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The art of cutting stone: Aboriginal convict labour in 19th-century New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land
Kristyn Harman, University of Tasmania
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
In the first half of the 19th century, at least sixty Aboriginal men from New South Wales were transported as convicts. Kristyn Harman discusses their labours within the convict system, the rationale for putting them to work, and the outcomes.
The hybrid economy as political project
Professor Jon Altman, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Altman introduces his conceptual framework ‘the hybrid economy’, devised as a means to overcome the binary between market/non-market and to explore alternative ways of understanding and practising ‘development’.
Creating a colony: the European settlement of Tasmania 1803–1853
Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 14 October 2009
Curator Anthea Gunn talks about her research on the colonial settlement of Hobart and the expansion of Van Diemen’s Land in the early 1800s, as part of her work on the Creating a Country gallery.
Australians in the Himalayas
Professor Ken Baldwin, Geoff Bartram, Duncan Chessell, Patrick Cullinan, Lincoln Hall, Greg Mortimer and Zac Zaharias
11 October 2009
Leading Australian mountaineers reflect on their Himalayan and broader climbing experiences, on the 25th anniversary of the first Australians climbing Mount Everest.
Stories of the sea: travellers across the Pacific
Deveni Temu, Prue Ahrens and Sioana Faupula
Vaka Moana series, 16 September 2009
Pacific scholars Deveni Temu, Prue Ahrens and Sioana Faupula explore the personal and historical accounts of lives lived with the sea, from early Indigenous populations and European venturers to contemporary travellers.
Force for good: how Indigenous Australians have enriched football
Che Cockatoo-Collins, Dr Sean Gorman, John Harms, and Dr David Headon
15 September 2009
This is a forum on how Indigenous Australians have enriched Australian Rules football, and the social significance of their participation. Speakers include players, academics and sports commentators.
Get Up, Stand Up public forum
Martin Ballangarry, Brothablack, Professor John Maynard and Rachel Perkins
10 September 2009
Contemporary forms of Indigenous protest are examined by historian John Maynard, film director Rachel Perkins, elder Martin Ballangarry and hip-hopper Brothablack in a forum coinciding with the Museum’s From Little Things Big Things Grow exhibition.
What is a memory?
Dr Judith Slee, Dr Mike Pickering, Professor Paul Pickering and Dr Peter Stanley
Sites of Memory symposium, 28 August 2009
Historians Mike Pickering, Paul Pickering and Peter Stanley join psychologist Judith Slee in a discussion about memory, how it is defined, measured and understood, and why it is sometimes contested.
Memorials and sacred sites
Professor Claire Smith, Flinders University and Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia
Sites of Memory symposium, 28 August 2009
The spiritual significance and memorialisation of place are explored by archaeologist Claire Smith, examining Aboriginal sacred sites, and by historian Peter Stanley’s research into the Mont St Quentin battlefield.
Layers of significance – Reconciliation Place and the Acton Peninsula, Canberra
Leanne Dempsey, Mandy Doherty, Anne Faris, Professor Amareswar Galla, Paul House, Andrew Smith and Benita Tunks
Sites of Memory symposium, 28 August 2009
Explores the varying layers of significance of Reconciliation Place and Acton Peninsula in Canberra, both traditional homes of the Ngambri Aboriginal people. The Peninsula was once the site of the Canberra hospital and is now home to the National Museum.
