HIST106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Queensland, Great Palm Island, United Nations Human Rights Council
HIST106 Lecture Notes Monday 16th October 2017
Understanding Palm Island
Last fortnight in the news
- Oct 6, Townsville: the activist Dr Evelyn Scott became the first Indigenous woman to
have a state funeral
- Oct 12, Darwin: Facing Two Fronts, an exhibition about Indigenous diggers and their
struggles for land & civil rights, opened at the National Archives
o To Frots eas oth the struggles the eperieed i ar ad the
struggles they experienced upon returning home – stolen wages, inequality
etc.
- Oct 12, Tamworth: Greens MP David Shoebridge called for an independent
investigation into the recent death in custody of Tane Chatfield, a 22 year old
Indigenous man
- Oct 13, Sydney: NSW government passed legislation to preserve Aboriginal
languages
o First time a legislation such as this has passed.
- Oct 13/ongoing: Australia likely to win bid to sit on UN Human Rights council, but
record on refugees and Indigenous rights (esp. incarceration) is being scrutinised.
Previously in HIST106
- Perceptio of Idigeous peoples as treaherous ad ugrateful for iilisatio
- Queeslad’s oloisatio later tha other parts of Australia – different experience,
age of rae ifluee
- Role of police on frontier
- Laws in 1865 and 1897 defined Indigenous children as neglected, Indigenous people
ards of state, hildlike
- Missions and reserves: role of Palm Island
- Jobs and money controlled, wages stolen
- Gradual extension of rights, freedoms, education, changing white attitudes – linear
progression?
- Argument: Coloial poer otiues, ad o-Indigenous Australians are its
eefiiaries
- Indigenous peoples and cultures as primitive relics – display and repatriation
What can we learn from the case of Palm Island?
- There is no one, simple, linear history of Australian Indigenous peoples
o Chloe Hooper travelled to palm island and other areas where the colonial
frontier mindset was still strong in 2004-2005-2006 etc.
- Ho past is the oloial/frotier past?
- Australia has come a long way but some struggles are ongoing
- To understand Palm Island in the 21st century we must understand its history
- Ongoing legacy/presence of colonial relationships in Aboriginal health, education,
housing, services, incarceration rates.
Quote fro Loitja O’Doaghue
- She made many of the above connections before the tragedy at Palm Island.
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Document Summary
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