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Before the mission station: The incorporation of settlers into a seasonal economy
John White
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Exploring intercultural relations in the period of pastoral expansion, John White says that working relationships based on reciprocity enabled Aboriginal people to factor settlers into their seasonal movements and carve out a niche in the settler economy.
The art of cutting stone: Aboriginal convict labour in 19th-century New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land
Krystyn Harman
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
In the first half of the 19th century, at least sixty Aboriginal men from New South Wales were transported as convicts. Krystyn Haruman discusses their labours within the convict system, the rationale for putting them to work, and the outcomes.
‘Afghans’ and Aborigines in Central Australia
Philip Jones
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Philip Jones explores the relations between Aboriginal people and ‘Afghans’, whose camel trains linked Central Australian outposts with supply centres and markets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853
Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Creating a Country series, 14 October 2009
Curator Anthea Gunn talks about her research on the colonial settlement of Hobart and the expansion of Van Diemen’s Land in the early 1800s, as part of her work on the Creating a Country gallery.
Food and space: the Australian nation in the British Empire
Dr Adele Wessell, Southern Cross University
Historical Interpretation series, 6 April 2009
Historian Adele Wessell uses cookbooks to draw conclusions about Australian political and social life at the turn of the century, examining British diet and food preferences that were maintained and transformed in colonial Australia.
Introduction to the Creating a Country gallery
Dr Kirsten Wehner, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Creating a Country series, 11 March 2009
Curator Kirsten Wehner outlines the themes of the new National Museum of Australia permanent gallery, Creating a Country. It will look broadly at the history of Australia since European colonisation of the continent in the late eighteenth century.
Captured in Staffordshire
Rebecca Nason, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Australian Journeys series, 11 June 2008
Curator Rebecca Nason discusses two Staffordshire figurines of nineteenth-century Irish nationalist, parliamentarian and convict William Smith O’Brien. His story is told in the Australian Journeys gallery.
Photographer Richard Daintree’s glass plates
Dr Martha Sear, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Australian Journeys series, 10 October 2007
A set of ten rare glass plates depicting people and places in north Queensland in the mid-1800s reveal much about pioneering geologist and photographer Richard Daintree and life in the colony, according to curator Martha Sear.
Australia’s Official Papuan collection: Sir Hubert Murray and the how and why of a colonial collection
Sylvia Schaffarczyk, Australian National University
Collections 2006 series, 21 March 2006
Sylvia Schaffarczyk reconstructs the history of the Official Papuan collection at the National Museum of Australia and examines Australian collecting in Papua during a key period in the development of anthropology and Australia’s colonial interests.
