In February 2023 Tristen Harwood presented Monash University’s inaugural Climate Aware Creative Practices (CACP) Network Keynote Lecture ‘Sustainability is Colonialism: land trauma and settler futurity in environmentally conscious art’. Tristen Harwood, an Indigenous writer, cultural critic and independent researcher, and a descendant of Numbulwar where the Rose River opens onto the Gulf of Carpentaria. How do we come to terms with the settler-colonial foundations of conservation and environmentalism in the context of art and pedagogy? To this question, Tristen will offer Indigenous and decolonial perspectives on teaching environmentally conscious creative practices.