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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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    y separately published work icon Aboriginal History Journal no. 45 April Crystal McKinnon (editor), Ben Silverstein (editor), 2022 24620443 2022 periodical issue

    'This volume begins with Michael Aird, Joanna Sassoon and David Trigger’s meticulous research tracing the well-known but sometimes confused identity of Jackey Jackey of the Lower Logan River in south-east Queensland. Emma Cupitt describes the multivocality and intertextuality of Radio Redfern’s coverage of Aboriginal protests in Sydney as the 1988 Australian Bicentenary celebrations took place elsewhere in the city. Similarly approaching sources for their multiplicity, Matt Poll and Amanda Harris provide a reading of the ambassadorial work performed by assemblages of Yolngu bark paintings in diverse exhibition spaces after the Second World War.

    'Cara Cross historicises the production and use of mineral medicine—or lithotherapeutics—derived from Burning Mountain in Wonnarua Country, issuing a powerful call for the recognition of Indigenous innovation as cultural heritage. In a collaborative article, Fred Cahir, Ian Clark, Dan Tout, Benjamin Wilkie and Jidah Clark read colonial records against the grain to narrate a nineteenth-century history of Victorian Aboriginal relationships with fire, strengthening the case for the revitalisation of these fire management practices. And, based on extensive oral history work, Maria Panagopoulos presents Aboriginal narrations of the experience of moving—or being moved—from the Manatunga settlement on the outskirts of Robinvale into the town itself, on Tati Tati Country in the Mallee region of Victoria.

    'In addition to a range of book reviews, we are also pleased to include Greg Lehman’s review essay concerning Cassandra Pybus’s recent award-winning Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse, which considers the implications of our relationships with history and how they help to think through practices of researching and writing Aboriginal history.' (Publication summary)

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