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Indigenous activists have criticised the United Nations for placing Australia’s convict sites on the World Heritage List. UNESCO has announced that 11 sites, including Port Arthur, Hyde Park Barracks and Fremantle Prison, should be preserved because of their “outstanding universal value”. Australia already has 17 World Heritage areas, but only two are buildings. The Tasmanian […]
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via ABC online The Victorian Government has introduced legislation into Parliament that could take native title resolution out of the Federal Court. The framework would allow Indigenous groups to settle with the Government out of court, if they drop current native title claims and agree not to lodge future claims. The government says it could […]
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Peter Limbrick, Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). In Making Settler Cinemas, Peter Limbrick argues that the United States, Australia, and New Zealand share histories of colonial encounters that have shaped their cinemas in distinctive ways. Going beyond readings of narrative and representation, […]
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via Southern Perspectives A conversation between Tony Birch and Ross Gibson Two figures from the early days of the Australian colony that have fresh relevance today – an English scientist at the founding of Sydney and an indigenous leader at the birth of Melbourne. William Dawes arrived on the First Fleet as the official astronomer. […]
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D’Arcy, Jacqueline. ‘The Same but Different’: Aborigines, Eugenics, and the Harvard-Adelaide Universities’ Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol. 12, 2007: 59-90. Abstract: Norman B Tindale and Joseph B Birdsell visited Cape Barren Island (CBI) Reserve in January 1939, as part of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities’ Anthropological Expedition. The Expedition, it is argued, was the last major eugenic research […]
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state of origin’s poetic licence
Bravo. via Intertwingled Australians all let us rejoice, For we are young and free; We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil; Our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in nature’s gifts Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair. In Daharug: All of us mob are one […]
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Places are complex entities, not necessarily defined by physical structure or geographic location. Because of this, the ways of making place are many and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples have employed distinct strategies of place-making, and brought differing attitudes towards the constitution of place. While non-indigenous Australian histories of place-making have proved largely […]
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john pickard on fences
John Pickard, ‘Wire Fences in Colonial Australia: Technology Transfer and Adaptation, 1842–1900’, Rural History (2010), 21:27-58 After reviewing the development of wire fencing in Great Britain and the United States of America in the early nineteenth century, I examine the introduction of wire into Australia using published sources only. Wire was available in the colonies […]
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This from the ABC: The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is prosecuting the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust for failing to control the rabbit population in the Deen Maar Indigenous protected area. The DPI alleges the trust has not complied with a land management notice. The matter has been adjourned to be heard in the Warrnambool Magistrates […]
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