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Join us on the journey to help bring about a reconciled Victoria – read all the latest news and event information from across the state here.

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July eNews


Cabbe melemung’il (Woi wurung greeting)

The month following National Reconciliation Week has provided us time to reflect on the outcomes and success of this year’s events, while simultaneously getting ready for NAIDOC Week and watching the federal election campaign unfold.
 
In an effort to put Aboriginal Affairs on the election agenda, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peak organisations recently united to develop and release the Redfern Statement, calling for urgent government action and a complete overhaul of Indigenous strategy, engagement and funding. We agree it is time that action is taken on meaningful engagement, health, justice, preventing violence, early childhood and disability. It is time that Aboriginal voices are heard and respected. It is time for action.

We also endorse the recent Reconciliation Australia 2016 Election Statement on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs calling for a change in approach to reconciliation.
 
This past month we were heartened to see the record number of Indigenous candidates standing for the federal election – 13 in total and 8 of them women! We’d like to think this is cause for hope and another sign that the tides are turning.
 
There are many ways to get involved in NAIDOC Week to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Local community celebrations will be held across Victoria, including flag raisings, concerts, lectures, cultural activities, fun runs, marches and more – so many opportunities to show your support and get involved! Check out our webpage and our Facebook page for up-to-date information on how you can join in NAIDOC celebrations.

When you vote on Saturday, keep in mind what are the partys' policies in relation to reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs. Happy Voting and most importantly, Happy NAIDOC Week!

KEY DATES


July: Chinnup - season cockatoos (winter).

3 - 10 July 2016  
NAIDOC Week - Local community celebrations are held across Australia to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Visit Vic NAIDOC Calendar of Events

16 July 2016
Smith Street Dreaming - One Street, Many Mobs, One Community.

Saturday 13 August 2016
Local Reconciliation Groups Forum - venue tbc.

NEWS

Vicki Clark recgnised in Whittlesea Reconciliation Awards


Congratulations to Reconciliation Victoria's long time Council Member and previous Co-Chair, Vicki Clark, and all who won awards for being champions of reconciliation at the Whittlesea Reconciliation Dinner & Awards!

Four City of Whittlesea residents have been awarded for their efforts in furthering reconciliation in the local community. Other winners were Sarah Perry (Education Award), Melbourne Stars Basketball Club (Community Award) and Ronald Briggs (Reg Blow Award).

This year's winners were presented with their awards by
Mayor Stevan Kozmevski at Council's annual Reconciliation Dinner on Friday 10 June.  Read more

Community HART Awards


Geelong's Deadly Dancers were a big hit at the HART Awards Presentation Ceremony.  Photo: Barbara Oehring

Congratulations to the City of Yarra and Reconciliation in the Park (Geelong) who, last month, were announced as winners of the Community HART Awards 2016. The City of Whittlesea and Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation also received special commendations.

Reconciliation Victoria, Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA) and Bank Australia on Mabo Day announced the winners of the HART Awards at a presentation ceremony at the Koorie Heritage Trust. Attending the event were Aunty Joy Murphy and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Hon Natalie Hutchins, along with about 100 invited guests.

The awards recognise councils and community organisations that are Helping Achieve Reconciliation Together – that is, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people working together and contributing to building relationships, respect and understanding between each other.

Read full event report and information on all finalists

2016 Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll - last chance to nominate!

The Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll celebrates the remarkable dedication and determination of Aboriginal Victorians across the state. To date 79 outstanding Aboriginal community members and leaders have been recognised through the Honour Roll for their achievements and contribution in a wide range of fields including justice, education, health, sports, defence, social services, and the arts.

If you know a local person deserving of nomination we encourage you to make a nomination. Download nomination forms

Enquiries: Anatoly Sawenko.

Nominations close 5pm, Friday 1 July 2016.

Culture inspires jumper


Both Thomastown and Fitzroy Stars Football Clubs will don Aboriginal inspired and designed jumpers to celebrate NAIDOC Week. The jumpers were designed by artist Natashia Corrigan

The Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS) – Healthy Lifestyle and Tackling Indigenous Smoking Team have sponsored the Thomastown Football Netball Junior Club for the past 2 years given the high number of Aboriginal juniors at the Club.

VAHS CEO Mr Jason King said: “Having Thomastown wear an Aboriginal designed jumper is a true reflection of our partnership, reconciliation in the community and something the club can do to embrace our culture and promote smoke free messages."  

Thomastown Football will take on the Fitzroy Stars in the NAIDOC Cup clash at the Sir Douglas Nicholls Oval, Corner St Georges Rd and Watt St, Thornbury on Saturday July 10 at 2:10pm

Read more on the VAHS Facebook page.

Photo (L-R): Jacko Proctor (Player, Fitzroy Stars Football Club) and Joe Vocara (Player, Thomastown Football Club).
Entry forms/information: Liz Gallois, PPCfR. Phone 9507 5567
egallois@optusnet.com.au, or visit ppcfr.org.au

Constitutional Recognition and Treaty Update

Recognise recently announced the departure of Joint Campaign Director Tanya Hosch, who will be filling a newly created executive role leading Inclusion and Social Policy with the AFL. Tanya has shown extraordinary commitment, courage and tenacity and we wish her all the best in her exciting new role.

There has been a growing amount of conversation and commentary around the question of whether we can simultaneously pursue both Treaty and Constitutional Recognition. You can read the opinions of a number of commentators, such as Megan Davies, Mark Davies, Stan Grant, Senator Pat Dodson and others, on our website.

We recommend this useful NITV online "Explainer" of what is a Treaty, what it might look like and the current conversation on Indigenous treaties on a state, national and international level.

On 26 - 27 May, Aboriginal Victoria hosted a two-day Aboriginal community forum to discuss self-determination, treaty and representative structures.  View this video of the forums

During NRW Melbourne Conversations held a forum Recognition, treaty, sovereignty and self-determination – facts and ambitions. View the video  

Keep up-to-date with the conversation via our website and Facebook page.

EVENTS

Enquiries – Mary Mutsaers 0478 255 803
Maryemutsaers@gmail.com
Sunday July 3
5.30pm

A hybrid work that spans cinema and online, Still Our Country presents a carnival of contemporary ways, the sum of which makes for a bold declaration of identity and a hopeful promise of a future.

ACMI, Fed Square, Melbourne
$17 – Concession $13 – Member $10
ABORIGINES ADVANCEMENT LEAGUE
FLAG RAISING

Melbourne University Reconciliation Choir 

Celebrate NAIDOC Week by watching the debut performance of Melbourne University's Reconciliation Staff and Students Choir. Under the direction of sopranos Deborah Cheetham AO (Yorta Yorta) and Shauntai Batzke (Wiradjuri), choir members from the staff and student community have learnt Womin Jeka Elements II, a work composed by Deborah Cheetham and James Henry in the local Woi Wurrung language.

Find out more
4 July, 12.30pm–1.30pm
Melba Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Gate 12, Royal Parade, Parkville

Join the conversation as author Tony Birch and poet Bruce Pascoe chat about the significance of the Yarra River, Tony's new book Ghost River and Bruce's Aboriginal farm project.

melbournelibraryservice.com.au
 
Come create a banner during NAIDOC week sharing in the ethos of Lisa Bellear’s activism and community spirit. In a family friendly workshop with Arika Waulu you will contribute to a large banner and make your own banner and collage using a range of materials inspired by the work of Lisa.

Arika Waulu is a sovereign multimedia experimentalist and activator. She uses video, moving and still images that are predominately displayed as projection installation. 

Thursday 7 July
11.30am - 1.30pm
2.30pm - 4.30pm


FREE  Suitable for all ages.
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Koorie Heritage Trust, Yarra Building, Federation Square,
Levels 1 and 3
Bookings essential
BOOK HERE
Bookings and information:
Phone: 1300 374 765
Email: shepparton@gvrlc.vic.gov.au
Thursday 7 July, 6.30pm

On 30 June, the Referendum Council was due to report its recommendations to the federal government on recognising Aboriginal Australians in the Constitution. Join us for an important discussion during NAIDOC week, as we reflect on this year’s theme Songlines: the living narrative of our nation and consider what meaningful recognition means – be it constitutional recognition or a treaty. Hear a panel of passionate voices explore the complexities of the issue and the possible next steps.

Panelists:
Dr Kirsty Gover
Nayuka Gorrie
Adjunct Professor Muriel Bamblett AM


Facilitator: 
Joshua Smith

Abbotsford Convent, Community and Linen Rooms,
1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford
Tickets and information

Indigenous Storytelling for Kids


Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 July
2.30pm - 3.45pm

Help celebrate NAIDOC week by joining cultural educator and storyteller Ron Murray for a unique insight into Indigenous culture.
 
Ron Murray is a Wamba Wamba man. In this workshop, kids will be taken on a journey through Ron’s stories aimed to raise awareness about Indigenous culture and facilitate understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
 
Suitable for 9-12 year olds. This workshop is held in conjunction with the exhibition Re-visioning Histories.

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, 7-27 Snake Gully Road, Bundoora

To book a spot, visit Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
For the seventh year running, Kingston Arts celebrates NAIDOC with a month-long program featuring a range of arts and cultural activities.

NAIDOC Opening
Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony

Sunday 3 July, 2pm
Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin
Kingston Arts welcomes all to the opening of NAIDOC 2016. Come and immerse yourself in the rich culture, history and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
 
Exhibition and Artist Talk
Songlines Her:Stories by Paola Balla

Sunday 3 July to Tuesday 2 August
Artist Floor Talk: Saturday 16 July, 2pm

In considering this year’s national NAIDOC theme of ‘Songlines: The living narrative of our nation’, artist Paola Balla presents a series of new photographic and site specific works as a love letter of respect and awe to her Aboriginal family and the strong, beautiful women within it.
 
Clocktower Projects by Josh Muir
Sunday 3 July, 6 - 9pm
During this year’s NAIDOC, see Melbourne-based multimedia artist and proud Yorta Yorta/ Gunditjmara man, Josh Muir's stunning artworks projected on to the Kingston City Hall Clock Tower.
 
Baluk Arts Workshop for Kids
Saturday 9 July, 2pm
A fun workshop with traditional Indigenous storytelling and the opportunity for kids to create their very own mini storybook using Aboriginal symbols and designs. 
 
The Sapphires – Film Screening and Afternoon Tea
Saturday 23 July, 2pm
Nourish your body, mind and soul with a celebration of Indigenous culture. Relive the glitz, grit and gorgeous songs of The Sapphires and enjoy an Indigenous afternoon tea.
 
Baluk Arts Workshop for Adults
Saturday 30 July, 2pm
Learn traditional Indigenous weaving techniques and have the opportunity to create your very own bush sculpture creature.

Find out more

Yinga-bul: A celebration of Song for NAIDOC Week

This July, experience NAIDOC Week with an exciting program of free and low-cost events for the entire family at Melbourne Recital Centre.

Yinga-bul, a Boon Wurrung word meaning Singing to People, features local artists celebrating indigenous culture through music and song.

Playright, poet, scriptwriter, filmmaker, author and musician Richard J. Frankland is a master storyteller, passionately inspiring audiences around the world with his unique voice and strong views.

In this special Salon performance he is joined by special guests Tiriki Onus, John Wayne Parsons and more, in what promises to be a stirring, funny, raucous performance.

To be immediately preceded by Welcome to Country with Koorie Tiddas Youth Choir starting at 6.30pm.

Wednesday 6 July
7.30 - 8.45pm
 

Short Black Opera


Song for NAIDOC is set to elevate this special time of celebration to a whole new level, quite literally with a concert featuring acclaimed Yorta Yorta soprano Deborah Cheetham AO and members of her Short Black Opera Company – Shauntai Batzke, Jessica Hitchcock, Zoy Frangos and John Wayne Parsons (baritone).

Thursday 7 July
7.00pm
 

Mission Songs Project

Curated by Jessie Lloyd, the Mission Songs Project is an initiative to revive and present a rare collection of early Australian Indigenous contemporary songs that were composed and performed between 1900 to 1999.

The Mission Songs Project faithfully explores the musical journey of Indigenous music, as Jessie Lloyd connects the traditional with contemporary and reveals the continuation of cultural practice and oral traditions into the twenty first century.

Friday 8 July
7.00pm
 
Melbourne Recital Centre
Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Southbank
$25 – $15 Concession for each performance (or $60 for three-concert package)
Information and Bookings

Flag Raising Ceremony


Tuesday 5 July 2016
11am - 12.30pm, Brimbank City Council Municipal Offices, Alexandra Avenue, Sunshine

Brimbank City Council, together with the Department of Health and Human Services, would like to invite members of the local community to celebrate the culture, history and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country by a Wurundjeri Elder
Raising of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags
Entertainment by Indigenous performers and children’s activities
Morning tea (no charge)

 

Library Workshops


Come and discover many aspects of Aboriginal culture by participating in a workshop. There will be stories, dancing, face painting and more! For ages 5-13. Bookings essential.

SUNSHINE – Friday 8 July, 11am
Sunshine Library, McCracken Street, Sunshine. Phone 9249 4640

DEER PARK – Friday 8 July, 1pm
4 Neale Road, Deer Park. Phone 9249 4660

Find out more
Information: www.korrienightmarket.com.au

Thinking of having a stall?
Contact Sharon, Koorie Night Market – 0425 747 727.
Dave is a Kokatha/Gunditjmara Storyteller & Songman. The Dave Arden Gunditjmara/Kokatha, Songman & Storyteller Show is a full band performance of 12 original songs and stories.This show represents a collective history between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
 
From freedom fighters to Irish settlers, Gunditjmara soldiers in the World Wars to a new generation of culture keepers and leaders, these important stories are interwoven with song and music.

BAYSWATER – Thursday 7 July
Knox Community Arts Centre, Mountain Highway, Bayswater
Tickets

Victorian Tour dates:
TRARALGON â€“ Thursday 28 July

Latrobe Regional Performing Arts Centre, Grey Street, Traralgon
BAIRNSDALE – Friday 19 August
Forge Theatre, 80 McKean Street, Bairnsdale
LAKES ENTRANCE – Saturday 20 August
Lakes Entrance Mechanics’ Hall, 18 Mechanics St, Lakes Entrance
Wednesday 24 August – Warragul
West Gippsland Arts Centre, cnr Albert and Smith Streets, Warragul
SALE – Thursday 25 August
Esso BHP Billiton, Wellington Entertainment Centre
100 Foster Street, Sale
HEYWOOD – Friday 2 September 
Heywood Community Hall, Edgar Street, Heywood
WARRNAMBOOL – Saturday 3 September
The Lighthouse Theatre, 195 Timor Street, Warrnambool
 
12 noon  The Walk of Solidarity
3pm Afternoon Tea
5pm Trophy Presentations

For ten years, the Rumbalara Football / Netball Club has celebrated and united women by honouring the significance of the many roles they play as grandmothers, mothers, aunties and sisters, and the impact they have in creating strong families and communities.

You are invited to join this celebration, beginning with a formal Welcome to Country by women of the Yorta Yorta Nation to women of all cultures and communities.
Kevin will share stories and experiences from his diverse, interesting and captivating life.
 
Wednesday 6 July
6pm – Light refreshments
6.30pm – Interview / Q&A with Kevin Coombs
Darebin Arts Centre, cnr Bell Street and St Georges Road, Preston
 
Kevin became a paraplegic at the age of 12. He established the Koori Hospital Liaison Officer Program, and received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He has been inducted into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame.

Kevin was the first Aboriginal Paralympic competitor for Australia in 1960 in wheelchair basketball and has competed in five Paralympic Games. Kevin is also a Wotjobaluk Elder.

John Evans,
Professor of Indigenous Health Education at UTS with extensive academic and industry experience in Indigenous sport and education, will interview Kevin alongside others from his life.

Information

Cnr Stanley and Smith Streets, Collingwood

FREE BBQ  â€¢  FREE COFFEE  â€¢  CEREMONIAL FIRE
Alcohol free event

leapsandboundsmusicfestival.com

Planting Traditional Indigenous Food, Fibre and Medicine Plants


        
Get involved with the Friends of Panton Hill Bushland Reserve System and Wurundjeri Tribe’s ‘Narrap’ (land management) team CMA project: Restoring Indigenous cultural practices in Bunjil Reserve.

Uncle Dave Wandin (pictured) will welcome us to country and discuss the importance and use of some of locally indigenous plants. You can help revegetate the entrance to Bunjil Reserve for use in an interpretation trail by planting indigenous plants and contributing your creative energy to the site.

When: Sunday 17 July. 10.00am - 1.00pm
Where: Bunjil Reserve, Panton Hill
More info: www.nillumbik.vic.gov.au/enviroevents or 9433 3316

Yingadi Immersion 2016


Yingadi – meaning to come/be invited
 
You are invited to come, experience and explore Aboriginal spirituality and connection to land by walking with Mutthi Mutthi woman Vicki Clark in the footsteps of her ancestors at Lake Mungo and Balranald.

Sunday 25th  to Thursday 29th  September 2016
                                   
Cost: $1100 all inclusive (transport, accommodation, meals)
Expression of Interest and Application:
Peter Hay – Director: peter@amberley.org.au
Karen Mahoney – Yingadi Immersion Coordinator: karen@amberley.org.au
Phone: 9439 8282

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EXHIBITIONS

Bambuga: A Long Time Ago

Nick Kupetsky Solo Exhibition
 
Bambuga is an exhibition of charcoal works on canvas by Baluk artist Nick Kupetsky of Tasmanian Aboriginal and Russian heritage. Nick's works are portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people in the 19th centruy based on photographs from the time.

24 May – 15 July
Baluk Arts, 6 Bruce Street, Mornington

NAIDOC Exhibition in Monash


Showing related art work from participating schools in Monash

June 30 – July 10
Opening by Dr Jim Poulter, Sunday July 3, 2 pm

The Highway Gallery

14 The Highway, Mt Waverley
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 12 noon to 4pm, or by appointment.

Enquiries: 0417 147 394 – mrg2009@live.com.au

Above: Painting by a year 11 Avila College student illustrating the location of her home.

Yannae Wirrate Weelam


Many well-known Koorie artists have created works while imprisoned, some of which have been purchased by leading galleries around the world.

See a variety of artworks by Indigenous artists from south-eastern Australia who are currently participating in The Torch's Indigenous Arts in Prison and Community program.

Focusing on the role of cultural strengthening and artistic expression, these works form part of a rehabilitation process that helps build confidence, social capital and can create a pathway to economic stability. By embracing participants as artists rather than ex-offenders, The Torch provides an avenue to change.

Find out more

Bunjilaka Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum.
3 July - 6 November
21 June – 10 July

This exhibition showcases artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists residing in Melbourne.

Good Shepherd Chapel, Abbotsford Convent,
1 St Helliers St, Abbotsford
 

Re-visioning Histories
18 June – 21 August

 
Re-visioning Histories presents Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from across Australia. Through a range of media, these artists create objects of attitude – propositions that acknowledge desecration and give licence to contest the many histories and assumptions of Australia’s identity.

Curated by Indigenous artist Yhonnie Scarce and Curator at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Claire Watson, the exhibition employs the colonial past of the gallery as its starting point to discuss the many potent issues around the history of colonisation and its impact on Indigenous Australians. 

Featuring leading artists from across Australia: Fergus Binns, Megan Cope, Vicki Couzens, Nici Cumpston (SA), Will French (NSW), Dale Harding (QLD), Anna Liebzeit, Steaphan Paton, Steven Rhall and Yhonnie Scarce.

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, 7-27 Snake Gully Road, Bundoora

For more information, including opening times, visit Bundoora Homestead.

Image: Steaphan Paton Cognitive Dissonance #2 (detail), 2015. Modified found tapestry. Courtesy of the Artist and Tristian Koenig, Melbourne. Acrylic on cotton and wool. 

Close to You:
The Lisa Bellear Picture Show


Photos from an activist's archive

21 May – 17 July

Level 1 Gallery, Yarra Building, Federation Square

This exhibition pays tribute to the life and work of Lisa Bellear, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of her passing in 2006.

Curated by close friends, artists Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser and cousin Kim Kruger, this exhibition showcases a selection from Bellear’s photographic collection, held by the Koorie Heritage Trust through which she documented over a quarter of a century of Indigenous community life including marches celebrations, portraits, signs and graffiti, and personal photographs.

By 2006 she had created a collection of over 30,000 images, mostly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Find out more
Lisa Bellear, Black GST Protest, Camp Sovereignty, 2006, colour photograph, Lisa Bellear Collection, Koorie Heritage Trust (detail)

Kart Koodin 2 Exhibition 


Kart Koodin is a Kulin word meaning Paper. It is also the title of the latest exhibition by Baluk Arts during Reconciliation week at Manningham Art Gallery.

Enjoy a beautiful earthy selection of works on paper by Baluk artists including Lisa Waup, Dominic Bramall-White, Patrice Muthaymiles Mahoney and Dan Kelly.

25 May – 2 July
Manningham Art Gallery
687 Doncaster Road, Doncaster

Reframed

Reframed explores the role Aboriginal Australian artists are playing in reconstructing accepted ideas about history, connection country and identity through photographic processes.

Guest curator, Kent Morris has selected artworks that that question aspects of the dominant colonial mindset and challenge stereotypes of what defines Aboriginality.

By establishing their own cultural agency behind the lens, the artists develop a dialogue that presents alternative perspectives and 'reframes' the lived experiences of Australia's First Peoples.

Guest curator, Kent Morris

Artists: Paola Balla, Bindi Cole Chocka, Michael Cook, Genevieve Grieves, Dianne Jones, Kent Morris, Steaphan Paton, Steven Rhall, Warwick Thornton, James Tylor, Peter Waples-Crowe, Arika Waulu, Raymond Zada.

Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley
3 June - 24 July


Curator talk: Saturday, 2 July at 1pm.
RSVP at incineratorgallery.com or on 8325 1750

State of the Nation


Curated by Kimberley Moulton

This exhibition explores notions of statelessness and nationhood.

In a country yet to recognise its First Peoples through one or multiple treaties, where Aboriginal communities are forced to close and basic human rights are neglected, we are told to rejoice in being ‘young and free’. How do First Peoples maintain agency, rights and responsibilities to lands, and celebrate cultural practices when treated as aliens in their own territories? 

This exhibition explores notions of  statelessness and nationhood and the ways First Peoples maintain and assert sovereignty and challenge the status quo of colonial order. What is the state of the nation?

Find out more

Image: 1000 Warrior March. Photograph courtesy of James Henry

Counihan Gallery In Brunswick
Friday 10 June– Sunday 10 July
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 11 am - 5 pm Sunday 1 pm - 5 pm

233 Sydney Road (inside Brunswick Town Hall), Brunswick
Entry is free

Judy Watson
The Scarifier


Judy Watson’s Aboriginal matrilineal family are from Waanyi country in north-west Queensland and her process involves working with stories and memories of Indigenous Country. Watson has created a specially commissioned new installation in response to the Museum’s location in the Yarra Valley.

Following lines of emotional and physical topography that centre on particular places and moments in time, she has focused on the history of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station near Healesville (1863 -1924).

The installation captures an intimate and powerful evocation of daily life at Coranderrk.

In combination with the Museum’s Panorama exhibition, Judy Watson’s installation provides a creative perspective on the memories, scars and psychological impact of the relationship between Indigenous people and the colonial landscape.

Read more

TarraWarra Museum of Art
311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road, Healesville
Open Tuesday – Sunday, 11am to 5pm
Exhibition finishes 31 July.

WORKSHOPS

Monthly Weaving Workshops at the Koorie Heritage Trust


NEW DATES

New dates have been released for monthly weaving workshops with Yorta Yorta woman Donna Blackall. This regular workshop gives keen weavers a chance to build projects over the months.

Friday 8 July
Friday 12 August
Friday 9 September
Friday 7 October
Friday 11 November


Workshops include tea and coffee.
All skill levels suitable.
Bookings are essential.
12 noon – 1pm
Koorie Heritage Trust, Level 3, The Yarra Building, Federation Square,

$16.50
Book Here
or contact 8662 6336

MERCHANDISE

NAIDOC posters and merchandise


Posters and merchandise (wristbands, badges, etc) can be ordered through the VicTas Office. If you would like to order posters and /or merchandise please send an email to:
 
Secretariat.victoria@network.pmc.gov.au
 
Could you please include the following information: 
•  Name of organisation
•  Contact person / contact phone number
•  Postal address
•  Number of posters you’d like sent

BOOKS

It’s Our Country


Edited by Marcia Langton and Megan Davis.

The idea of constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has become a highly political and contentious issue, entangled in institutional processes that rarely express the diversity of Indigenous opinion.

This collection of essays by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander thinkers and leaders, including Patrick Dodson, Noel Pearson, Dawn Casey, Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Mick Mansell, explores what recognition and constitutional reform might achieve – or not achieve – for Indigenous people.

Published by MUP, $29.99

The Forgotten People


Edited by Damien Freeman, Shireen Morris

Liberal and conservative approaches to recognising indigenous peoples
Foreword by Noel Pearson
The Forgotten People challenges the assumption that constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians is a project of the left in Australia.

It demonstrates that there may be a set of reforms that can achieve the change sought by indigenous leaders, while addressing the critical concerns of constitutional conservatives and classical liberals. Includes essays by Major General Michael Jeffery, Cardinal George Pell, Chris Kenny and Malcolm Mackerras.

Available on MUP website

Campfires At The Cross 

A compelling account of the Bunting Dale Aboriginal Mission, 1839 -1851, in Birregurra, and its Methodist missionary founder, Francis Tuckfield, written by Heather Le Griffon.

Amidst the chaotic displacement of the Aborigines of Victoria’s Western District, Francis Tuckfield and the Mission he served, tried to make a difference. The historical narrative is structured so as to ensure that the vividly-recounted events are understood within the context of the period.

The author brings the past to life, and the (occasionally overwhelming) account of the Mission, and the lives it touched, is told in a way that is never divorced from the social, political and religious forces responsible for transforming colonial Australia.

A new edition of this book is now available through the St Kilda Baptist Church. Contact: 
digbyjhannah@gmail, or helenhoffman@gmail.com. Profits donated to the Maarma’Rom Indigenous Education Foundation.

Some articles, videos, podcasts and TV shows that we highly recommend

Aboriginal Australian's land and water management, and a community coming together to help.

Bruce Pascoe provides evidence which might make you change your mind about Indigenous Australians being hunter-gatherers.

If you missed Bruce Pascoe and Richard Frankland on 774's Conversation Hour, the podcast is now available.

The Cleverman


A futuristic drama with roots in Aboriginal mythology. Creatures known as Hairypeople, endowed with incredible strength, speed and longevity, seek refuge among humans who want to silence, exploit and ultimately destroy them.

As unexplained murders terrify the populace, one chosen savior -- the Cleverman -- can ensure peace, but two estranged Indigenous brothers must put their differences aside before fear, hate and greed destroy civilization.

ABC TV, Thursdays 9.30pm or on iView
 


2016 Inaugural Swinburne University Annual Reconciliation Lecture


Presented by Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Professor of Indigenous Education at the University of South Australia.

Without education Aboriginal Peoples will always be second class citizens: What strategies and lessons for reform are offered by the Treaty debate and Constitutional Recognition?

View the lecture here
 


"We are the Australians, we have the power"

Aboriginal writer Bruce Pascoe makes the case for the real and present value of Indigenous culture to the country at large.  

Read an extract and watch the video of Bruce's Lin Onus Oration during NRW at Melbourne University.
 



Building the Bedrock


In honour of NAIDOC week we encourage you to read this article by Victorian Yorta Yorta man, Ian Hamm, published in the VCOSS Insight online magazine: Building the Bedrock.

This piece explores the many great strengths Aboriginal communities have to draw on, which can be used as sources of empowerment and springboards to a brighter future.
 


 

Shorten's treaty talk reflects impact of Indigenous activism


"For the first time ever since I have been enrolled to vote in this country, I got the sense that political views on the importance of Indigenous issues had shifted." Celeste Liddle in Eureka Street, 21 June.

Read full article
 





Bill Gammage on the Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

Listen to Bill's 2011 Wheeler Centre talk here
 


"Shedding the ‘victim narrative’ for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride."


Television is embracing Indigenous people as more than victims in a white story.

Carissa Lee Godwin, The Conversation, 9 June 2016

Read article
 


We’ve been silent on injustice for too long


"Governments around Australia are again playing politics with the lives and liberty of Indigenous people. As a nation, we should have no tolerance for such inequity and injustice".

From an article published in the Human Rights Law Centre Newsletter, by Ruth Barson, senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre and Julian Cleary, an Indigenous rights campaigner at Amnesty International.

Read full article
 


"Better Future"


Song by the Bruva Boys & Manfred Kaindel (aka The Deadly Dancers) performed at the HART Awards Presentation Ceremony - from the recently launched CD "Yenga! Sing! A compilation of Indigenous Music from Melbourne" (Available from Baluk Arts).

Also available on iTunes.
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