AASW National webinar Reconciliation Week 2025 – Bridging Now to Next

Join the AASW for a powerful webinar featuring Dr Christine Fejo-King, a distinguished Aboriginal social worker, policy leader and advocate for Indigenous self-determination.

Dr Fejo-King will draw from her decades of experience from her pivotal role in the National Apology to the Stolen Generations to her current work as Elder in Residence with the NT Department of Territory Families.

This webinar will be held during Reconciliation Week on Wednesday 28 May and will include a moderated Q&A offering attendees the chance to engage with Dr Fejo-King.

Join us online in your local time (detailed below) and gain 1.5 CPD points

AEST (ACT, NSW, QLD & VIC)

10.30 am to 12.00 pm

ACST (NT & SA)

10.00 am to 11.30 am

AWST (WA)

08.30 am to 10.00 am

Registration is free for AASW members.

Learn more about our Dr Christine Fejo King

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Christine Fejo-King is a senior Elder of the Larrakia Nation (Fejo family group) through her father. Her mother, Lorna Fejo was a Warumungu woman from Tennant Creek. She graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work from the Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University) and subsequently completed her PhD in Philosophy/Social Work at the Australian Catholic University in 2011. The PhD focused on the Kinship Systems of the Warumungu an Larrakia peoples of the Northern Territory. It was later published as a book entitled, Let’s Talk Kinship: Innovating Australian social work education, theory, research and practice through Aboriginal knowledge (2013).

Dr Fejo-King is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian College of Social Work and a member of the Australian Association of Social Work. As a social worker for more than fifty years she has worked in the areas of mental health, substance misuse, palliative care, child protection, juvenile justice, family and individual counselling, mentoring, course development, student supervision, community development and reconciliation. Shas also worked as a lecturer and tutor at a number of universities, including Charles Sturt University, the Australian Catholic University, and the Australian National University (ANU).

As the chairperson of the National Stolen Generations Alliance Dr Fejo-King played a pivotal role in the delivery of the Australian Government’s Apology to the Stolen Generation (2008) and later as the Chairperson of the National Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Workers (NCATSISWA), working in partnership with Dr Michael Adams, she lead national and international teams progressing the work necessary to hold a successful 3rd International Indigenous Social Work Conference in Darwin, in September 2015.

In 2017 she returned to the Northern Territory, working in an Intensive Family Support Service in Alice Springs, gave evidence in the Royal Commission into Detention and Child Protection in the Northern Territory (2017), and was employed by the Northern Territory Government from 2018 as the Director, Child and Family Centres.

In 2021 Dr Fejo-King became the first Elder in Residence for the Northern Territory Government, Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities. In this position she acted as senior cultural advisor to the Senior Executive Directors and the CEO. Reviewed policy and practice and developed and delivered Aboriginal Science units to the young people in youth detention and across the Northern Territory to young people in care, at risk of coming into contact with the justice system, and children still in the care of their families.

In 2023 Dr Fejo-King was awarded the First Nations Alumni Award from the Charles Darwin University (CDU) and won the Distinguished Alumni Award at the same time. She retired from her position as Elder in Residence for Territory Families, Housing and Communities in August 2024. In 2025, she was awarded the AASW NT Branch, Mary Moylan Award.

Now that she is “retired” she is researching the connections between astrophysics, genetics and the Aboriginal kinship system, with a particular focus on the skin system. She is also organising a NAIDOC Mini Aboriginal Science Fare for Sunday 6 July 2025, and in her spare time cross stitches, reads, and spends time with her family.