ABC TV
Friday 13, 2000 - 10:50 pm
Stompem Ground 2000
Stompem Ground is the biggest and best indigenous festival in
Australia. It is held in Broome bi-annually and features the cream
of indigenous music as well as traditional Kimberley culture, plus
a weeklong festival of arts and even
Kevin Gilbert's "Inside Black Australia" is still in print (Penguin, "at
all good bookstores"). It's edited and introduced (riveting
introduction) by Gilbert, and contains a good selection of his
poetry, along with poems by Bobbi Sykes (!), Mudrooroo (!!), Ernie
Dingo (!!!), Hyllus Maris, Jac
The ABC has the most consistent coverage of Aboriginal issues.
I guess its like appointing Ruddock to be 'Reconciliation Minister'.
When you want to destroy something you have to appoint an expert.
Trudy
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The Canberra Times
Letters
13/10/2000
Another poet we shouldn't ignore
A POETS' memorial in Glebe Park what a great idea! (Robert
Macklin's column, October 6, p.3). However, I am saddened by the
omission of one name from the list nominated by Geoff Page, although
the five he nominated are i
The last one says it all
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
13/10/2000
Hayden targets myths on Aborigines
I have a deep sense of gratitude to Bill Hayden for his University of
Tasmania speech and its clarity about the dilemma that so many
non-indigenous Aussies have about the "Aboriginal" qu
>From Dennis Eggington of the Perth Aboriginal Legal Service:
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Drover's dog swallows bait and ends up crook at Aborigines
"Bill Hayden suffers from far too high an opinion of his own credibility,"
said Dennis Eggington, Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Legal
Service o
This is, in part, why I have problems with reconciliation, apart from it
being a process in the christian church that therefore has such a clear
theologically colonist and imperialist basis. This when Chika Dixon so
clearly put it - Re-Conned-Silly-Nation.
The authors critique past practice u
reconnet: reconciliation email network
Dear Friends,
Helen Moran and Johnny Huckle, with their 4-month-old daughter, Dindima,
have started their six-week Journey of Healing music tour of Western
Australia. They have a busy programme ahead. They have just arrived in
Broome, where they started
Not at all, Graham. I think he must have been aware of how his ideas
would be used by those who don't have his people's best interests at
heart and I think he should have headed them off at the pass.
Since he made his speeches, everyone from Paddy McGuinness on has used
them as confirmation of the
