When I think about the future, I think about peace.
Older than pyramids
Location: Brewarrina Aboriginal Museum Time: Afternoon, Wednesday 15 September
My Country
Growing up and living on Country is something I had always taken for granted.
‘I am an invisible man’: This is how I became a curator
To be a curator is to care. To care for Country, to care for history, and to care for living people and their expression.
Different Plants for Different Meanings
On the way to my homeland there’s a riverbed. And above it there’s a big rock face where these stripy lines are, all those lines, that’s intelhentye.
Sing for the Black: From the Act to Treaty
My story is a story of challenge, success, sadness, joy, ongoing struggle and love. My show From Rations to Wages to Treaty is a curated story of song and images that speak to the experiences of many Indigenous people, focusing on those who have shown strength and given inspiration, so that all our stories can continue. From Rations to Wages to Treaty documents and sings these eras and what occurred and continues to occur for Indigenous peoples during these times. It has also become the template for my PhD thesis. It tells the story of my family and the leaders […]
Well it’s beautiful Country, really—
and not much development on it. Very little. There’s still Country that hasn’t been touched for a long time.
Djaara: the essential ingredient
The Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation has a recipe for health and success. It’s a recipe perfected by the Dja Dja Wurrung Ancestors over millennia.
Ilkakelheme akngakelheme—resisting assimilation
Kinship comes out of the Country itself, it comes from the Ancestor beings. Aboriginal people have grown up deep inside this from creation, and they live within it always and forever.
Yulendj Boonwurrung
The history of the first people of Melbourne—the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boonwurrung The area we today call Melbourne was part of the estate of the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan. The Yaluk-ut Weelam were a clan of the Boonwurrung—one of the five language groups of the confederacy known as the Kulin.
From the Archives: Interview with Kath Walker
In considering the Meanjin Paper for this edition, we have dived deep into the archives of Meanjin, seeking to honour the voices of those that have come before. Through our reading of the archives, we understand that many of the issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have remained the same for close to 45 years…
Makunschan, Meeanjan, Miganchan, Meanjan, Magandjin
Every tribe … has its own dialect, if not language … stamps their locality much, know every acre of land belonging to their ‘home’… each plant, flower, tree, shrub, grass, bird, beast, insect … every mile of a river or watercourse its own appellation, from the highest source to the mouth or junction always had a name of its own.1 —Henry Stuart Russell