By Franny Peters-Little
Dear Folks,
For anyone interested in Aboriginal history and the Australian Constitution, here is an article I wrote about the 'memory' of the 1967 Referendum.
Today there are a lot of people divided over whether the 1967 Referendum was a good thing or a waste of time, which is strangely the sort of debate some have with the current issue of the Australian Constitution.
You can read the article at http://epress.anu.edu.au/aborig_history/passionate/pdf/ch04.pdf
OR
You can download the whole book for FREE at http://epress.anu.edu.au/aborig_history/passionate/pdf/whole.pdf
Tell your friends to download the book for FREE ... enjoy!
Other chapters in the book are;
1. The country has another past: Queensland and the History Wars by Raymond Evans
2. ‘Hard evidence’: the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania by Lyndall Ryan
3. Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted – Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia by John Docker
4. Idle men: the eighteenth-century roots of the Indigenous indolence myth by Shino Konishi
5. ‘These unoffending people’: myth, history and the idea of Aboriginal resistance in David Collins’ Account of the English Colony in New South Wales by Rachel Standfield
6. Demythologising Flynn, with Love: contesting missionaries in Central Australia in the twentieth century by David Trudinger
7. Paul Robeson’s visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960 by Ann Curthoys
8. Using poetry to capture the Aboriginal voice in oral history transcripts by Lorina Barker
9. Making a debut: myths, memories and mimesis by Anna Cole
10. Identity and identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos by Vanessa Castejon
11. Urban Aboriginal ceremony: when seeing is not believing by Kristina Everett
12. Island Home Country: working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania by Jeni Thornley
13. Reconciliation without history: state crime and state punishment in Chile and Australia by Peter Read
14. Overheard – conversations of a museum curator by Jay Arthur
15. On the significance of saying ‘sorry’: Apology and Reconciliation in Australia by Isabelle Auguste.