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MS 4054

Coral Dow’s Aboriginal Tent Embassy Press Clippings



ACCESS

Material is available to be read. A reasonable portion may be copied for private study and research and/or published with acknowledgement. [Access code A1 C1b]

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scope and content note

Date range: 1972-2000

Extent:  .09 metres (1 box)

Coral Dow donated this collection to the Library in May 2000. The papers have been sorted into chronological order by the Library.

This collection consists of photocopies and printouts from web sites, mainly of press articles from major Australian newspapers from 1972 to 2000. They were used by Dow to compile Aboriginal Tent Embassy: icon or eyesore? (Canberra, Department of the Parliamentary Library, 2000). A copy of this work is held with this collection and another copy is held in the Library’s pamphlet collection at P DOW. There are also transcripts from the ABC radio programs A.M., P.M. and the 7.30 Report, from the SBS TV First in line programme and some media releases. Aboriginal flag issues are also covered. Included are:-

‘The Aboriginal Embassy: its purpose and aims’, by John Newfong, Identity, v.1, no. 5 July 1972, p. 4-6. [Article also held in the Library’s serials collection at S 21/10 and at RS 21/32]

‘Building on the NT Land Rights Act, or dismantling it?’ speech by Josie Crawshaw, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner NT (Northern), March 1999

‘Public space and protest: an analysis of protest at Parliament House, Canberra’, Labour & community: proceedings of the Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History … 2-4 October, 1999, edited by Robert Hood and Ray Markey (Wollongong, 1999)

‘Fire creator for justice is awoken’ (1999), by Eleanor Gilbert. Manuscript of article submitted to Chief of Staff to consider for feature. [Article available in Balayi vol.1, no.1 (Jan. 2000), p.77-96 at S 30/14]

‘Face to face: the Aboriginal Test Embassy and the National Portrait Gallery’, by Subhash Jaireth, Australian Book Review, December 1999/January 2000, p. 23-28

A tape of the Vital Issues Seminar ‘Tent embassy: diversity and evolution in Aboriginal politics – film screening (introduction, questions and answers)’ chaired by Senator Aiden Ridgeway, who introduced the session, was received with the collection. It has been transferred to the Institute’s Audiovisual Archives where it is held at DOW_C01. To access audiovisual material contact the Audiovisual Archives Program.

For a complete listing of material by Coral Dow, or about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, that is held by the Institute, consult the Institute’s Mura® online catalogue.

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Finding Aid compiled by Judy Churches, February 2002