Mawul Rom Project: Openness, obligation and reconciliation Morgan Brigg (Universtiy of Queensland) and Anke Tonnaer (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Aboriginal Australian initiatives to restore balanced relationships with White Australians have recently become part of reconciliation efforts. This paper provides a contextualised report on one such initiative, the Mawul Rom crosscultural mediation project. Viewing Mawul Rom as a diplomatic venture in the lineage of adjustment and earlier Rom rituals raises questions about receptiveness, individual responsibility and the role of Indigenous ceremony in reconciliation efforts. Yolngu ceremonial leaders successfully draw participants into relationship and personally commit them to the tasks of cross-cultural advocacy and reconciliation. But Mawul Rom must also negotiate a paradox because emphasis on the cultural difference of ceremony risks increasing the very social distance that the ritual attempts to confront. Managing this tension will be a key challenge if Mawul Rom is to become an effective diplomatic mechanism for cross-cultural conflict resolution and reconciliation. Living in two camps: the strategies Goldfields Aboriginal people use to manage in the customary economy and the mainstream economy at the same time Howard Sercombe (Strathclyde University, Glasgow) The economic sustainability of Aboriginal households has been a matter of public concern across a range of contexts. This research, conducted in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, shows how economically successful Aboriginal persons manage ?dual economic engagement?, or involvement in the customary economy and the mainstream economy at the same time. The two economies sometimes reinforce each other but are more often in conflict, and management of conflicting obligations requires high degrees of skill and innovation. As well as creating financially sustainable households, the participants contributed significantly to the health of their extended families and communities. The research also shows that many Aboriginal people, no matter what their material and personal resources, are conscious of how fragile and unpredictable their economic lives can be, and that involvement in the customary economy is a kind of mutual insurance to guarantee survival if times get tough. Indigenous population data for evaluation and performance measurement: A cautionary note Gaminiratne Wijesekere (Dept. of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra) I outline the status of population census counts for Indigenous peoples, identifying information on Indigenous births and deaths, and internal migration estimates. I comment on the ?experimental? Indigenous population projections and question the rationale for having two sets of projections. Program managers and evaluators need to be mindful of limitations of the data when using these projections for monitoring, evaluating and measuring Indigenous programs. Reaching out to a younger generation using a 3D computer game for storytelling: Vincent Serico?s legacy Theodor G Wyeld (Flinders University, Adeliade) and Brett Leavy (CyberDreaming Australia) Sadly, Vincent Serico (1949?2008), artist, activist and humanist, recently passed away. Born in southern Queensland in Wakka Wakka/Kabi Kabi Country (Carnarvon Gorge region) in 1949, Vincent was a member of the Stolen Generations. He was separated from his family by White administration at four years of age. He grew up on the Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve in the 1950s, when the policies of segregation and assimilation were at their peak. Only returning to his Country in his early forties, Vincent started painting his stories and the stories that had been passed on to him about the region. These paintings manifest Vincent?s sanctity for tradition, storytelling, language, spirit and beliefs. A team of researchers was honoured and fortunate to have worked closely with Vincent to develop a 3D simulation of his Country using a 3D computer game toolkit. Embedded in this simulation of his Country, in the locations that their stories speak to, are some of Vincent?s important contemporary art works. They are accompanied by a narration of Vincent?s oral history about the places, people and events depicted. Vincent was deeply concerned about members of the younger generation around him ?losing their way? in modern times. In a similar vein, Brett Leavy (Kooma) sees the 3D game engine as an opportunity to engage the younger generation in its own cultural heritage in an activity that capitalises on a common pastime. Vincent was an enthusiastic advocate of this approach. Working in consultation with Vincent and the research team, CyberDreaming developed a simulation of Vincent?s Country for young Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal persons from the Carnarvon Gorge region to explore Vincent?s life stories of the region. The use of Vincent?s contemporary paintings as storyboards provides a traditional medium for the local people to interactively re-engage with traditional values. Called Serico?s World, it represents a legacy to his life?s works, joys and regrets. Here we discuss the background to this project and Vincent?s contribution. A singular beeswax representation of Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, from western Arnhem Land RG Gunn (La Trobe University) and RL Whear (Jawoyn Association) Samples from a beeswax representation of Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, from western Arnhem Land were analysed for radiocarbon and dated to be about 150 years old. An underlying beeswax figure was found to be approximately 1100 years old. The Dreaming Being Namarrkon is well known throughout Arnhem Land, although his sphere of activity is concentrated around the northern half of the Arnhem Land plateau. Namarrkon is well represented in rock-paintings in this area and continues to be well represented in contemporary canvas-paintings by artists from the broader plateau region. We conclude that representations of Namarrkon in both painted and beeswax forms appear to be parallel manifestations of the late Holocene regionalisation of Arnhem Land. ?Missing the point? or ?what to believe ? the theory or the data?: Rationales for the production of Kimberley points Kim Akerman (Moonah) In a recent article, Rodney Harrison presented an interesting view on the role glass Kimberley points played in the lives of the Aborigines who made and used them. Harrison employed ethnographic and historical data to argue that glass Kimberley points were not part of the normal suite of post-contact artefacts used primarily for hunting and fighting or Indigenous exchange purposes, but primarily were created to service a non-Indigenous market for aesthetically pleasing artefacts. Harrison asserted that this market determined the form that these points took. A critical analysis of the data does not substantiate either of these claims. Here I do not deal with Harrison?s theoretical material or arguments; I focus on the ethnographic and historical material that he has either omitted or failed to appreciate in developing his thesis and which, in turn, renders it invalid. The intensity of raw material utilisation as an indication of occupational history in surface stone artefact assemblages from the Strathbogie Ranges, central Victoria Justin Ian Shiner (La Trobe University, Bundoora) Stone artefact assemblages are a major source of information on past human?landscape relationships throughout much of Australia. These relationships are not well understood in the Strathbogie Ranges of central Victoria, where few detailed analyses of stone artefact assemblages have been undertaken. The purpose of this paper is to redress this situation through the analysis of two surface stone artefact assemblages recorded in early 2000 during a wider investigation of the region?s potential for postgraduate archaeological fieldwork. Analysis of raw material utilisation is used to assess the characteristics of the occupational histories of two locations with similar landscape settings. The analysis indicates variability in the intensity of raw material use between the assemblages, which suggests subtle differences in the occupational history of each location. The results of this work provide a direction for future stone artefact studies within this poorly understood region.document reproductions, maps, b&w photographs, colour photographskimberley, mawul rom project, 3d computer game, storytelling, vincent serico, beeswax, namarrkon, artefact assemblages, strathbogie ranges, groote eylandt, budd billy ii

The biography of a Victorian Koori woman who traced her family lineage back to the first contact between Indigenous Victorians and the founder of Melbourne. Daughter of Two Worlds by Dawn Lee begins with a tragic affair between Eliza Batman, the wife of Melbourne pioneer John Batman, and William Willoughby, Batman's right-hand man and a pillar of Melbourne's early Wesleyan church. The book also unearths the remarkable truth behind a family legend that Dawn Lee's great grandfather was a mysterious white English lord who met her great grandmother, Susannah, a full tribal Gunditjmara woman.maps, b&w photographsgunditjmara, dawn a lee, aboriginal victorians, victorian history

Details the coming of the white man, including explorers and squatters to the Wangaratta area, from a white perspective, written by Wendy Mitchell, and an Aboriginal perspective, written by Freddie Dowling.maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographs, word listswangaratta, pangarang, genocide

The story of Kaurna man Uncle Lewis O'Brien and his family, beginning with his great, great grandmother Kudnarto - the first Aboriginal woman to marry a white man in South Australia. Contents: 1: Padniadlu wadu: Let's walk together in harmony 2: Kudnarto of Skillogalee Creek 3: Who was Tom Adam senior? 4: Tom and Tim Adams of Poonindie 5: The Adams Family of Point Pearce mission 6: Treasured memories and lessons from the mission 7: My difficult childhood 8: Leaving school and doing an apprenticeship 9: Joining the Merchant Navy 10: Becoming a 'land-lover' and settling down 11: Reflections on working in schools and university 12: Sharing our space 13: Achievements and celebrations.colour photographs, maps, b&w photographskaurna, south australia, political activism

Nine songs in the Butchulla language sung by students. Joyce Bonner Co-ordinator, Kassie Bonner Music Director, Travis Page Song man and Tutor, Malcolm Burns Traditional dancer and Tutor, Nikki Michail freelance filmmaker and photographer (CD design and layout), Grevillea Studios, ALbion, Brisbane CD recording and mixing.CDbutchulla, korrawinga aboriginal corporation

Jack Buckskin is a man whose mission is to sculpt a new urban Aboriginal language and culture, and through that bring hope back to his people. Broadcast on ABC1 Television on 13 October, 2013DVDkaurna, south australia, language activism

Landscape and Language -- Lubra Creek -- The River Runs Backwards -- These Blarsted Hills -- Scarcely Any Water on Its Surface -- Everyone Who Has Ever Done A Tree Sit Always Says That The Tree Talks To You -- The Spirit of the Plains Kangaroo -- The Graveyard of a Century -- So Much for a Name -- Blackfellow Oven Roads -- The Ends of the Earth -- Natural Beauty, Man-Made -- Uluru -- The Outside Country -- It's Only Words.Mapslanguage and landscape, language essays, writing, storytelling

Resource book developed by Aboriginal woman in consultation with local Kurnai community of Gippsland, Victoria; includes advice on story telling, involving community and parents, Koorie parents view of schooling , how Koories learn, strategies and activities for classroom, shows symbols used in art, making animal tracks, Kurnai stories include the first man and woman, the Southern Cross and the moon, the talking dog, the echidna, robin redbreast, Tidda-lick the frog, origin of fire, Kur-bo-roo the koala bear, how the sun was made; artwork in planning lessons is copyright free.b&w illustrations, games, classroom activitiesgunai, kurnai, gippsland, lake tyers, koorie studies, dreaming stories, storytelling, koorie education

Some ecological bases for Australian tribal boundaries /? Norman B. Tindale Man and ecology in the highlands of southeastern Australia : a case study /? Josephine Flood The natural and cultural areas of Aboriginal Australia : a preliminary analysis of population groupings with adaptive significance /? Nicolas Peterson 'The chain of connection' : the material evidence /? D.J. Mulvaney Realities and transformations : the tribes of the Western Desert of Australia /? Joseph B. Birdsell Structure, event and ecology in Aboriginal Australia : a comparative viewpoint /? Aram A. Yengoyan Territoriality and the problem of demarcating sociocultural space /? Ronald M. Berndt Communication and change in mythology /? Kenneth Maddock Levels of organisation and communication in Aboriginal Australia /? D.H. Turner Boundaries and kinship systems in Aboriginal Australia /? F.G.G. Rose Tribes, languages and other boundaries in northeast Queensland /? R.M.W. Dixon Aboriginal language distribution in the Northern Territory /? E.P. Milliken.maps, b&w photographs, diagramsecology, environment, sociology, kinship systems, language distribution

The board game, titled The Storyteller, was created by Geelong Wathaurong/Ngarrindjeri man Glenn Shea, who was a youth justice worker at the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative when the game was created. The idea for The Storyteller evolved through Glenn's personal experience of working with Aboriginal adolescents and young people. Board game based on Indigenous education. White box with an oval shaped design on the front depicting the face of a man in red.The Storytellergames, board games, first nations, aboriginal, identity, place, belonging

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A

Olympic Torch relay in Stawell AreaPhoto Album red cover with black spine, Photgraph of lighting the cauldron in stawell for the 2000 Olympic torch relay 10 - Colour Photographs of various people carrying Olympic Torch in the Torch relay. 7041 Male Standing on road with Olympic Torch. People in Background 7041-1 Male Running with Olypic Torch, accompanied by a girl in blue, followed by a red car with a light bar and campervan. 7041-2 Two males lighting a torch from another, both dressed in white with blue patten on one side and two blue stripes on shorts. Policeman on motorcycle to leftwith red car and campervan in background. 7041-3 Two People running carryong a torch with a policeman on motorcycle beside them, followed by a car and a campervan. 7041-4 Two men light a torch, with two girls one on each side. With red car and campervan in background ( Different angle to 7041-2) 7041--5 Man holding The Olympic torch dressed in torch bearers uniform, standing on road People and vehicle in backkground 7041-6 Stella Young carrrying the Olympic torch 7041-7 Stella Young carrying the Olympic torch for her streach of the relay. 7041-8 Lighting the cauldron at entral Park Stawell 7041-9 International flags awaiting the torch at Halls Gap 7041-10 Aboriginal dance in front of Olympic torch with watching crowd.On Spine Olympic Torch Relay Stawell Halls Gap 2000 Photo Album 9 on a blue sticker on a white sticker 9A