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Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2010
'Whose Ethics?':Codifying and enacting ethics in research settings Bringing ethics up to date? A review of the AIATSIS ethical guidelines Michael Davis (Independent Academic) A revision of the AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies was carried out during 2009-10. The purpose of the revision was to bring the Guidelines up to date in light of a range of critical developments that have occurred in Indigenous rights, research and knowledge management since the previous version of the Guidelines was released in 2000. In this paper I present an outline of these developments, and briefly discuss the review process. I argue that the review, and the developments that it responded to, have highlighted that ethical research needs to be thought about more as a type of behaviour and practice between engaged participants, and less as an institutionalised, document-focused and prescriptive approach. The arrogance of ethnography: Managing anthropological research knowledge Sarah Holcombe (ANU) The ethnographic method is a core feature of anthropological practice. This locally intensive research enables insight into local praxis and culturally relative practices that would otherwise not be possible. Indeed, empathetic engagement is only possible in this close and intimate encounter. However, this paper argues that this method can also provide the practitioner with a false sense of his or her own knowing and expertise and, indeed, with arrogance. And the boundaries between the anthropologist as knowledge sink - cultural translator and interpreter - and the knowledge of the local knowledge owners can become opaque. Globalisation and the knowledge ?commons?, exemplified by Google, also highlight the increasing complexities in this area of the governance and ownership of knowledge. Our stronghold of working in remote areas and/or with marginalised groups places us at the forefront of negotiating the multiple new technological knowledge spaces that are opening up in the form of Indigenous websites and knowledge centres in these areas. Anthropology is not immune from the increasing awareness of the limitations and risks of the intellectual property regime for protecting or managing Indigenous knowledge. The relevance of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in opening up a ?rights-based? discourse, especially in the area of knowledge ownership, brings these issues to the fore. For anthropology to remain relevant, we have to engage locally with these global discourses. This paper begins to traverse some of this ground. Protocols: Devices for translating moralities, controlling knowledge and defining actors in Indigenous research, and critical ethical reflection Margaret Raven (Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP), Murdoch University) Protocols are devices that act to assist with ethical research behaviour in Indigenous research contexts. Protocols also attempt to play a mediating role in the power and control inherent in research. While the development of bureaucratically derived protocols is on the increase, critiques and review of protocols have been undertaken in an ad hoc manner and in the absence of an overarching ethical framework or standard. Additionally, actors implicated in research networks are seldom theorised. This paper sketches out a typology of research characters and the different moral positioning that each of them plays in the research game. It argues that by understanding the ways actors enact research protocols we are better able to understand what protocols are, and how they seek to build ethical research practices. Ethics and research: Dilemmas raised in managing research collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander materials Grace Koch (AIATSIS) This paper examines some of the ethical dilemmas for the proper management of research collections of Indigenous cultural materials, concentrating upon the use of such material for Native Title purposes. It refers directly to a number of points in the draft of the revised AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies and draws upon both actual and hypothetical examples of issues that may arise when requests are made for Indigenous material. Specific concerns about ethical practices in collecting data and the subsequent control of access to both the data itself and to published works based upon it are raised within the context of several types of collections, including those held by AIATSIS and by Native Title Representative Bodies. Ethics or social justice? Heritage and the politics of recognition Laurajane Smith (ANU) Nancy Fraser?s model of the politics of recognition is used to examine how ethical practices are interconnected with wider struggles for recognition and social justice. This paper focuses on the concept of 'heritage' and the way it is often uncritically linked to 'identity' to illustrate how expert knowledge can become implicated in struggles for recognition. The consequences of this for ethical practice and for rethinking the role of expertise, professional discourses and disciplinary identity are discussed. The ethics of teaching from country Michael Christie (CDU), with the assistance of Yi?iya Guyula, Kathy Gotha and Dh�?gal Gurruwiwi The 'Teaching from Country' program provided the opportunity and the funding for Yol?u (north-east Arnhem Land Aboriginal) knowledge authorities to participate actively in the academic teaching of their languages and cultures from their remote homeland centres using new digital technologies. As two knowledge systems and their practices came to work together, so too did two divergent epistemologies and metaphysics, and challenges to our understandings of our ethical behaviour. This paper uses an examination of the philosophical and pedagogical work of the Yol?u Elders and their students to reflect upon ethical teaching and research in postcolonial knowledge practices. Closing the gaps in and through Indigenous health research: Guidelines, processes and practices Pat Dudgeon (UWA), Kerrie Kelly (Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association) and Roz Walker (UWA) Research in Aboriginal contexts remains a vexed issue given the ongoing inequities and injustices in Indigenous health. It is widely accepted that good research providing a sound evidence base is critical to closing the gap in Aboriginal health and wellbeing outcomes. However, key contemporary research issues still remain regarding how that research is prioritised, carried out, disseminated and translated so that Aboriginal people are the main beneficiaries of the research in every sense. It is widely acknowledged that, historically, research on Indigenous groups by non-Indigenous researchers has benefited the careers and reputations of researchers, often with little benefit and considerably more harm for Indigenous peoples in Australia and internationally. This paper argues that genuine collaborative and equal partnerships in Indigenous health research are critical to enable Aboriginal and Torres Islander people to determine the solutions to close the gap on many contemporary health issues. It suggests that greater recognition of research methodologies, such as community participatory action research, is necessary to ensure that Aboriginal people have control of, or significant input into, determining the Indigenous health research agenda at all levels. This can occur at a national level, such as through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Road Map on Indigenous research priorities (RAWG 2002), and at a local level through the development of structural mechanisms and processes, including research ethics committees? research protocols to hold researchers accountable to the NHMRC ethical guidelines and values which recognise Indigenous culture in all aspects of research. Researching on Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar: Methodologies for positive transformation Steve Hemming (Flinders University) , Daryle Rigney (Flinders University) and Shaun Berg (Berg Lawyers) Ngarrindjeri engagement with cultural and natural resource management over the past decade provides a useful case study for examining the relationship between research, colonialism and improved Indigenous wellbeing. The Ngarrindjeri nation is located in south-eastern Australia, a ?white? space framed by Aboriginalist myths of cultural extinction recycled through burgeoning heritage, Native Title, natural resource management ?industries?. Research is a central element of this network of intrusive interests and colonising practices. Government management regimes such as natural resource management draw upon the research and business sectors to form complex alliances to access funds to support their research, monitoring, policy development, management and on-ground works programs. We argue that understanding the political and ethical location of research in this contemporary management landscape is crucial to any assessment of the potential positive contribution of research to 'Bridging the Gap' or improving Indigenous wellbeing. Recognition that research conducted on Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar (country/body/spirit) has impacts on Ngarrindjeri and that Ngarrindjeri have a right and responsibility to care for their lands and waters are important platforms for any just or ethical research. Ngarrindjeri have linked these rights and responsibilities to long-term community development focused on Ngarrindjeri capacity building and shifts in Ngarrindjeri power in programs designed to research and manage Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar. Research agreements that protect Ngarrindjeri interests, including cultural knowledge and intellectual property, are crucial elements in these shifts in power. A preliminary review of ethics resources, with particular focus on those available online from Indigenous organisations in WA, NT and Qld Sarah Holcombe (ANU) and Natalia Gould (La Trobe University) In light of a growing interest in Indigenous knowledge, this preliminary review maps the forms and contents of some existing resources and processes currently available and under development in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia, along with those enacted through several cross-jurisdictional initiatives. A significant majority of ethics resources have been developed in response to a growing interest in the application of Indigenous knowledge in land and natural resource management. The aim of these resources is to ?manage? (i.e. protect and maintain) Indigenous knowledge by ensuring ethical engagement with the knowledge holders. Case studies are drawn on from each jurisdiction to illustrate both the diversity and commonality in the approach to managing this intercultural engagement. Such resources include protocols, guidelines, memorandums of understanding, research agreements and strategic plans. In conducting this review we encourage greater awareness of the range of approaches in practice and under development today, while emphasising that systematic, localised processes for establishing these mechanisms is of fundamental importance to ensuring equitable collaboration. Likewise, making available a range of ethics tools and resources also enables the sharing of the local and regional initiatives in this very dynamic area of Indigenous knowledge rights.b&w photographs, colour photographsngarrindjeri, ethics, ethnography, indigenous research, social justice, indigenous health -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Book, Bruce Pascoe et al, Wathaurong : the people who said no, 2003
The Wathaurong people of South Western Victoria said no to European invasion. Learn about this heroic resistance to the occupation of their lands. Can white and black live together or must we be always at war? The answer can only be given by young Australians. Includes a comprehensive historical timeline.maps, colour illustrations, b&w illustrations, colour photographs, word listswathaurong, wadtharung, port philllip bay, western port bay, lorne, south west victoria, battle creek, aire river, werribee, ballarat, wathaurong aboriginal cooperative, coast action, koori studies, john batman, william buckley, aboriginal studies policy, secondary school education, hissing swan, victorian history -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Stone, Sharman N, Aborigines in white Australia : a documentary history of the attitudes affecting official policy and the Australian Aborigine, 1697-1973, 1974
Selections from official published sources concerning government policy towards Aborigines; early explorers accounts; newspaper articles and letters illustrating racial attitudes to Aborigines.253 p. : ill. ; list of plates; index; bibliography; 24 cm.Selections from official published sources concerning government policy towards Aborigines; early explorers accounts; newspaper articles and letters illustrating racial attitudes to Aborigines.aborigines. race relations. australia, 1697-1973. readings from contemporary sources | aboriginal australians -- government relations. | australia -- history -- sources. | settlement and contacts - explorers | government policy - assimilation | government policy - initial period and protectionism | government policy - integration | race relations - racism - stereotyping -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Roberts, Janine, From Massacres to mining. The colonization of Aboriginal Australia, 1978
White colonisation of Australia; violent conflict; establishment of reserves; current situation legal oppression in Queensland; racism and discrimination; poverty, malnutrition and disease; government policy; land rights; mining on Aboriginal land; Aboriginal struggle for rights.212 P.; appendices; maps; plates; ill.; footnotes; bib.; refs.; figs.; 21 cm.White colonisation of Australia; violent conflict; establishment of reserves; current situation legal oppression in Queensland; racism and discrimination; poverty, malnutrition and disease; government policy; land rights; mining on Aboriginal land; Aboriginal struggle for rights.aboriginal australians -- social conditions. | aboriginal australians -- government relations. | aboriginal australians -- land tenure. | colonisation | economics - income - poverty and low income | government policy | health - nutrition disorders | land rights - mining industry | land rights - excisions and leases - mining leases | race relations - violent - massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - to 1900 | race relations - racial discrimination - legislative -
Unions Ballarat
Menzies & Churchill at war : a controversial new account of the 1941 struggle for power (Don Woodward collection), Day, David, 1987
The book focusses upon the differences between Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Robert Menzies about strategies in WWII. The author reports that Menzies' attempt to displace Churchill led to Menzies' political demise.Significant to foreign policy, history of WWII and politics in Australia and the United Kingdom.Book; 271 pages. Cover: grey background; black and white picture of Menzies and Churchill; gold and white lettering; author's name and title. btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, menzies, bob, menzies, r, world war ii, wwii, churchill, sir winston, menzies, sir robert, churchill, winston, menzies, robert, diplomatic relations, foreign relations, history - united kingdom, history - australia, day, david, hitler, adolf -
Unions Ballarat
Labor Essays 1983, Reeves, John, 1983
Annual collection of essays. Policies and programs for the Labor Government.Significant to ALP future planning and policy platform. Copy 2 forms part of the D.J. Spiers Collection.Paper; book. Cover: lilac, white and black. Front cover: names of editors and contributors, title. Title page: in black ink, "D.J. Spiers". (In copy 2.)btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, politics, government -
Unions Ballarat
Labor Essays 1998: New Visions for Government, Jungwirth, Gary, 1998
Annual labor essays periodical. Essayists include leaders Kim Beazley and Gareth Evans, Mark Latham and Lindsay Tanner, Cheryl Kernot and Mary Delahunty, ACTU President Jennie George, Simon Crean and Bob McMullan, and John Button. Theme: New Visions for Government.Relevant to ALP forward planning and policy platform.Paper; book; black, white and blue cover.Front cover: editors' name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, alp, australian labor party, government, parliament, leadership -
Unions Ballarat
Secrets of State: A Detailed Assessment of the Book They Banned, Munster, George, 1982
Secret (leaked) government documents dealing with East Timor, US military bases in Australia, the Soviet Navy in the Indian Ocean, the Shah’s regime in Iran and the Vietnam War. Originally published as "Documents on Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1968-1975" - this edition was previously banned and all unsold copies were destroyed by the government.Significant to Australian foreign relations in the period 1968-1975.Paper; book. Front cover: black background; pictures of newspapers and a book; red and white text.Front cover: author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, east timor, us military bases, soviet navy, vietnam, iran, vietnam war, documents on australian defence and foreign policy, government leaks, shah of iran -
Unions Ballarat
Among the barbarians, Sheehan, Paul, 1998
A critical appraisal of Australia's immigration policies and multiculturalism.Relevant to Australian culture and immigration. The book was written in 1998.Paper; book. Cover: White with red, black and white writing. Picture of a burning leaf. Round sticker: "The phenomenal no.1 bestseller".Front cover: author name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, immigration, social history, national culture -
Unions Ballarat
Understanding multiculturalism and Australian identity, Theophanous, Andrew, 1995
A collection of speeches and papers about multiculturalism in Australia by Andrew Theophanous. Includes some analysis of foreign policy, education, media, and equity policy.Pertinent to national identity in Australia. The author, Andrew Theophanous, was an ALP member of parliament and served as Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister, Paul Keating.Paper; book. Front cover: yellow, black and white; map of Australia with black illustrations; black text.Front cover: descriptors to the illustrations; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, speeches - andrew theophanous, papers - andrew theophanous, foreign policy, foreign relations, education, media, social equity, race relations, multiculturalism, citizenship, national identity, minorities - australia, australian labor party, alp -
Unions Ballarat
Triumph and demise: the broken promise of a labor generation, Kelly, Paul, 2014
The book principally provides an account of the Rudd-Gillard government years (2007-2013), including the conflicts that arose and the ultimate victory of the Abbott Coalition government.Significant to governance of Australia and its party politics. Especially pertinent to Labor Party history during the period 2007-2013.Paperback book. Front cover: red background; black and white lettering. Author and title and media comment. Back cover: white background; red and black text. ballarat trades hall, ballarat regional trades and labour council, btlc, kelly, paul, paul kelly, deputy prime minister, prime minister, politicians, politics and government, elections, gillard, julia, rudd, kevin, abbott, tony, howard, john, liberal party australia, australian labor party, greens party, policy, parliament -
Unions Ballarat
Women and children first : an outline of a population policy for Australia, Wallace, Victor Hugo, 1946
Written in 1946, the author presents ways to encourage population increase in Australia. Relevant to social choices and customs in the 1940s.Paper; book. Front cover: red and white with a map of Australia.Front cover: author and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, birth control, population, social policy, social customs, contraception -
Unions Ballarat
Work on paper - The Australian Labour Market (D.J. Spiers Collection)
Australian industrial relations and unionism. Arbitration, enterprise bargaining, unemployment/employment, policy, equal pay.Australian industrial relations and unionism.Paper; book. Front cover: yellow background; author's name and title; black and blue lettering; black and white blurry photograph.ballarat trades and labour council, btlc, industrial relations, employment, wages, trade unions, unemployment -
Unions Ballarat
Book - Australian Education Review No. 24: Teacher Unionism in the 1980s - Four Perspectives (D.J. Spiers Collection), Spaull, Andrew et al, 1986
About teacher unions in Australia: policy; industrial relations; politics. Industrial relations - historical value. Significant to understanding the role and history of trade unions in Australia and workplace relations. Therefore directly relevant to the modus operandi of Ballarat Trades Hall.Book; paper.Front cover: authors' names and title. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, trade unions - education, australian education union - aeu, industrial relations -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph - Photo, Conference, Interstate Visitors, 1973
Four gentlemen at a afternoon tea event, presumably two are visiting Melbourne. Two have Legacy name tags, one says "Frank Meldrum, Melbourne". Other names and date unknown. It is possible it was the Legacy Conference held in Melbourne in 1973 which was the Golden Jubilee year, celebrating 50 years of Legacy. The general aim of the Australia-wide conferences was an exchange of ideas and methods of carrying out Legacy functions, and to form general policy for cooperation between clubs and groups. In 1973 it was also a celebration of their first 50 years.A record of a Legatee event hosting interstate visitors for a Legacy Conference.Black and white photo of 4 Legatees at an event.Front of photo has a typed label saying: "Interstate Visitors". The back "Interstate Guests" in black ink. Stamped "This Photograph is the compliments of the Ministry of Tourism, Government of Victoria. Please acknowledge / Photo: Michael Cheshire"golden jubilee, conference, legatee event -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: CHINESE ON THE GOLD FIELDS, c1800s
Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads: Thus, well before the end of the nineteenth century, the Australian colonies were united in a policy of restricting Chinese and all coloured immigration. This question was discussed at many intercolonial conferences, and was one of the arguments of the advocates of Federation. When the federation was established (1901) - and by this time the rise of Japan was a factor in the situation - ''White Australia'' was adopted as a basis of the immigration policy of the Commonwealth. Markings: 1. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - River Control in New Zealand and Victoria, 1941
This book was commissioned by the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission on the recommendation of Frank E. Old, Minister of Water Supply to meet the need for a comprehensive and progressive policy of river improvement. This book was presented to Milton King, the father of the donor Neville King.Khaki coloured hard cover book. 131 pp. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. Author H.G.Strom, BCE, AMIE. Australia. Neville King CollectionM R King 29/08/41 written in pencil inside the front cover.water supply, rivers, h g strom -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Magazine, Shennan Publishing & Publicity, "Special 12th Anniversary Issue" - Truck & Bus Transportation - July 1948, 1948
Yields information about Australian transport history, transport at the time of publication and the development of buses and the Ansett organisation.Large format 208 page , July 1948 issue of Truck and Bus Transportation with colour cover, fold out and advertisements, colour printing, articles on buses, trucks, cable trams, Australian Transport, personnel in industry, Ansett, executives - special 12 the anniversary issue. See photocopy of title and contents pages with item notes. Notes on Truck & Bus Transportation - Special Anniversary Issue - July 1948, with particular relevance to BTM Archives Advertisements: White Bus Co - similarity to the US PCC Tram - inside front cover Ansett's and Ansair - p131 AC buses - p162 Articles: Has Australia's Railways Reach the Doldrums? - p38 Modem Street Transit Authorities Announce Development Policy - p42 (includes photos of Sydney, Adelaide Glenelg H class, Bourke St, trams etc, being replaced by buses) These were the Events that made our Headlines (war years - photos included - p61 Riding the Rattlers behind Horses, Ropes and Billies - cable trams, horse and steam trams p66. - demise of Melbourne cable cars. Tracing the development of the Motor Bus in Aust. - p73. Australian Transport Administrations - whose , photos, responsibilities, liquid fuel control (petrol rationing), Australian Road Transport Associations, executives etc. - pl16 onwards Ansett organisation - p 1 72 onwards trams, tramways, trucks, buses, cable trams, road transport -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Book, Sydney University Press, Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86, 1979
General account of pre-contact Aborigines; white colonisation and violent conflict; racial attitudes of early settlers; native police; government policy; mission work; foundation of reserves; Coranderrk.Sydney : Sydney University Press, 1979 viii,227p., 12p. of plates : maps ; 22cm. non-fictionGeneral account of pre-contact Aborigines; white colonisation and violent conflict; racial attitudes of early settlers; native police; government policy; mission work; foundation of reserves; Coranderrk.aboriginal australians -- victoria -- treatment -- history., aboriginal and torres straight islander -
Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation
Australian Nursing Federation OH&S campaign badge, [1998-2009]
Button distributed to and worn by Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) members to promote safe movement of patients to reduce workplace injury. The Australian Nursing Federation Victorian Branch implemented the 'No Lifting' (now 'safe patient handling') policy in March 1998. The aim of the policy was to introduce in Victorian healthcare settings an approach to patient handling whereby the manual lifting of patients would be eliminated or minimised wherever possible. This Branch policy and strategies to implement it were a response to high incidence of back pain and workplace injury amongst nurses. The 'No Lifting' policy was accompanied by various conferences and expos to discuss harm minimisation strategies throughout 1998-2009, suggesting this badge is from this period.Circular red, black and white plastic badge. Silver metal, plastic-coated, with safety pin fastener adhered to back. Badge printed with 'I am a No Lifting Nurse', 'Caring for you' and the ANF [Australian Nursing Federation] logo.nurses, nursing, back injuries, occupational health and safety, patient handling, trade unions, professional bodies, workplace injury, accident prevention, badges, buttons, pins, changing healthcare practice, australian nursing federation -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph, Conference in Perth 1948, 1948
The photo shows a group of Legatees who attended the Legacy Club Conference held in Perth in September 1948. The three men at the front are Legatees Stan Savige on left and Bill Perrin in the centre. Other names are not known. Legatee Bill Perrin had been President in 1945 and had just been elected to succeed Legatee Savige as the Chairman of the Co-ordinating Council. The Legacy conference was held periodically and allowed Legatees from across Australia to gather together. The aim of the annual conference was an exchange of ideas and methods of carrying out Legacy functions, and to form general policy for cooperation between clubs and groups.These men were some of the founders and early members of Legacy throughout Australia and had fought in the first World War. Black and white photo x 2 of a group of Legatees at the Legacy conference in Perth.Stamped with copyright stamp of W.A. Newspapers in purple ink. Hand-written on reverse: 'Legacy Club Conference Perth' in pencil. legatee event, conference -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph, Conference in Morwell 1985, 1985
The photo shows a gathering of people including Legatees, at a service in Morwell. The photos were in an envelope labelled 'From Annual Conference Morwell 1985'. The Legacy conference was held periodically and allowed Legatees from across Australia to gather together. The aim of the annual conference was an exchange of ideas and methods of carrying out Legacy functions, and to form general policy for cooperation between clubs and groups.A record of a service of remembrance in Morwell during a Legacy conference.Black and white photo x 3 of a service at a war memorial during a Legacy conference in Morwell in 1985.Handwritten on reverse ' W2567' 'W2575' and 'N2576'.legatee event, conference -
Merri-bek City Council
Work on paper - Charcoal and pages from Aboriginal Words and Place Names, Jenna Lee, Without us, 2022
Jenna Lee dissects and reconstructs colonial 'Indigenous dictionaries' and embeds the works with new cultural meaning. Long obsessed with the duality of the destructive and healing properties that fire can yield, this element has been applied to the paper in the forms of burning and mark-making. In Without Us, Lee uses charcoal to conceal the text on the page, viewing this process as a ritualistic act of reclaiming and honouring Indigenous heritage while challenging the oppressive legacies of colonialism. Lee explains in Art Guide (2022), ‘These books in particular [used to create the proposed works] are Aboriginal language dictionaries—but there’s no such thing as “Aboriginal language”. There are hundreds of languages. The dictionary just presents words, with no reference to where they came from. It was specifically published by collating compendiums from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, with the purpose to give [non-Indigenous] people pleasant sounding Aboriginal words to name children, houses and boats. And yet the first things that were taken from us was our language, children, land and water. And the reason our words were so widely written down was because [white Australians] were trying to eradicate us. They thought we were going extinct. The deeper you get into it, the darker it gets. But the purpose of my work is to take those horrible things and cast them as something beautiful.’Framed artwork -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Digital Photograph, Alan King, Garden Hill, Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, Kangaroo Ground, 3 February 2008
The original house was built around 1850 was one of Kangaroo Ground's earliest homes, part of which remains today. Built by Scottish farmer Andrew Harkness who acquired the property in 1849 at the top of the hill with magnificent panoramic views as far as Kinglake, the same year he married Sarah Oswin. The property was known as Garden Hill from at least 1865. Andrew and Sarah had four sons and five daughters. Harkness was a founder of the Kangaroo Ground School and one of the first to suggest establishing the Eltham District Road Board (1858-71) of which he was a member, the pre-cursor to the Shire of Eltham (1871-1994). He was also a Trustee of the Kangaroo Ground Cemetery. His daughter Fanny married farmer Alexander White who purchased the property in 1893. Alexander White died in 1906 and ownership transferred to Fanny White. Son, Robert White was a Councillor of the Shire of Eltham at the time the Shire acquired two acres of land on the adjacent property from the Mess brothers for the creation of the Shire of Eltham Memorial Park (1921) in which the Shire of Eltham War Memoirial tower was erected (1926). Fanny White donated a small section of land from the Garden Hill property to facilitate entry access to the park. The White family sold the property to Sir Herbert Gepp in 1925. Covered under Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then / Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p29 Garden Hill, on Yarra Glen Road, Kangaroo Ground, near the War Memorial is well named. The old house and gardens overlook a magnificent panorama extending to Kinglake. The original house, built around 1850, was one of Kangaroo Ground’s earliest, and part of it remains in today’s timber house. The house was built by the early and prominent settler Andrew Harkness. Later it was occupied for a long time by Sir Herbert Gepp, renowned Australia wide.1 Harkness and Gepp are buried in the Kangaroo Ground Cemetery. Scottish farmer Harkness, who was born in 1817, acquired this property in 18492 and he and his family occupied it until the early 1920s. Harkness cleared its 152 acres (61.4 ha), fenced it and grazed sheep and cattle. Harkness proved a valuable community member. When only ten families lived in the district, he and other settlers set up a school in 1852, with Andrew Ross as the first teacher. Harkness was also one of the first to suggest establishing the Eltham District Road Board, of which he was a member for around 15 years. He was also a trustee of the Kangaroo Ground Cemetery. Harkness married in 1854 and had four sons and five daughters. The first part of the timber house he built included a kitchen-living room and a parlor. The living room’s large fireplace was bricked-in and modernised in 1940. Beside it is the old baker’s oven with its original iron door replaced by a wooden one. It is thought two wattle-and-daub huts, used for a bedroom and bathroom, were built to the west. Harkness’ son-in-law, farmer Alexander White, who had seven sons, bought the property in 1893. Harkness’ grand-daughter Flora married Ewen Cameron who became Minister for Health and was later knighted; he was not related to Ewen Hugh Cameron, a Member of the Legislative Assembly. In 1923 the White family sold the property, called Kilby Park, to Sir Herbert Gepp, who renamed it Garden Hill. Gepp used the property, which was still on the original New South Wales title, as a hobby farm. Robert White stayed on to manage the farm for a while, living in a house on the property. Gepp was born in 1877 and at 16 years began working as a junior chemist with the Australian Explosives and Chemical Company at Deer Park near Melbourne. Gepp was a pioneer in applying enlightened labour policies in industry. He initiated the Broken Hill Progress Association, to improve living conditions. It laid the ground work for the welfare schemes pursued by companies after World War One. During the mid 20th century Gepp was the most prominent liberal thinker associated with conservative politics. As a friend of Prime Minister John Curtin, he contributed to post-war reconstruction. Gepp returned to private industry and retired in 1950. Gepp made significant contributions to the solution of the great metallurgical problems of the mining industry. He was an advocate of the role of science in industry, government and the economy and helped to establish several organizations including the CSIR and the Institute of Public Affairs.3 After Sir Herbert died in 1954 his son Orwell continued to farm the property part-time. When Lady Gepp died in 1963, the land was divided among the five children, although Orwell continued to farm it as a hobby. In 1966, a daughter, Mardi Gething, now married, settled in the house. Another daughter, Kathleen, built her house close by on the property. After the Board of Works designated the property as part of a reserve for a possible reservoir, the family sold all, except the minimum 20 acres allowed, to the Board in the 1970s. Orwell then leased what was the family property from the Board to continue grazing. The two sisters and brother continued to live on the property.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, kangaroo ground -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Painting - Watercolour, Robert Thomas Miller, The Busy Tug Boat, c. 2000
Robert Thomas Miller Born in Melbourne in 1916 Studied commercial art at RMIT and for many years worked as graphic designer and design director at ACI Ltd. Member of the Victorian Artists's Society (Council member since 1965), Australian Guild of Realist Artists, Old Water Colour Society Club (past president), Australian Watercolour Institute, Hughesdale Arts Group (past president), Burnie (Tas.) Coastal Art Group. His watercolours have won over 40 major awards, including Victorian Artists' Society, 1973 Artist of the Year Award, and the Rotary Club of Camberwell Watercolour Prize (twice). Represented in many Australian collections both public and private.Maritime ArtRobert T. Miller, Mission to Seafarers Victoria CollectionContemporary framed in limed wood, mounted and glazed watercolour painting by R.T. MILLER in portrait format. Mat mount is white. Image features freighter with black hull at mooring in dockland setting; wire hanging systemInterpretation label adhered to back, includes photographic portrait of the artist Value on label Signature M4 in black markermarine painting, port melbourne, artwork, docklands, tug boat, robert thomas miller, robert t. miller, r.t. miller, artwork-paintings, tugboat