Associate Professor David Nichols

David Nichols is lecturer in urban planning at the University of Melbourne. His books include Urban Australia and Post Punk; Exploring Dogs in Space (co-edited with Sophie Perillo) and The Alert Grey Twinkling Eyes of C. J. DeGaris (2022).

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.