Dr Bhiamie Williamson is a Euahlayi man from NW NSW and SW Qld with family ties to north-west Qld. He has extensive experience working with Indigenous Ranger groups in Australia and First Nations groups in British Columbia Canada, assisting in the design of a First Nations Guardianship program. He is currently a senior lecturer at Monash University and has many academic qualifications including a Master’s of Arts in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria in Canada and a PhD on the changing nature of Indigenous men and masculinities from the ANU. Bhiamie was an architect of the ACT's cultural burning program and currently leads the National Indigenous Disaster Resilience research program.