Museum Digital
Is this the source for Brook Andrew Sexy & Dangerous ? photo attributed to Charles Kerry, 1905, Barron River.
Ethnological Museum of Berlin
Ethnological Museum of Berlin. (2019-07-01). "Aboriginal, Barron River". Retrieved from https://nat.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=528885&cachesLoaded=true
Saturday, 30 November 2019
Ancestors returned | Leipzig
Grassi Museum of Ethnology, Leipzig, return 45 ancestral human remains to their rightful custodians, the
Gunaikurnai from Victoria, the Menang in Western Australia and the
Ngarrindjeri of South Australia.
Monday, 25 November 2019
logging for colonial reading
one person on that spearing event at Manly Cove
Page from Collins' 'Account of the English Colony' describing the spearing of Phillip at Manly Cove 7 September 1790'
Collins entry
Page from Collins' 'Account of the English Colony' describing the spearing of Phillip at Manly Cove 7 September 1790'
Collins entry
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Pinjarra massacre: 28 October 1834
The attack began at 8am on 28 October 1834.
Led by the governor of Western Australia, Captain James Stirling, an armed party of 25 people – alongside Stirling were the colony’s surveyor general, JS Roe; the police superintendent, Theophilus Ellis; a leading settler, Thomas Peel; five mounted police officers; eight soldiers of the 21st Regiment; and eight civilians – attacked a Pindjarup Noongar encampment on the Murray River, 85km south of Perth. (Dr Chris Owen: Guardian 20 November 2019)
James Stirling is buried in Guildford near St John's Stoke Church
This Australian Dictionary of Biography entry should be updated with the facts of the massacre - and reviewed in light of present day reading of the letters and journals of the time.
Led by the governor of Western Australia, Captain James Stirling, an armed party of 25 people – alongside Stirling were the colony’s surveyor general, JS Roe; the police superintendent, Theophilus Ellis; a leading settler, Thomas Peel; five mounted police officers; eight soldiers of the 21st Regiment; and eight civilians – attacked a Pindjarup Noongar encampment on the Murray River, 85km south of Perth. (Dr Chris Owen: Guardian 20 November 2019)
James Stirling is buried in Guildford near St John's Stoke Church
This Australian Dictionary of Biography entry should be updated with the facts of the massacre - and reviewed in light of present day reading of the letters and journals of the time.
Friday, 15 November 2019
Shared Sky and the SKA
SKA
The SKA Square Kilometer Array project is run from Jodrell Bank at Manchester Uni and one part of the telescope is in Western Australia
Shared Sky exhibition
Murchison Widefield Array
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low-frequency radio telescope, located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. The MWA has been developed by an international collaboration, including partners from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Canada and the United States. The telescope is maintained and remotely operated by a small team based at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy.
Steven Tingay is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University and a Western Australian Premier's Research Fellow. He is the Director of the Murchison Widefield Array, a precursor SKA (Square Kilometre Array) telescope due to come into operation in early 2013.astronomer TEDx Science, Art and Reconciliation
On Shared Sky exhibition
Marilynne Robinson and Marcello Gleiser in conversation In Mystery We Are
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock Brummie space scientist
The SKA Square Kilometer Array project is run from Jodrell Bank at Manchester Uni and one part of the telescope is in Western Australia
Shared Sky exhibition
Murchison Widefield Array
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low-frequency radio telescope, located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. The MWA has been developed by an international collaboration, including partners from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Canada and the United States. The telescope is maintained and remotely operated by a small team based at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy.
Steven Tingay is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University and a Western Australian Premier's Research Fellow. He is the Director of the Murchison Widefield Array, a precursor SKA (Square Kilometre Array) telescope due to come into operation in early 2013.astronomer TEDx Science, Art and Reconciliation
On Shared Sky exhibition
Marilynne Robinson and Marcello Gleiser in conversation In Mystery We Are
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock Brummie space scientist
Friday, 8 November 2019
THAT Q&A: Broadside
Link to Q&A on youtube
This episode was broadcast 4th November 2019.
Panellists: Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-American journalist;
Jess Hill, Author, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse;
Nayuka Gorrie, Essayist and Screenwriter;
Ashton Applewhite, American anti-ageism campaigner;
Hana Assafiri, Businesswoman and Social Change Agent;
Host, Fran Kelly.
This episode was broadcast 4th November 2019.
Panellists: Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-American journalist;
Jess Hill, Author, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse;
Nayuka Gorrie, Essayist and Screenwriter;
Ashton Applewhite, American anti-ageism campaigner;
Hana Assafiri, Businesswoman and Social Change Agent;
Host, Fran Kelly.
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Repatriation
Manchester Museum returning significant objects to Gangalidda & Garawa
as reported in Manchester Manchester Museum will repatriate 43 secret sacred and ceremonial objects to the Aranda people of Central Australia, Gangalidda Garawa peoples of northwest Queensland, Nyamal people of the Pilbara and Yawuru people of Broome.
Return article on BBC dated 21 Nov 2019
Monday, 4 November 2019
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