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Small Aboriginal community incorporations on shifting ground: A perspective from Ltyentye Apurte Community, Santa Teresa
Judy Lovell, University of Canberra (paper co-authored by Camille Dobson and Veronica Dobson)
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Judy Lovell describes Keringke Arts Aboriginal Incorporation and the effect of the ‘Emergency Response’ and government reforms; and Ntwerle Aboriginal Incorporation, a new initiative promoting and hosting whitefella leadership training programs.
The art of cutting stone: Aboriginal convict labour in 19th-century New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land
Kristyn Harman, University of Tasmania
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. Kristyn Harman discusses their labours within the convict system, the rationale for putting them to work, and the outcomes.
The economy of shells: A history of Aboriginal women at La Perouse making shellwork for sale
Maria Nugent, National Museum of Australia
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Maria Nugent explores the 130-year-long practice of shell-working by Aboriginal women at La Perouse in Sydney’s south, and how the makers have been able to create or find new markets by adapting their products to appeal to new customers.
Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853
Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks 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.
Stories of the sea: travellers across the Pacific
Deveni Temu, Prue Ahrens and Sioana Faupula
Vaka Moana series, 16 September 2009
Pacific scholars Deveni Temu, Prue Ahrens and Sioana Faupula explore the personal and historical accounts of lives lived with the sea, from early Indigenous populations and European venturers to contemporary travellers.
Force for good: how Indigenous Australians have enriched football
Che Cockatoo-Collins, Dr Sean Gorman, John Harms, and Dr David Headon
15 September 2009
This is a forum on how Indigenous Australians have enriched Australian Rules football, and the social significance of their participation. Speakers include players, academics and sports commentators.
Get Up, Stand Up public forum
Martin Ballangarry, Brothablack, Professor John Maynard and Rachel Perkins
10 September 2009
Contemporary forms of Indigenous protest are examined by historian John Maynard, film director Rachel Perkins, elder Martin Ballangarry and hip-hopper Brothablack in a forum coinciding with the Museum’s From Little Things Big Things Grow exhibition.
Memorials and sacred sites
Professor Claire Smith, Flinders University and Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia
Sites of Memory symposium, 28 August 2009
The spiritual significance and memorialisation of place are explored by archaeologist Claire Smith, examining Aboriginal sacred sites, and by historian Peter Stanley’s research into the Mont St Quentin battlefield.
In coral seas: ships, cargo and people in the South Pacific 1930 to 1960
Jonathan Ritchie, Deakin Unversity
Vaka Moana series, 22 July 2009
The history of trade, shipping, tourism and migration between the Pacific islands and Australia is explored by historian Jonathan Ritchie as part of Voyages of the Pacific Ancestors: Vaka Moana exhibition.
Investigation into the collections of Dr Herbert Basedow
David Kaus, National Museum of Australia
2 July 2009
National Museum Friends Foundation Fellow David Kaus outlines his research into Aboriginal artefacts and natural history specimens collected by Herbert Basedow between 1903 and 1928 and now held in institutions across Australia.
