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Events 2012
27 August — Professor Tim Rowse will be speaking at Manning Clark House on his just-published collection of essays, Rethinking Social Justice, from 5:30–7:30pm. Bookings via Manning Clark House.
27–30 July — Sean Gorman will be appearing at the 2012 Kimberley Writers Festival at Kununurra, and will be a guest the week before on ABC Local Radio Broome on their Saturday sports program.
24 July — Russell McGregor will speak at the State Library of NSW from 6pm. For bookings please go to the SLNSW booking page.
23 July — Winners for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced. Everyone at ASP has their fingers crossed for Russell McGregor and his book, Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation, which has been shortlisted for the Prize for Australian History.
17 July— Associate Professor Fiona Paisley will appear with Professor Tim Rowse at Manning Clark House from 5:30–7:30pm. On Wednesday, 18 July, Dr Paisley will hand over to the AIATSIS Collections three notebooks that belonged to AM Fernando. Bookings can be made via the Manning Clark House website.
10 & 12 July — ASP held two lunchtime events at the 2012 Australian Historical Association conference in Adelaide, with Professor Angela Woollacott launching The Lone Protestor, and Professor Ann Curthoys speaking about two history titles from 2011, One Law for All? and Indifferent Inclusion.
3 July — Associate Professor Russell McGregor from JCU, recently shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for History, spoke at Manning Clark House on his recent book, Indifferent Inclusion, and the history of constitutional change. On the following Thursday Russell was in conversation with Professor Ann McGrath from ANU at the National Library of Australia.
26 June — AIATSIS Principal, Mr Russell Taylor, officially opened the 2013 Stanner Award at AIATSIS. In conjunction with this launch, UNICEF Australia CEO, Dr Norman Gillespie, officially launched 2011 Winner, Dr Hannah McGlade's book, Our Greatest Challenge: Aboriginal children and human rights. In the words’ of the 2011 Stanner judges, Dr McGlade's book is a 'brave and powerful contribution to understanding a major social evil'. Get your scholarly manuscripts in for your chance to be published by Aboriginal Studies Press, to get all the details click here.
26 June — Dr Lisa Strelein, Director of Indigenous Country and Governance Research Program, AIATSIS, spoke at Manning Clark House, Canberra, on the promise of the Mabo High Court decision, and the subsequent 20 years of law making and implementation. Lisa’s book, Compromised Jurisprudence: Native title cases since Mabo, is available on the ASP website.
26 June — Dr Fiona Paisley was in conversation with Dr Heather Goodall about her book, The Lone Protestor, at the State Library of NSW, Sydney. Audience members were fascinated to hear about AM Fernando, a remarkable Aboriginal Australian who was a forerunner for generations of later activists.
23 May — Professor Peter Read launched The Lone Protestor by Fiona Paisley at Avid Reader Bookshop, West End, in Brisbane. Fiona was also on air with Philip Adams that evening on RN’s Late Night Live, and has undertaken a wide range of media since then.
19 May — We attended the NSW Teachers Federation Indigenous teachers’ conference held at Federation House, Surry Hills. Copies of all our books featured in the ASP’s wide range of teachers notes were for sale, with sample sets of notes for teachers to peruse.
15 May — Patrick Sullivan, Senior Research Fellow at AIATSIS, spoke at Manning Clark House, Canberra. Entitled ‘Belonging Together: How Australian national identity depends on Australian Indigenous people’, the event was well attended, with Patrick answering a wide range of questions after his presentation.
3 May — We visited Warralong community in WA’s Pilbara to be part of celebrations around the autobiography by Monty Hale, Kurlumarniny: We Came from the Desert.
Events 2011
Book Launch of Belonging Together, Tuesday 22nd November, ANU Co-op bookshop, Canberra
Belonging Together: Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Policy was recently launched by Mr Mike Dillon, Deputy Secretary, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
From left: Michael Dillon, Patrick Sullivan and AIATSIS Principal Russell Taylor. Photo Courtesy AIATSIS
Famous footballer Pele receives a copy of Australia: William Blandowski’s illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia
SBS journalist, Craig Foster, met with the famous Brazilian soccer player as part of plans to establish a training program for young Indigenous soccer players.
Pele was pleased to receive a copy of the Blandowski Encyclopedia.
Mr Craig Foster (left) presents a copy of William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia to Pele.
Brisbane Writers Festival 2011
Professor Deborah Bird Rose, Margaret Daiyi and Dr Payi-Linda Ford attended the Brisbane Writers Festival on Saturday 10 September and spoke about the second edition of Country of the Heart,
www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au
Deborah (left) talking to a school boy and Margaret (right) signing a book. Photo Courtesy AIATSIS
Book Launch of Legends, Monday 15th August, MCG, Melbourne
There was a huge turn out for the launch of Sean Gorman's Legends: The AFL Indigenous Team of the Century with Michael Long doing the honours. The launch was at the MCG on Monday 15 August.
AIATSIS Chair, Prof. Mick Dodson with Legends’ launcher, AFL greats, Michael Long, and Glenn James (right) at the MCG with a batch of current young players. Photo courtesy AIATSIS
AFL legends, Glenn James, Syd Jackson, Michael Long with author, Sean Gorman. Photo courtesy AIATSIS
Book Launch of Joan Martin (Yaarna), Thursday 21st July, Curtin University, Perth
ASP held a very successful launch of the book Joan Martin (Yaarna) at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University of 21st July. The book was launched by double Miles Franklin award winner, A/Professor Kim Scott. A/Professor Simon Forrest was the MC.
Joan Martin’s son Greg with Bruce Shaw at the launch of Joan Martin (Yaarna). Photo courtesy AIATSIS
Mingli McGlade, the Noongar elder who provided the welcome to country. Photo courtesy AIATSIS.
ASP took part in the second National Indigenous Writers and Educators Conference at Wollongong University, 17-19 May, www.ntwriters.com.au, and the Aboriginal Writers Forum and the subsequent Guwanyi, the third National Aboriginal Writers Festival at the NSW Writers Centre in March.