-management of Indigenous collections by reasserting traditional language, cultural authority and agency within museum and galleries throughout Australia and internationally. She is also passionate about increasing First Nations employment and representation within the arts and culture sector.

Jilda Andrews

Dr Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay cultural practitioner and was recently appointed Deputy Director, First Nations at the National Museum of Australia. She has more than 25 years experience as a leading scholar of museums, anthropology and cultural futures. Jilda has worked extensively in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sector in public-facing audience, learning and exhibition roles as well as exhibition design and gallery development, including the Museum’s Great Southern Land gallery and the Australia Pavilion for Expo 2025 in Osaka. 

She is a leading voice in the sector, actively contributing through advisory and board positions. With affiliations to the ANU through the Research School of Humanities and the School of Cybernetics, Jilda has a strong record of research and publication in the field. As an active member of her Yuwaalaraay community, Jilda has represented Country nationally and globally through her work as a researcher, cultural practitioner and performer. Jilda is extending continuities from Australia’s deep cultural roots to inform dynamic, culturally strong and inclusive communities and future societies.

Lucy Hannan

Lucy Hannan is an Assistant Director at the Office for the Arts. The Office for the Arts leads on work within the Commonwealth relating to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).

Phyllis Williams

Phyllis Williams is Gummulkbun from her Father, with ancestral lands in West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory and Larrakia Kulumbirrigin and Tiwi from her Mother, with ancestral lands in Darwin and on the Cox Peninsula, Northern Territory. Phyllis is currently Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement, National Archives of Australia, and has worked in archives organisations for over 28 years in a number of leadership roles. Her work has covered negotiations and consultations with Aboriginal people on issues associated with responses for archives to Royal Commissions and National Inquiries and a range of other projects focusing on services, programs and policy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Phyllis is a member of the International Council on Archives’ inaugural Expert Group on Indigenous Matters and Chairperson of the Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities First Nations Special Interest Group

Rebecca Bateman

Rebecca Bateman, a Weilwan and Gamilaroi woman, is the Director of Indigenous Engagement at the National Library of Australia where she has led the development and implementation of the Library’s Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Protocol. ​