Uncovering the brutal truth about justice at Uluru
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The first film ever shot of Uluru was taken during the exhumation of an Indigenous man gunned down by a policeman. Itâs a reminder of the relationship between colonial violence and Australiaâs most iconic locales. In a sense, theyâre all crime scenes.
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Return to Uluru, award-winning historian Mark McKenna highlights the recency of dispossession in the Northern Territory and Central Australia. After all, the Coniston Massacre â in which as many as 150 Aboriginal people were murdered â took place in 1928, just after Don Bradman made his first-class debut.
Douglas Mawson in the desert
The famed Antarctic explorer’s journeys through Australia.
Outback track at Arkaroola, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Credit: John White Photos / Getty Images.
Today, 5 May, is the birthday of Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian geologist best known for his Antarctic explorations. He undertook multiple expeditions to the frozen south, including leading the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, which was not just geared towards exploration but also scientific research.
But Mawson’s long career wasn’t entirely focused on the polar regions.
Cosmos chatted to Mark Pharoah, Senior Collections Manager at the South Australian Museum, to find out what we know about Mawson’s research closer to home.
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A still from the winning work, âOpen Airâ by Grayson Cook and Emma Walker.
ONE of the great pleasures of life in the national capital is that every year we can view the finalists in the biennial Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.Â
Canberra is the only Australian city outside Adelaide who can say this. There are still a couple of weeks to pay a visit to the National Archives, where the rare show, commemorating the birth of the South Australian Museum’s first curator, Frederick George Waterhouse, has been coming for many years, delighting members of the general public and gradually converting art lovers initially suspicious of its mission to view scientific investigation through art.
Chloe Read has worked in education policy for over 15 years, originally in IT support and consulting in the Department of Education, Tasmania. Ms Read joined the NSW Department of Education (DoE) in 2014, working across many executive IT, infrastructure and policy roles. Ms Read job shares the role of Deputy Secretary, Education & Skills Reform with Lisa Alonso Love, and represents the Department on the WRN as well as being an ex officio member of the NSW Skills Board. Ms Read and Ms Alonso Love previously job shared as Chief People Officer and Deputy Secretary, Educational Services in DoE. Ms Read holds an Master of Arts with Honours in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh, a Masters of Computing from the University of Tasmania and is a member of the Executive Fellows Program at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).