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Reconciliation. If you would like to become involved in this website's
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| Recommended reading |
Leaping
lizards: the giant goanna of peace
Bridging gaps ... the seven metre goanna
created for Moree's reconciliation
festival by Sydney lesbians and local youth
Anwernekenhe:
the Black Survivors
"Hundreds of years ago diseases like small pox and scrurvy claimed
thousands of Aboriginal lives. We can't let HIV do the same thing and decimate
the community."
Invasion Day 1998: Aboriginal Statements
"When an ideology that elevates to national hero status the architect of indigenous genocide, it infests the fabric of society. School children, from the time that they can reason, are inculcated with the notion that theft equals righteousness, colonialism equals liberation, that indigenous peoples were and are savages, and that Euro-American superiority has been vindicated through the colonialism of the western hemisphere"
Aborigines'
Progress Association manifesto (1938)
"We have in our arteries the blood
of the Original Australians, who have lived in this land for many thousands
of years. You came here only recently, and you took our land away from
us by force. You have almost exterminated our people, but there are enough
of us remaining to expose the humbug of your claim, as White Australians,
to be a civilized, progressive, kindly and humane nation. By your cruelty
and callousness towards the Aborigines you stand condemned in the eyes
of the civilized world"
Indigenous
people's Law-Ways:
Survival against the colonialist state
by Irene Watson
the true story of Hindmarsh
"To those who say as they did when they planted the theory of terra nullius upon our lands that we were peoples without law, and to those who say women's law-business is a fabrication, I say: you are ignorant, and have much to learn."
Primal
fear: Race, politics and respectable Australia
By David Marr
"Did you (like me) jump out of your
skin at the sight of the old black man standing in the rain in Peter Weir's
The Last Wave? It was a fright straight out of childhood. Who taught me
about black bogeymen who take little children away? Probably my grandmother.
I'm still carrying that baggage and know I'm not alone in that."
Try
the INFO
page or the LINKS
pages for more GOOD reading
| Food for thought |
" 'At no stage did Aboriginal civilisation develop substantial buildings, roadways or even a wheeled cart.' Dispossession was bound to happen, he said. 'Those in the guilt industry have to consider that developing cultures and peoples will always overtake relatively stationary cultures'."
Australia's Deputy Prime
Minister, Tim Fisher
(The Australian 22.6.93,
page 8)
Fisher was defended against
accusations of bigotry and racism by none other than Australian Prime Minister
John Howard
(The Courier-Mail;
9.7.93, page 2)
Now you can see why they find it impossible to say 'sorry'?
To find out how to contact
our beloved leaders check out the SUPPORT
page
Read 'A
Black view of Howard's way'
"I don't think there's ever been such ill-will about the administration and policy development in Aboriginal affairs ever in the 20th century, having due regard to previous historic periods and different ways of thinking. I mean, these blokes are reinventing the 19th century."
Read about who will gain from the government's racist Ten Point Plan
".. if Aboriginal
people get to share the riches that are still left in this country, what
is wrong with that? because it's only been 125 years since they took all
the riches .."
| Mardi
Gras '98
Festival events |
Local artists Brook Andrew and Rea draw upon their own histories to make an exhibition which takes as its starting point identities in conflict.
February 12 - March 7
Gitte Weise Gallery
Level 2, 94 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
Tues-Sat 11am-6pm
CitySearch coverage of Blak Babe and Kweer Kat
Sydney Sidewalk coverage of Black Babe and Kweer Kat
Festival launch
The Festival Launch featured welcome
by Wendy Brady, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Board member and a
member of the Wiradjuri Aboriginal nation, and didgeridoo played by Greg
Fleck. The Netcast has been taken down but we hope to include footage of
Wendy from the Launch soon.
The Mardi Gras Netcast featured coverage of Queers for reconciliation's
float and some great commentary including the story of the Goanna. The
Netcast has been taken down but we hope to include footage featuring our
float soon.
Pool
Party
Produced by Raymond Blanco, Artistic
Director, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Dance Theatre. Victoria
Park was once a Koori corroboree site - we're reclaiming it as a space
for all of our tribes.
February 14
Victoria Park Pool
Victoria Park, Parramatta Rd, Darlington
Black
Roots
Sydney's leading indigenous art gallery
gathers four indigenous gay and lesbian artists, ranging across a variety
of styles, for this group show.
February 3-28
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative
27 Abercrombie St, Chippendale
Tues-Fri 9am-5pm
Sat 12pm-4pm
CitySearch
coverage of Black Roots
Sydney
Sidewalk coverage of Black Roots
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