Some admired the formal inter-disciplinary connections that were described by Daryle Rigney, Lecturer in the Yunggorendi Mande First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research at the Flinders University of South Australia. He co-operates with Associate Professor Gus Worby, Head of the Flinders School of Cultural Studies, and Christine Nicholls, lecturer in Australian Studies. Daryle Rigney concentrated upon knowledge production, social justice and contexts. He made the point that, as academics, lecturers know that curriculum development, teaching and research involves the construction of knowledge. His contribution was directed towards the need to create a culturally appropriate context for the knowledge produced.
Discourse needs to replace the monologues which have often constituted lectures.
In 1998 a unique subject being offered is Indigenous Australian Perspectives in Science and Technology. In a separate lecture Christine Nicholls raised the major issue of the lack of support at the secondary education level in the Northern Territory. The barrier of attitudes and approaches at the secondary level of education in a number of states was a recurring theme, to such an extent that it became one of the important resolutions put at the conclusion of the conference. Some delegates described it as a 'bottleneck'. Nancia made clear her view that university education today is a form of intellectual assimilation that separates Indigenous graduates from their traditional communities.