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'Aboriginal community–controlled radio station Radio Redfern was a critical site in the protests that took place in Sydney on 26 January 1988 against the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. This article focuses on a 17-hour recording of Radio Redfern’s broadcast on that day. It explores the important role that Radio Redfern played in the protests as a means of organising and as a site of protest itself. At the heart of the politics of the protests was the idea that Indigenous people had survived the onslaught of invasion and the ongoing attempt by the settler colonial project to eliminate and assimilate them. Radio Redfern – a station made by the community, for the community – is testament to this survival, which can literally be heard in the ‘liveness’ of the many voices one hears in the recording. The article seeks to understand the Radio Redfern recording in its full significance as a radio and an aural source. To do this requires not only a close-listening to the content of what is said, but also a closer listening to how things are said; how they reverberate in other speeches; to what other sounds can be heard; the multitude of voices; and the silences.' (Publication abstract)
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Radio Redfern, 26 January 1988
Aboriginal History Journal
Aboriginal History Journal
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