At the time of his employment at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, David Huggonson researched and compiled an 'exhibition of photographs and documents depicting Aboriginal involvement in the Australian Army', through the Australian War Memorial. The exhibition toured Australia, then went on permanent display at the Australian War Memorial in 1993.
Source: Australian War Memorial.
Known Exhibitions:
Albury Regional Museum, 11 August - 27 September 1988.
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne March-April 1989.
Castlemaine Historical Sociey, Castlemaine 5-27 June 2000
Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative, North Geelong 30 June-17 July 2000
Gunditjmara Aboriginal Cooperative, Warnambool 20-30 July 2000
Brambuk Cultural Centre, Halls Gap 4-29 August 2000
Living Museum of the West, Maribyrnong 5-25 September 2000
Clunes Museum, Clunes 28 September-24 October 2000
George Evans Museum, Sunbury 25 October-21 November 2000
Swinburne University, Healesville 24 November-3 December 2000
Albany Residency Museum 5-29 April 2001
Bussleton Jetty Interpretive Centre 1-28 May 2001
Goldfields War Museum, Boulder, WA 30 May-30 July 2001
WA Museum Geraldton 3 August-2 September 2001
Centenary Bakery Museum, Hurstville, NSW 13 September-11 October 2001
Tuggeranong Homestead, ACT 18 October-4 November 2001
Too Dark for the Light Horse : Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People in the Defence Forces : Resource Book : Memorial Box 03
Judy Crabb
,
Madeleine Chaleyer
(editor),
Canberra
:
Australian War Memorial
,
1994
8234982
1994
selected work
information book
children's
'Educational material developed for the Museum-in-a-box scheme; includes case studies from the First, Second and Vietnam wars; documents; background historical material and a list of suggested activities for students; case studies profile; William Reginald Rawlings, Douglas Grant, Reginald Saunders, Leonard Waters, Charles Mene, Don Beale, Gary Oakley; suitable for secondary students.' (Source: TROVE)
'Academic interest in Australia’s heritage field has developed primarily around the ways its subject has been used to support dominant national interests. Understandings of heritage, however, are increasingly shaped by developments occurring in other nation-states, as well as those occurring at the international level. This article considers the changing nature of Australian notions of heritage within the context of the ‘transnational turn’. It does so in two ways. First, the article traces talk of transnationalism at a general level, considering especially theorisations around a materialist understanding of memory. Second, it considers what new representations of the past such a theorisation might call forth in the Australian context. As a point of illustration, the article focuses on the specific case of Australian war memories and their articulation within the heritage field.'
Source: Sage Publications.
A brief article about the exhibition compiled by David Huggonson titled 'Too Dark for the Light Horse'.
A brief article about the exhibition compiled by David Huggonson titled 'Too Dark for the Light Horse'.
'Academic interest in Australia’s heritage field has developed primarily around the ways its subject has been used to support dominant national interests. Understandings of heritage, however, are increasingly shaped by developments occurring in other nation-states, as well as those occurring at the international level. This article considers the changing nature of Australian notions of heritage within the context of the ‘transnational turn’. It does so in two ways. First, the article traces talk of transnationalism at a general level, considering especially theorisations around a materialist understanding of memory. Second, it considers what new representations of the past such a theorisation might call forth in the Australian context. As a point of illustration, the article focuses on the specific case of Australian war memories and their articulation within the heritage field.'
Source: Sage Publications.
