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'The biography of well-known and much-loved Tasmanina Aboriginal Elder Ronnie Summers has hit the bookshop shelves. Launched in Hobart this month, Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman is the intimate story of a musician, storyteller and craftsman.' Source: Koori Mail (2009) no. 464, p. 41
The fourth annual Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Knowledge: Dialogue or Conflict in the Academy? [ISIK] conference will be held in Perth, Western Australia ,on 30 November 2009 and on December 1 in Fremantle. The event is convened by the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia and the Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Notre Dame. One of the features of the conference will be the launch of a special issue of the literary journal Westerly which will include short fiction, poetry, articles and essays by Aboriginal authors.