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untitled (website Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) )Abbott, CLA, 97, 182 Aboriginal apprentices, see apprenticeship scheme Aboriginal Citizenship Committee, 57, 74 Aboriginal Lands Trust, 123 Aboriginal reserves, revocation of, 4 Aboriginal rights campaign ( 1930s) , 58 Indigenous fight for, 175 Aboriginal...
Compiled by Veronica Falko, AIATSIS Library, June 2006http:// www. gov. au/ 1 Selected Bibliography of materials on theWiradjuri Language and People held in the AIATSIS Library Table of Contents Books.........................................................
htm Selected Bibliography of material on theBundjalung / Banjalang language and people held in the AIATSIS Library Books.........................................................................................................................................
89- 99 Language/ Group: Yidiny / Yidindji language (Y117) (Qld SE55- 06) Language/ Group: Yidiny / Yidindji people (Y117) (Qld SE55- 06) Local call number: B B972. htm 4 Language/ Group: Yidiny / Yidindji language (Y117) (Qld SE55- 06) Language/ Group: ...
New Gold Mountain is a work of historical fiction set in the mid 1800s and is the third novel in the saga of an Australian Colonial family who run a million acre cattle property in New South Wales. When Caroline Warre discovers gold in a creek on the fam...
Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
Pathways& rotocols a film mmaker s guid de to work king with Indigenous people, cult tu ure and concepts terri Janke 2 ContentsPreface. 6 1. Introduction....
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yuimenubar { background: none; border: none; font-size: 100% ! Dated 1904, it was called ‘Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales and Victoria’. The Two Worlds of Jimmie Barker is the autobiographical narrative that Jan...
If Australia does not move to protect its folk cultural resources others will exploit them. Developing principles and procedures for protecting and developing folk cultural resources that can be applied nationally, including by state governments, and int...
Australian Folklore (1987 -) The journal of Australian folklore studies, published by the Australian Folklore Association. Davey, G. Beed, Presentation and Paradox: Folklore and Tourism, WA Folklore Archive, Curtin University, Applied Folklore Research St...
Stories of bunyips stopped colonial children wandering off into the bush. Nineteenth-century parents in Australia used the story of the bunyip to good effect. The average bush youngster has a horror of darkness, and talks in awe-struck whispers of hairy ...
How two 1940s conservative Australian poets tried to mock modernism by submitting the works of fake poet Ern Malley to Max Harris, editor of Angry Penguins literary magazine. In 1940s Australia, Max Harris was a young genius poet and writer - an outspoke...
Reed & Harris was the Melbourne publishing company of John Reed and Max Harris. Not that Reed & Harris stopped at Australians. Artist Sidney Nolan was very much a part of the Reed & Harris team, producing cover illustrations for many of the books. ...
This is the region of the Northern Territory that offers enormous landscapes, rugged desert terrain, rock canyons, dry creek beds, ghost gums, Aboriginal dreamtime folklore and sacred sites. The most popular red centre attractions are covered by Alice Sp...
This huge expanse of the Northern Territory takes in the Tanami Desert in the west and sweeps across to the large cattle stations of the Barkley Tableland in the east. Northern Territory Tableland - Places of Interest Tennant Creek is a mining town and t...
Following further comment and consideration, they were adopted at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library Resource Network (ATSILRN) Conference in December 1994. Libraries, archives and information services need to recognise that their collecti...
Theme: MemoriesName of project:Woorabinda storiesPublisher:Brisbane : State Library of QueenslandDate created:2005-10Conditions of use: This material is subject to copyright. For further information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/legals.htm >Conditions of Use...
Kamal Puri outlines the vulnerability of Aboriginal cultural expression to exploitation and debasement and the inadequacies in the protections afforded to expressions of Aboriginal 'folklore' by the existing Copyright Act. Puri notes that way back in 198...
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