Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary
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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: Sat 5 October 2013: Byron Bay, NSW
Boomerang Festival
Speaker: Larissa Behrendt
"Larissa is the Professor of Law and Director of
Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of
Learning at UTS and a practicing barrister.
Award winning novelist she has also published
numerous text books on Indigenous legal issues
and written on human rights, property law, Indigenous
rights, dispute resolution and Aboriginal women’s issues."
Event details: http://www.boomerangfestival.com.au/schedule/detail.aspx?ArtistID=33
Speakers: http://www.boomerangfestival.com.au/schedule/?DayID=5
Boomerang Festival: http://www.boomerangfestival.com.au/
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: 25, 26 October 2013: Canberra, ACT
Biami
"Biami by Duncan Smith and Maitland Schnaars
is a new interactive theatre and dance performance ...
It tells the story of the creation of our Australian
landscape by the Wiradjuri people using
puppets, masks and a few surprises."
Event details: http://www.canberra100.com.au/calendar/view/1890/biami/
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
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