Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews is an Aboriginal Australian academic and historian.

Andrews is a professor at La Trobe University in Victoria where she is also the Academic Director of Indigenous Research.

She has contributed to numerous research articles, journal articles and books and has written her own pieces of original creative work.

Andrews is also the university's most cited Aboriginal Studies researcher.

In 2015, Andrews completed her PhD with a thesis entitled Where's all the community? Kinship, mobility and identity revisited in Aboriginal Melbourne.

Andrews is credited with developing the university's Indigenous academic framework which led to a First Nations curriculum being developed. She also founded the university's first Indigenous Research Centre called Gabra Bilk, Wurruwila Wutja which was established as part of La Trobe's 2022-2030 Indigenous Research Strategy.

Community involvement Andrews has served in various community leadership roles including being a member of the Aboriginal Cultural Advisory Council at the Museum of Victoria since 2011. She has also offered her commentary on various Indigenous issues in the media.

In March 2024, Andrew spoke at the Yoorook Justice Commission hearing.

Personal life Andrews was born in Mooroopna, Victoria and is a descendant from the Yorta Yorta, Wiradjuri and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung peoples and is a member of the Briggs family and the Dhulunyagan clan.

She attended St Brendan's Primary School before attending Townsville's Black Community School which had been established by Eddie and Bonita Mabo.

In 2024, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.