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Friday Essay: The ‘Great Australian Silence’ 50 Years On
While we now have important interventions into Aboriginal history that amplify Australia’s uncomfortable past, such as Lyndall Ryan’s massacre map and the Uluru Statement from the Heart, those reverberations continue to cause anxiety.
It’s 50 years since the anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner gave the 1968 Boyer Lectures a watershed moment for Australian history. Stanner argued that Australia’s sense of its past, its very collective memory, had been built on a state of forgetting, which couldn’t “be explained by absent-mindedness”:
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When she was at her lowest, before becoming the sort of person who has the ear and admiration of premiers and governors, Emma Lee worked at a petrol station. It was 2011. She was 38. Sheâd âcrashed and burnedâ, as she describes it, losing her first marriage, her money, her mojo. After a successful career as an archaeologist, and a manager at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, her whole world had shrunk to the grey concrete forecourt at Woolworths Caltex in her home town of Wynyard, on Tasmaniaâs north-west coast. For 18 months she healed, slowly rebuilding herself and, from behind the kiosk counter, finding the inspiration for a new approach to Aboriginal rights â a method that would, only four years later, start to bear fruit with then Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman.
Apology for Aboriginal art and cultural thefts to Tasmanian Indigenous communities long time coming
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Two of Tasmania s oldest institutions have apologised to the state s Aboriginal community for nearly 200 years of practices were morally wrong .
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The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the Royal Society of Tasmania say they are unreservedly sorry for practices they admit were morally wrong