Indigenous News
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Trinity College Seminars on Indigenous Australia Associate Professor Richard Broome speaks on the topic 'Aboriginal Agency: Dealing With Settler Colonialism in Victoria'. 7 May 2008, 5.15 pm - 6.15 pm, Sharwood Room, Trinity College. More information about this seminar can be found here. |
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Six New Indigenous Students Students from north Queensland, Melbourne, country Victoria, and Broome have all come into residence at Trinity this year, studying degrees in Commerce, Environments, Science, Medicine and Creative Arts. More information and photos can be seen here. |
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Saying 'Sorry' at Trinity To mark the historic day when the Prime Minister apologised to the members of the Stolen Generation, 13 February 2008, Trinity College held a special ceremony of reflection and prayer. Read more about it at News @ Trinity. |
| 2007 |
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Indigenous success at Young Leaders Summer School 22 young Indigenous Australians from Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory were part of the December 2007 Young Leaders Summer School, which ran from 2 to 15 December. From Worawa Aboriginal College and Mooroopna Secondary College in Victoria, to Kalumburu at the northern tip of Western Australia, Yirrkala, Minyerri and Darwin in the NT, and Areyonga in the centre, the students joined in the activities, learning about university life and lifting the horizons of their aspirations. The experience was exemplified in the gift to the College by the students from Areyonga of their painting, entitled 'Learning Different Cultures', at the School's Valedictory Dinner, which was given, in the words of Pitjantjatjara teacher Hilda Bert, 'on behalf of all the Indigenous people at the Summer School'. A report is available from Melbourne's The Age newspaper, and a more detailed review of the Summer School, with pictures, is available at the Indigenous Perspectives Website.
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Solid academic progress in 2007 Trinity's resident Indigenous students have all continued to progress through their university studies, recording satisfactory outcomes in 2nd semester results. Jarrah MacGregor's work with the 'Creating Indigenous Futures' project at Nungalinya College in Darwin contributed to her sound performance in her studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, while 1st year Medicine student Ryen Diggle has much to be satisfied about with his end-of-year results. Joe Clifford (Law/Commerce) and Katie Cahill (Physiotherapy) continue to make progress, with Katie to be congratulated on an excellent H1 (a feat also performed by 1st year Arts/Law student, Rebecca Martin). All Trinity's Indigenous students are to be congratulated on their achievements this year, not only in academic outcomes but in the many other ways in which they contribute to the Trinity and University of Melbourne communities. |
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'Painting the Rocks White' - Peter Gebhardt's visit to Areyonga, August 2007 In August 2007, Trinity alumnus and retired Judge of the Victorian County Court, His Honour Peter Gebhardt, visited the community of Areyonga on the western limit of the traditional tribal lands of the Western Arrernte and north to the limit of the Pitjantjatjara land, in the Northern Territory. The Federal Government's emergency response to protect Aboriginal children in the NT had been announced some weeks prior to his visit, and inspection teams had already visited Areyonga in connection with this intervention. Read Judge Gebhardt's insightful report in full. (PDF, 59 KB) |
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Minyerri, and Barunga in 2007 The annual visit by Trinity students and staff to the remote NT community of Minyerri, on Alawa country 700 km southeast of Darwin, took place during September. The largest group of students so far (11, with one from Janet Clarke Hall) participated in the activities of the Minyerri School, including the School's sports day - a lot of fun! - and learned about the community, particularly relevant in the context of the Australian Government's Emergency Response in the Northern Territory. They broadened their experience this year by visiting the communities of Barunga and Wugularr, on the country of the Jawoyn people south of Katherine, and also by attending the grand final of the Katherine District Football League, in which the Ngukurr Bulldogs triumphed over the valiant Arnhem Crows. A full report on this year's visit can be viewed in Trinity Today. |
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'Creating Indigenous Futures' In 2007, Trinity Drama lecturer Rosemary Blight, and 2nd year VCA student Jarrah MacGregor, conducted the drama component of the 'Creating Indigenous Futures' project at Nungalinya College, Darwin. The project proved to be a great success, with the students who participated putting together two short films (Waggin' and When They Stole Us) that were shown to a packed room of teachers, parents, and elders (some of whom with direct experience of the Stolen Generations) at Nungalinya College. More can be seen in Trinity Today. |
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'I don't wanna play house'
Trinity College Junior Common Room, Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 7.30 pm. An audience of Trinity students, staff, and friends of the College was spellbound by Tammy Anderson's performance of the play she had written and directed, telling her own life story: I don't wanna play house. A full report about her performance is available in Trinity Today. |
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Academic success for two Trinity students
Sana Nakata and Andreas Vorst-Hopkins, both recipients of the Oodgeroo Scholarship during their time in residence at Trinity College, have been successful in obtaining First Class Honours in their respective undergraduate degrees - Sana in Law, Andreas in Arts. They join Lilly Brophy as graduates of the University of Melbourne who have been wonderful members of Trinity's residential community and who will now move onto conquering new challenges in their post-University careers. The full story is available in Trinity Today. |
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Bruce Pascoe visits Trinity In August, Bruce Pascoe, of Bunurong and Cornish heritage, met a group of interested Trinity students and staff over lunch in the Sharwood Room. The author of more than a dozen novels, short story collections and works of non-fiction, including the award-winning Shark, Bruce 's stories have been published in six languages and nine countries. His life's work, the theme around which hang his many other achievements, is the struggle of the first Australians for a fully realised place in contemporary Australian life. In Bruce's 2007 book, Convincing Ground, he sets himself the task of doing what most of us, whatever our point of entry into the debate about Aboriginal Australia, agree needs to be done: an honest reading of our violent past, a mature acceptance of how that past plays into our present, and a brave, determined imagining of the future. Students who attended the lunch found it to be a stimulating and special occasion, in which they learned a great deal from a superb teller of stories. |
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Wildflower Members of this exciting new band from Arnhem Land came to Trinity in May to have a look around and meet some of our students and staff, before performing live on the north court of the University Student Union at lunch. Wildflower comprises five young Indigenous women and three Indigenous men from the remote community of Mamadawerre. They were in Melbourne to record their first album, after having been named as one the 'Next Crop' of Australian bands by the ABC's Triple J. |
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Visit by Langani Marika 2007
Ms Langani Marika, and her niece, Ms Rärriwuy Marika, with the additional assistance of Ms Jenny Home-Marika. |
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Summer Schools at Trinity - A View from Minyerri
TRINITYToday Number 64 - May 2007 |
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Four New Indigenous Students
TRINITYToday Number 64 - May 2007 |
| 2005 - 2006 |
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Joe's talents recognised
Trinity Update - May 2006 |
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Trinity's first Indigenous graduate
NEWS@Trinity - Friday 9 December 2005 |
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Learning from Minyerri
TRINITYToday Number 62 - December 2005 |
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Minyerri girls at Summer School
TRINITYToday Number 62 - December 2005 |
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Ivy-clad walls give way to eucalypts
Monday 25 April 2005 |
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First Yorta Yorta Scholar
Friday 15 April 2005 |