Heidi Norman Heidi Norman i(8808851 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Kamilaroi
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1 Best Books of 2023 : Our Experts Share the Books That Have Stayed with Them Julienne Van Loon , Anna Clark , Heidi Norman , Carol Lefevre , Peter Mares , Jen Webb , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 5 December 2023;

— Review of Between Water and the Night Sky Simone Lazaroo , 2023 single work novel ; Graft : Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land Maggie MacKellar , 2023 single work autobiography ; Borderland Graham Akhurst , 2023 single work novel ; The Anniversary Stephanie Bishop , 2023 single work novel ; Wandering with Intent Kim Mahood , 2022 selected work essay ; Eventually Everything Connects Sarah Firth , 2023 selected work essay graphic novel
1 ‘Why Didn’t We Know?’ Is No Excuse. Non-Indigenous Australians Must Listen to the Difficult Historical Truths Told by First Nations People Heidi Norman , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 4 July 2023;

'Big things are being asked of history in 2023. Later this year, we will vote in the referendum to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative body – the Voice to Parliament – in the Australian constitution.' (Introduction)

1 In The Australian Wars, Rachel Perkins Dispenses with the Myth Aboriginal People Didn’t Fight Back Heidi Norman , Anne Maree Payne , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversations , 21 September 2022;
1 How the Dark Emu Debate Limits Representation of Aboriginal People in Australia Heidi Norman , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 July 2021;

'Anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe, recently published a book titled Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate. This book offers a dramatically different account of the social, spiritual and economic worlds of Australia’s First Peoples “before conquest” to what is presented in the acclaimed work by Yuin writer Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu.' (Introduction)

1 2 y separately published work icon Does the Media Fail Aboriginal Political Aspirations? AIATSIS Research Publications (publisher), Amy Thomas (researcher), Andrew Jakubowicz (researcher), Heidi Norman (researcher), Australia : AIATSIS Research Publications , 2020 20785414 2020 single work thesis

'For too long Australia's media has failed to communicate Aboriginal political aspirations. This unique study of key Aboriginal initiatives seeking self-determination and justice reveals a history of media procrastination and denial.

A team of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers examine 45 years of media responses to these initiatives, from the 1972 Larrakia petition to the Queen seeking land rights and treaties, to the desire for recognition expressed in the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart. This analysis exposes how the media frames stories, develops discourses, and supports deeper historical narratives that corrode and undermine the intent and urgency of Aboriginal aspirations, through approaches ranging from sympathetic stalling to patronising parodies.

This book can be used by media professionals to improve their practices, by Aboriginal communities to test media truth-telling and by anyone seeking to understand how Aboriginal desires and hopes have been expressed, and represented, in recent Australian political history.'

1 1 y separately published work icon Black Stories Matter Heidi Norman (presenter), Amy Thomas (presenter), 2020 Sydney : University of Technology, Sydney , 11 Nov 2020 20752277 2020 series - publisher podcast

'Ever since Captain James Cook evaded British instructions to take possession of the continent now known as Australia "with the consent of the natives", the interests of settlers have dominated media reporting on Aboriginal people.

This year, there's been a global awakening. The events of 2020 including the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19 have challenged traditional narratives, creating new opportunities for how we tell stories, who tells them and what stories are told.

Black Stories Matter is a five-part series that brings together media researchers, historians, former policy makers and Aboriginal journalists whose work is disrupting the patterns of the past.

Our guests have had front row seats to what's gone wrong in Australian media reporting and share with us how Aboriginal perspectives have been silenced, and what the media can do to make things right.

It's time to start a new narrative about Aboriginal people, with Aboriginal people because Black Stories Matter.

The Black Stories Matter podcast is hosted by Professor Heidi Norman and Amy Thomas and was produced by Impact Studios at the University of Technology Sydney - an audio production house that combines academic research with audio storytelling for real world impact.

This podcast is inspired by the book 'Does the Media Fail Aboriginal Political Aspirations: 45 years of news media reporting of key political moments' by Amy Thomas, Heidi Norman and Andrew Jakubowicz from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS.

The Black Stories Matter podcast was made with the support of Aboriginal Affairs New South Wales as part of a strategy to improve the dynamics between Aboriginal people and governments.'

Source : Introducing Black Stories Matter on Apple Podcasts

1 The Black Lives Matter Movement Has Provoked a Cultural Reckoning about How Black Stories Are Told Amy Thomas , Andrew Jakubowicz , Anne Maree Payne , Heidi Norman , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 November 2020;

'When the Black Lives Matter movement re-emerged powerfully this year, it encouraged a cultural reckoning about how Black stories are told, reaching deep into Australia’s mainstream media. Once more, research showed just how unselfconsciously white Australian media is.

Our study of 45 years of mainstream print news reportage of Aboriginal self-determination found the media overwhelming reports from and assumes a white standpoint.

Published in a book titled Does the media fail Aboriginal political aspirations? 45 years of news media reporting of key political moments, our findings signal that the media’s problems go deeper than representation.

A podcast series based on the book has now been released. In this five-part series, titled Black Stories Matter, we bring together media researchers, historians, policy makers, a former Aboriginal Affairs minister and members of the growing cohort of Aboriginal journalists, to discuss how we can disrupt the negative patterns of the past.

1 Freeman Review : Documentary Relives the Time Cathy Freeman Flew, Carrying the Weight of the Nation Heidi Norman , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 September 2020;

— Review of Freeman Laurence Billiet , 2020 single work film/TV

'Where were you when Catherine Freeman won gold at the Sydney Olympic Games?'

1 Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky : The ‘View from the Shore’ Told through Songlines, with Generosity Heidi Norman , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 18 August 2020;

'This year marks the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s first landing on the east coast and his claim of territory for the British Empire. Like most scheduled events of 2020, commemorations of this milestone were scuttled by the pandemic.

'For some, the cancellation of Cook events relieved a simmering trepidation. But many Aboriginal communities had worked hard to consider their engagement in the 250-year commemoration and communicate the “view from the shore” among themselves and to wider audiences.

The film Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky, directed by Steven McGregor, canvasses Indigenous Australian accounts of, and responses to, Captain Cook’s arrival.'

Source: Introduction.

1 ‘Around the Meeting Tree’ : Methodological Reflections on Using Digital Tools for Research into Indigenous Adult Education in the Networking Tranby Project Heather Goodall , Heidi Norman , Belinda Russon , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , vol. 47 no. 1 2019; (p. 53-71)

'The authors reflect on the methodology of using digital tools to learn about the experiences of Indigenous people enrolled from 1980 to 2000 as adult students at Tranby, an Indigenous-controlled post-secondary college. This collaboration between Tranby and the University of Technology Sydney drew on debates in post-colonial studies, oral history and archival studies. The authors found that participants prioritised personal control in all social media communication and engaged most actively in person-to-person communication to take part in this research. Participants were eager to share memories of student experiences but they have preferred to contribute to online publications which focused on activities, rather than on individuals. To support participants’ desire for control over digital communication, the authors slowed the pace of online outcome development to allow flexible and ongoing consent arrangements along with non-custodial approaches to oral, archival, photographic and material collections.' (Publication abstract)

1 Eve Vincent ‘Against Native Title’ : Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia Heidi Norman , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 2018; (p. 74-76)

— Review of Against Native Title : Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia Eve Vincent , 2017 single work biography

''Against native title’ is an ethnography of one community’s rejection and partial re-engagement with the legal determination of native title over their country.' (Introduction)

1 Four Thousand Fish and Broken Glass Connect Sydney’s Aboriginal Past to Its Present Heidi Norman , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 16 January 2018;

— Review of Broken Glass 2018 single work drama

'Last year, the federal government’s swift rejection of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament left an already despairing Aboriginal polity limping out the final weeks and days of 2017, myself included. Without offering an alternate plan for protecting and advancing Aboriginal rights at the national level, hope for Aboriginal futures was in short supply.' (Introduction)

1 1 y separately published work icon What Do We Want? : A Political History of Aboriginal Land Rights in New South Wales Heidi Norman , Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2015 8808877 2015 single work criticism

'What do we want? is the first study of the most far-reaching and innovative Aboriginal land rights laws in the country. Heidi Norman tells a story full of possibility, tensions and entanglements as Aboriginal people took up the political demand of self-determination and worked to address their community disadvantage, all the while grappling with the expectations of government.'

'The laws, passed in 1983 by the Wran Labor Government, provided a mechanism for recovering land and the fifteen-year funding stream, to compensate for loss of land and culture, was intended to fund the more than 120 representative Aboriginal land councils, as well as support Aboriginal-run enterprises.'

'Yet chronic disadvantage continues for many Aboriginal people in NSW and Aboriginal land councils are yet to fully realise the expectations of their members.'

What do we want? reveals the challenges of Aboriginal adjustment to modernity as Land Councils focus their efforts on profitable enterprises to resource community social and cultural initiatives.' (Source: Publisher's website)

1 y separately published work icon NEW : Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies Heidi Norman (editor), Philip Morrissey (editor), Sydney : UTS Press , 2015- 15296349 2015 periodical (4 issues)

'NEW: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies was initiated by Philip Morrissey from the University of Melbourne and Heidi Norman from the University of Technology Sydney in 2015. The journal provides a platform for publishing undergraduate scholarship in Indigenous studies and attracts high quality student work.' (Publication summary)

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