Monday, 3 June 2019

Repatriation projects initiated on anniversary of 250yrs since Cook

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is leading the Return of Cultural Heritage project which is seeking to return Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage material from overseas collecting institutions back to its original custodians and owners. Link to news item

Abolitionist

Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 Activist Abolitionist, 'fugitive slave' until
Douglass argued that freedom would be empty if former slaves were not guaranteed the rights and protections of American citizens.  The 13th Amendment (ratified in 1865) abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) granted national birthright citizenship, and the 15th Amendment (ratified in 1870) stated nobody could be denied voting rights on the basis of race, skin color, or previous servitude.

Ngakari visit

Alpiri : Mr Roy Yaltjangki on ICTV Play (Indigenous Community Videos on Demand)

Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Documenting

Secret Instructions to Lieutenant Cook 1768
Cook's journal held in UNESCO Memory of the World register

August 29 1796 Bennelong letter to Phillip
 
Day of Mourning 1938 exhibition materials AIATSIS
1967 Referendum 
1972 The Larrakia Petition
-petitioned for the establishment of formal land rights and called for recognition of their indissoluble connection to land
petitions to the Queen held at National Archives of Australia


Barunga Statement 1988  - natural pigments on composition board with text on paper attached
Yirkkala Bark Petition 1963  - written on bark in painting and text on paper
The Barunga Statement 1988

Uluru Statement from the Heart 2017 - written on canvas in painting and text
 PDF of statement
 1 Voice Uluru website Voice Treaty Truth


Mabo Decision High Court of Australia 1992
Koiki Mabo's personal documents held in UNESCO Memory of the World register
June Oscar Mabo Lecture 2017

 Cook arrives NZ 1769 into Poverty Bay ( Abel Tasman December 1642)

Stan Grant
21st Annual Hawke Lecture delivered by Stan Grant: The Uluru Statement and the End of History
Stan Grant after re-election of ScoMo, sees new opportunity for the Statement

Treaty of Waitangi 1840

Calla Walquist  Constitutional Recognition and why the Uluru talks matters  - explainer

Megan Davis The Republic is an Aboriginal Issue, April 2018, The Monthly
 
Megan Davis Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians must involve structural change, not mere symbolism   17 Feb 2020 The Conversation

Watershed moments in Indigenous Australia's struggle to be heard, ABC
RN By Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Annabelle Quince for Rear Vision Updated 3 Jul 2018, 11:44pm 

Monday, 29 April 2019

Venice 2019

links ...
Frieze


Ane Graff, Ingela Ihrman, nabbteeri
Weather Report: Forecasting Future
Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
May 11–November 24, 2019

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

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Saturday, 19 January 2019

Research links for second Portico Library exhibition

Paul Daley The Guardian 'flawless hero or bogeyman'

Shayne Williams on the arrival 1770


Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771. Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :View of an arched rock on the coast of New Zealand with an hippa, or place of retreat, on the top of it. S. Parkinson del; J. Newton sc. London, 1784. Plate XXIV.. Ref: PUBL-0037-24. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22867534

Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771 :View of an arched rock on the coast of New Zealand with an hippa, or place of retreat, on the top of it. S. Parkinson del; J. Newton sc. London, 1784. Plate XXIV.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22867534?search%5Bi%5D%5Bname_authority_id%5D=-79612&search%5Bpath%5D=items

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Sunday, 13 January 2019

Lock Hospitals

Bernier and Dorre Islands, 50km off Carnarvon, Western Australia
1908 -1919
Acknowledgement ceremony marking 100 years since last person removed from the islands and hospitals closed
ABC Lock hospital article with video
'Between 1908 and 1919, more than 800 Aboriginal men, women and children were removed from their homelands across Western Australia and taken to 'lock hospitals' on Bernier and Dorre Islands for treatment for suspected venereal diseases. Many never returned home.'

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

queer, privilege, whiteness

challenging the 'Normative of queer is white person'  https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2014.849165

“The Normative Idea of Queer is a White Person”: Understanding Perceptions of White Privilege Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color in Toronto, Canada
Carmen H. Logie & Marie-Jolie Rwigema
Pages 174-191 | Published online: 18 Mar 2014

making queer art 2014

on the shores of queer theory, borderlands 2009

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