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Where salt and fresh waters meet: reconciliation and change in education

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Pages 201-224 | Published online: 17 Nov 2011
 

Notes

 1. The Kaurna people are the Indigenous people of the Adelaide plains.

 2. We acknowledge the following colleagues for their various roles in shaping or challenging the ideas in this essay, which appeared first as a video presentation at the EASA ‘Reconciliations: 100 years of Federation’ Conference, Lecce, Italy, 24–29 September 2002: Daryle Rigney, Prof. Paul Hughes, Mandy Price, Dr Doug Morgan, Ali Gumillya Baker, Assoc. Prof. Lyn Jacobs, Dr Rick Hosking, Steve Hemming, Dr Christine Nicholls and Australian Studies/Indigenous Studies postgraduate and undergraduate students of Flinders University.

 3. See, for example, Rosemary Nagy, ‘The ambiguities of Reconciliation and responsibility in South Africa’, Political Studies, vol 52, 2004, pp 709–27.

 4. Sally Vickers uses this formulation of ‘own truth’ in her novel Miss Garnet's Angel, Fourth Estate, London, 2000, p 293.

 5. Drawing on concepts from the work of Foucault, Habermas, Gaita and Fanon.

 6. Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ‘Introduction: resistance, recovery and revitalisation’ in Michelle Grossman (ed.), Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, p 131.

 7. Michael Gordon, Reconciliation: A Journey, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2001, pp 1–5.

 8. Australian Broadcasting Commission, Edward W Said, ‘The public role of writers and intellectuals’, The Alfred Deakin Lectures, 20 May 2001.

 9. Raimond Gaita, ‘Breach of trust: Truth, morality and politics’, Quarterly Essay, issue 16, 2004, pp 1–10.

10. Moreton-Robinson, op. cit., pp 127–8.

11. Gus Worby and Lester Irabinna-Rigney (eds), Sharing Spaces, API Network, Perth, 2006. All references in this article to `this volume' refer to this book.

12. Michael Dodson, ‘The end in the beginning: Re(de)fining Aboriginality’, in Grossman (ed.), op. cit., p 33.

13. See: Helen Watson and David Wade with the Yolngu community at Yirrkala, Singing the Land, Singing the Land, Deakin University Press, Geelong, 1989, p 5; and Peter Read, Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000.

14. Sir Roland Wilson in Jackie Huggins, Mbuelo Mzemane and Roland Wilson, ‘RIP: Reconciliation in Paralysis’. Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, Thursday 12 July 2001, 5UV Radio Adelaide.

15. Patrick Dodson, ‘Lingiari: Until the chains are broken’ in Michelle Grattan (ed.), Reconciliation: Essays on Australian Reconciliation, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2000, pp 264–74.

16. Noel Pearson, ‘Our Right to Responsibility’ cited in Michael Gordon, op. cit., p 45.

17. Australian Broadcasting Commission, Father Frank Brennan and Peter Thompson, ‘The Wisdom Interviews’, May 2002.

18. John Howard ‘Practical Reconciliation’ in Michelle Grattan (ed.), op. cit., p 89.

19. See Phillip Morrissey, ‘Aboriginality and corporatism’ in Grossman, op. cit., pp 52–9.

20. See Tracey Bunda, ‘Self-Determination: Actualising the Space’.

21. Phillip Morrissey, ‘Afterword: moving, remembering, singing our place’ in Grossman, op. cit., p 191.

22. Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, ‘Principles for the practices of education by Australian Universities’, see: ‘University responsibilities: student expectations, item 1’; and ‘Teaching and learning, item 7’, 1999.

23. Daryle Rigney and Gus Worby, ‘Towards an Indigenous Research Charter’, in Claire Smith and H Martin Wobst (eds), Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonising Theory and Practice, Routledge, London, 2005.

24. Homi Bhaba, The Location of Culture, Routledge, London, 1994, pp 36–9.

25. Geoffrey Stokes (ed.), The Politics of Identity in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997, pp 169–70.

26. Gus Worby, ‘Collaborative teaching in Australian s/Studies and Indigenous s/Studies inside and outside the class room’, in David Carter, Kate Darian-Smith and Gus Worby (eds), Thinking Australian Studies: Teaching Across Cultures, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2004, pp 241–74.

27. Newspoll, Saulwick and Muller and Hugh Mackay, ‘Public opinion on Reconciliation’, in Grattan, op. cit., p 33.

28. Raimond Gaita, ‘Guilt, shame and collective responsibility’, in Grattan, ibid., p 286.

29. ibid., p 275.

30. Christopher Pearson, ‘The need for scepticism’, in Grattan, ibid., pp 260–3.

31. Henry Reynolds, ‘The Wik debate, human rights and Australia's international obligations’, in Susan Magarey (ed.), Human Rights and Reconciliation in Australia, Australian Cultural History, no 18, 1999, p 41.

32. William Jonas, The Australian, 22 May, 2002, p 11.

33. Ian Anderson, ‘Black bit, white bit’, in Grossman, op. cit., pp 43–51.

34. Janet Albrechtson, The Australian, 22 May, 2002, p 11.

35. Stokes, op.cit., p 10.

36. Simone Ulalka Tur in Gus Worby, Lester Irabinna Rigney and Simone Ulalka Tur, ‘Where the salt water meets the fresh’, video presentation, European Association for Studies on Australia, Sixth Biennial Conference, ‘Reconciliations: 100 Years of Australian Federation’, Lecce, Italy, September 24–29, 2002.

37. Lester Irabinna Rigney in Gus Worby, Lester Irabinna Rigney and Simone Ulalka Tur, ibid.

38. Reynolds, op. cit., pp 38–45.

39. William Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Superfine Publishing, Sydney, 2001, p 218.

40. William Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Superfine Publishing, Sydney, 2003, p 1; see also pp 54–56.

41. David Ritter and Frances Flannagan, ‘Lawyers and rats: Critical theory and native title’, in Sandy Toussaint (ed.), Crossing Boundaries: Cultural, Legal, Historical and Practice Issues in Native Title, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2004, pp 130–3.

42. Reynolds, op. cit., p 44.

43. Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Human rights and reconciliation in international perspective’, in Magarey, op, cit., pp 20–21.

44. Brendan Nelson, Higher Education at the Crossroad: An Overview Paper, Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Training, Canberra, 2002, p 31.

45. See Arjun Appadurai, ‘Disjunction and difference in the global cultural economy’, in P Williams and L Chrisman (eds), Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York, 1993, pp 324–339.

46. Edward W Said, op. cit.

47. ibid.

48. Edward W Said, ‘Foucault and the imagination of power’, in David Couzens Hoy, Foucault: A Critical Reader, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, p 151.

49. Robert Connell, ‘Notes on the world intelligentsia’, UTS Review, vol 3, no 1, 1997.

50. Mbuelo Mzemane in Huggins, Mzemane and Wilson, op. cit.

51. Edward W Said, ‘The public role of writers and intellectuals’.

52. Mbuelo Mzemane, op. cit.

53. Simone Tur, Daryle Rigney, Lester-Irabinna Rigney, ‘Training teachers for reconciliation: A work in progress’, Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA) annual conference, Adelaide, September 2003, conference paper Number 089, pp 133–150.

54. Inga Clendinnen, True Stories: The 1999 Boyer Lectures, ABC Books, Sydney, pp 6–7, and ‘Acknowledging difference: Public intellectuals and Aboriginal Australia’, Quarterly Essay, issue 15, 2004, passim.

55. Jackie Huggins in Huggins, Mzemane and Wilson, op. cit.

56. Marcia Langton, Well I Heard it on the Radio and I Saw it on the Television, AFC, NSW, 1992, p 10.

57. Marcia Langton, ‘Aboriginal art and film: The politics of representation’, in Grossman, op. cit., p 115.

58. Stuart Hall, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, Sage Publications, London, 1997, p 1.

59. M E Somers, ‘The privatisation of citizenship’, in V E Bonnell, and L Hunt (eds), Beyond the Cultural Turn, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999, p 121.

60. See: Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs, Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1998.

61. See Ghassan Hage ‘On the ethics of pedestrian crossings’, in Trust—Meanjin, vol 59, no 4, 2000, and Roland Wilson, ‘ Part 1: Introduction’, in Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their families, Commonwealth of Australia, Sterling Press, Sydney, 1997.

62. Tony Koch and Patricia Karvelas, ‘Howard takes road to reconciliation’, Weekend Australian, 21–22 May, 2005, pp 1 and 9.

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Notes on contributors

Lester-Irabinna Rigney

This article is drawn from Gus Worby and Lester-Irabinna Rigney (eds), Sharing Spaces, API Network, Perth, 2006.

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