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No Title (website Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) )Richmond River Historical Society MF. N. C. Hewitt, letters to and from Aboriginal Protection Board, 1915, 1927 and 1936. Aborigines Inland Mission Report, 1906....
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: ...
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.........................................................
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...
This bibliography is from Graham Sealís The Hidden Culture: Folklore in Australian Society (2nd rev. Australian Folk Songs, Holloways Beach, Qld, 1972. Australian Folk Trust, The Australian Folk Directory, 1982/83, Australian Folk Trust, 1982....
The Australian Folklore Association, Inc. was formed to promote the study of folklore, to facilitate communication and information dissemination amongst researchers, and to develop the public appreciation of the cultural role of folklore. At that meeting...
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...
The purpose of this bill is to amend the Flags Act 1953 to ensure that the current Australian national flag can only be replaced if a majority of voters in all states and territories agree. This bill seeks to protect Australia's greatest national symbol,...
Nevertheless, they provide valuable information about aboriginal folklore and cultural and spiritual beliefs. As she said in the introduction to 'The Euahlayi Tribe', "The following pages are intended as a contribution to the study of the manners, customs...
2 Preface Indigenous Australians Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the original owners and inhabitants of Australia. Filmmaking that involves Indigenous content or Indigenous people can cut across many levels of the cultural heritage spec...
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...
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...
iii The Social Significance discussion paper introduces a new era in cultural heritage assessment and management for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. PART 3: Legislation, policy and practice 8 Charters, legislation and policy A review of cur...
: $29.95 ANL eng ANL contributed cataloguing 330.16 Mesiti, Pat. AN: 43482809 ISBN: 9781741730371 Available from: Cameron House, 174 Cormack Road, Wingfield SA5013 SSL eng SSL ANL contributed cataloguing 759 Painting. : $24.95 Available from: Allen & Unwi...
Mundara is also an actor and has appeared on several TV shows including Water Rats, Police Rescue and Wildside. In 1996 Mundara was the first Aboriginal to win the Faculty Award for Aboriginal Studies in NSW and the Qantas Encouragement Award for the sam...
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. ...
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 ...
Belonging Nowhere: The Wildcat Trilogy76 V. Vampirising Oppositional Histories: Long Live Sandawara122 VI. Shared Histories and Shifting Identities: Doctor Wooreddyís Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 156 VII. Violent Histories of Ident...
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