Jill Milroy is a Palyku woman whose country is in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She is Dean of the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. The key focus of her current research is in Aboriginal story systems and she creates and tells stories with her mother, Gladys Milroy, a Palyku Elder. With more than twenty years experience in higher education, Jill was recently re-appointed for a second term to the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council, which provides key policy advice to the Federal Minister for Education Science and Training.