Shino Konishi
Who’s your mob?
by Shino Konishi, Julie Andrews, Odette Best, Brenda L. Croft, Steve Kinnane, Greg Lehman, and Uncle John Whop •
In his 1968 Boyer Lectures, After the Dreaming, anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner lamented that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples had been omitted from narratives of the nation’s past. Contending that this omission was ‘a structural matter’, he likened Australian history to ‘a view from a window which has been carefully placed to exclude a whole quadrant of the landscape’. He proposed that the kinds of stories which could bring Indigenous history into view for Australian readers would focus on the lives of individuals.
... (read more)The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A biographical history of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island by Ann Curthoys, Shino Konishi, and Alexandra Ludewig
by Georgina Arnott •
