This paper explores the lives of three New South Wales Aboriginal women, mothers, artists and academics. It will identify the women’s success in academia as demonstrated by their pathways to education, employment, job satisfaction, commitment and leadership experiences. In addition, the challenges they have faced, together with balancing family and community commitments and the importance and influence of mentors who assisted them on their pathway to success will be discussed. They employ Aboriginal methodologies that privilege Aboriginal ways of being, knowing and doing utilising a yarning methodology which is a culturally appropriate conversational process of sharing stories to develop knowledge and educate younger generations. In this way, they generate new knowledge on what works and why for Aboriginal women in academia, identifying historical pathways and platforms to success, revealing common significant influences in order to uncover key drivers of success and aspects of cultural and social life, which have enabled them as Aboriginal women to succeed.

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振作起来：挑战和成功的故事

本文探讨了三位新南威尔士州土著妇女、母亲、艺术家和学者的生活。它将确定女性在学术界的成功，这体现在她们的教育、就业、工作满意度、承诺和领导经验的途径中。此外，还将讨论他们所面临的挑战，以及平衡家庭和社区承诺以及帮助他们走向成功之路的导师的重要性和影响。他们采用土著方法论，利用纱线方法论优先考虑土著人的存在方式、知识和行为方式，这种方法论是一种文化上适当的对话过程，可以分享故事以发展知识和教育年轻一代。通过这种方式，他们产生了关于什么对学术界的土著妇女有效以及为什么有效的新知识，