Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary
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Event: 21 August 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Values, voice and choice:
Western Arrernte outstation engagement in the Northern Territory Intervention
Presented by: Annie Kennedy
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"This study examined Indigenous engagement with the
state through the experience of Western Arrernte men
and women as they encountered three of the reforms
introduced under the Commonwealth’s contentious
2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER). ... "
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-2/21_8...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: 29 June to 24 (or 25?) August 2013: Various venues around Canberra, ACT
Windsongs & Waterlines - Where is, what is Wreck Bay?
"The Wreck Bay Community is the only Aboriginal Community
reserve in the ACT and is a closed community.
This exhibition will enable the wider public a rare
opportunity to visit and better understand Wreck Bay’s story.
For traditional owners this exhibition is an opportunity to
speak about culture and country and how as a community
Wreck Bay has culturally survived the past 100 years."
Event details: http://www.canberra100.com.au/calendar/view/393/windsongs-and-waterlines...
Event details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXNmYX82ho&feature=youtu.be
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Event details: [scroll down page] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/actindnetwork/message/20973
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Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/cmag/exhibitions.html
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Event: 28 August 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
The mining boom and Indigenous communities
Presented by: Boyd Hunter
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"This paper examines the local change in Indigenous employment,
income and housing payments to identify any localised
'resource curse' for Indigenous communities and the
Australian population at large."
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-2/28_8...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: 4 September 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Education is the key, but what door does it open?
The values of education for very remote NT young people
Presented by: John Gunter
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"This paper examines the nature of educational and employment
outcomes for Aboriginal people in very remote Northern Territory.
In particular, the differences between those who speak a local
language and those who speak English are considered. ... "
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-2/04_9...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: Mon 5 August to Sat 7 September 2013: Canberra City, ACT
Multi media exhibition:
I Do Have a Belief II: Kevin Gilbert, 1933 - 1993
Civic Library, Civic Square, London Circuit, Canberra City
"A rare opportunity to view the broad talent of
20th-century Wiradjuri activist, artist, poet,
playwright and printmaker, Kevin Gilbert."
"View original manuscripts, galleys, photo mural,
website, videos, linocut prints, posters and e-books
- spreading the message about Aboriginal sovereignty,
using every platform available."
"I do have a belief in the future. It’s not hope.
I believe in this country because there is a spirit
in this country that nurtures life, that nurtures the
land, that nurtures the humanity in it..." Kevin Gilbert
A special lunchtime event will be held on Friday 9 August 2013
for International Day for the World’s Indigenous People.
Canberra 100 - Indigenous Focus: http://www.canberra100.com.au/programs/indigenous-focus/
Civic Library hours: http://www.library.act.gov.au/how_to_use_the_library/library_locations_a...
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Event: Ongoing until 14 September 2013: Canberra, ACT
Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait
"Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait is an exhibition
of striking photographs, stories and objects about the
lives, culture and identity of Torres Strait Islanders."
"People from islands across Australia's northern frontier
are depicted in David Callow's portraits. They compare
current and traditional ways and practices and reflect on
changes that have occurred in the Torres Strait during
their lives."
National Museum of Australia
Event details: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/bipotaim/home
Event details: http://www.theblackbook.com.au/whatson_detail.asp?id=705&si=0&mi=8&yi=2013
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Event: 25 September 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Insights for Indigenous policy from the applied behavioural sciences
Presented by: Nick Biddle
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"Policy related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous)
Australians is one example in Australia of an area where insights
from the applied behavioural sciences has the potential to
improve the quality of policy decisions. ... "
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/node/5611
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: 2 October 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
The 'real economy' and the 'hybrid economy':
Rival visions of Indigenous economic development and cultural survival
Presented by: Katherine Curchin
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"In the contemporary debate on how to address the poverty and
disadvantage of Indigenous Australians living in remote regions,
Noel Pearson and Jon Altman are two of the central
intellectual figures. ... This paper compares Pearson and
Altman’s rival visions of Indigenous economic development. ... "
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-2/02_1...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: 9 October 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Recognition and emotional distancing at Indigenous Heritage Sites:
Findings of visitor interviews
Presented by: Laurajane Smith
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"The presentation will outline the various ways in which
other visitors disengage from Indigenous history and culture
to emotionally distance themselves and close down the
possibilities of recognition and acknowledgement.
Tied into this latter response is a reluctance to engage in
recognition of the visitor’s own identity as an inheritor
of colonial legacies. ... "
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-2/09_1...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: 30 October 2013: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Policy change in remote Indigenous housing and employment:
Census evidence from the Northern Territory and elsewhere
Presented by: William Sanders
CAEPR Seminar
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Australian National University
"Since 2007, the Commonwealth government has initiated major policy
and program change in remote Indigenous housing and employment,
primarily and directly in the Northern Territory but also, more indirectly,
elsewhere. In conjunction with a major housing construction and
refurbishment program, Indigenous community rental housing built in
the previous three decades has been pushed to change to a
public rental model. A similarly long running Commonwealth
Indigenous ‘workfare’ program, the Community Development Employment
Projects (CDEP) Scheme, has also been pushed to change,
from a wages-for-part-time-employment model to an
activity-for-income-support model. ... "
Event details: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/13/Seminar-Topics%E2%80%94Series-2/30_1...
Current CAEPR seminars: http://caepr.anu.edu.au/Seminars/seminars.php
Event: Ongoing: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others
developed different strategies to survive this
new and hostile presence."
"Here we present four of these stories."
National Museum of Australia
Event details: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/first_australians/resistance
See also:
ANTaR ACT Events
Coming Events - put them in your diary now!
http://antaract.wordpress.com/events/
Canberra 100 - Indigenous Focus
Celebrate Canberra's 100th Birthday in 2013
Upcoming Events
http://www.canberra100.com.au/programs/indigenous-focus/
Winter and spring calendar of events
Centenary of Canberra celebrates first Australians
[scroll down page of attachment] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/actindnetwork/message/20964
Current Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Exhibitions - July-August in Canberra
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/actindnetwork/message/20973
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