http://hdl.handle.net/10453/319 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:04:53 GMT 2013-05-21T09:04:53Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10661 Progress of the Past? History in New South Wales Secondary Schools, 1972-1999 Clark Anna Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10661 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10662 Land Rights at Last! Norman Heidi In 1978 the Wran Government announced an Inquiry to investigate a range of issues including Aboriginal land rights recognition, the causes of Aboriginal social and economic disadvantage, heritage protection and commonwealth and state relations. The Select Committee, chaired by state member Maurie Keane, in its `First Report¿ that focused on land rights, not only fundamentally changed the way Government¿s liaise and consult with Aboriginal people, the Committee unanimously endorsed far-reaching recommendations including the ability to recover land, compensation for cultural loss and three-tier community driven administrative structure. All of this was set in the context of Aboriginal rights to self-determination and fundamental attachment to land as a cultural relationship and historical reality. The movement for land rights was the culmination of many years of land justice activism, shifting policy at the Commonwealth level and wider international movements contesting colonial rule and racism. More specifically the land rights movement in NSW was galvanised in response to the previous Government¿s renewed efforts to assimilate Aboriginal people and revoke reserve lands and the limited land rights recognition made possible through the Aboriginal Lands Trust (herein `the Trust¿). This paper argues a more focused and pronounced campaign emerged in the mid 1970s whereby land rights `time had come¿ as a result of Aboriginal political activism and the alliances formed with and among left social movements. This movement created the political climate for the Wran Government¿s announcement of the Select Committee Inquiry in 1978. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10662 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10659 From 'The Quiet Revolution' to 'Crisis' in Australian Indigenous Affairs Watson Virginia Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10659 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10657 Knowing the Place for the First Time: A Cuban Exile's Story Wyndham Marivic; Milanes Roberto Playa Abierta is a modern beach-side resort, one hundred kilometres west of Havana. Developed as a private resort in the 1950s, it was seized by the new revolutionary Cuban government in 1959 after its owner fled precipitately to Miami. This autobiographically centred and personally narrated paper reviews the history of Playa Abierta 1956 ¿ 2006 through the eyes of a Cuban New Zealander `Marta¿ whose uncle first developed the estate. In 1956 her holidays spent at Playa Abierta as a little girl were her most treasured Cuban moments. `At this altar¿, she says, `my uncle was the high priest.¿ In 1996 - after a 36-year absence from her native land - she returned for a visit, the only member of her extended family to have done so. Boldly and unannounced she walked through her uncle¿s house ¿ by then converted into a military recreational camp. On a subsequent visit, she met with members of her uncle¿s domestic staff whose relationship to that same loved beach was by then of many decades. Whose Playa Abierta was she re-visiting now? Who were the true claimants to that family sacred site? Today as she reflects on the private and public meaning of Playa Abierta, her exultation has given way to more complex feelings. The wonder at re-discovering the beach¿s beauty was overladen with the guilt of returning to Cuba while still under Castro¿s communist rule. Her sense of belonging was later undermined by a sad realisation that those who had stayed behind were also Playa Abierta¿s claimants. Above all, she is torn between family loyalties and the promise of a Revolution betrayed. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10657 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z