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There’s a pressing need to create a national keeping place for the cultural property of Indigenous people – a kind of reverse museum to repatriate rather than appropriate
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Activists say symbols of resistance taken when Captain Cook’s men first encountered Indigenous people in 1770 must come home, and not just on loan
Almost 250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his men shot Rodney Kelly’s ancestor, the Gweagal warrior Cooman, stole his shield and spears, and took them back to England in a presciently violent opening act of Australian east coast Aboriginal and European contact.
Now Kelly is heading on a quest to the British Museum in London to reclaim the precious shield and spears on behalf of his Gweagal people.
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The ABC has missed an opportunity to explore the many complex arguments from within Indigenous Australia itself
• Recognition: Yes or No review: Bolt’s barney with Burney an exercise in cheap spectacle
The ABC television documentary Recognition: Yes or No is an opportunity lost.
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It’s almost time to go now from this cocoon that’s been ours for almost two decades: an archive of elation and celebration, of sorrow and disappointment
My father was never much given to sentiment, nostalgia, spiritualism or superstition.
He was practical and prosaic in belief and taste. In his last years he continued to attend church mainly because he had always done so and, I suspect, to have done otherwise would’ve necessitated an explanation to my excessively churchy mother.
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In appointing Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, the once conservative state museum has challenged how institutions should think about their collections
The South Australian Museum’s Indigenous Australian collection of 28,000 artefacts stands as one of the world’s most significant accumulations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural and historical material.