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Report First Nations Community Consultation Report 2019 Report First Nations Community Consultation Report 2019 By Laura McBride First Nations Curator Mariko Smith First Nations Assistant Curator Contents 2 Overview 2 Curatorial Team The Australian Museum 3 Background 3 Acknowledgements respects and acknowledges 3 Director’s Statement 4 First Nations Community Consultation the Gadigal people of the 5 Methodology 5 ‘Have your say!’ Campaign 6 Distribution Eora Nation as the First 7 Results 7 Question 1 Peoples and Traditional 8 Question 2 10 Nations Map 12 Question 3 Custodians of the land 14 Question 4 16 Question 5 18 Question 6 and waterways on which 22 Question 7 24 Critical Summary the Museum stands. 25 Conclusion 26 Appendices We acknowledge Elders past and present. Overview The 2020 Project is a First Nations-led response to the upcoming 250th anniversary in Background 2020 of James Cook’s voyage on the HMB Endeavour along Australia’s eastern coastline during 1770. The project will result in an exhibition and associated programming that will In May 2018, the AM appointed Laura McBride in the role of First Nations Curator (as part of the Museum’s Aboriginal take place at the Australian Museum (AM and the Museum) in the second half of 2020. and Torres Strait Islander Collection team).1 The First Nations Curator is to deliver a special exhibition addressing the This report provides an overview of The 2020 Project and the First Nations community impact of Cook’s arrival on the eastern coast in 1770, and consultation undertaken to determine the objectives and themes of the project. his ongoing colonial legacy on First Nations peoples and their communities (current working title is The 2020 Project). From June to November 2018, the First Nations Curator Curatorial Team planned and conducted community consultation with Director’s Statement Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, initially in In 2020, Australia will mark the 250th anniversary New South Wales (NSW) communities. In September 2018, of first contact with the British on the east coast the AM appointed Mariko Smith in the part-time role of First of Australia by James Cook. Historically, Aboriginal Nations Assistant Curator. Together, Laura and Mariko make voices and perspectives on these events and their up The 2020 Project Curatorial Team. consequences have been largely ignored. The exhibition is the centrepiece of The 2020 Project, Given this skewed view of history, the AM is providing and is due to show in the second half of 2020 at the a platform for First Nations communities to respond Australian Museum. to the events of 1770 and ongoing consequences through The 2020 Project. Acknowledgments To understand what topics and stories Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities would like to have The 2020 Project Curatorial Team would told through The 2020 Project, community consultation like to thank: was undertaken in 2018. Laura McBride Mariko Smith – All of the First Nations peoples and communities I welcome the results of the First Nations community Laura is a Wailwan woman and Mariko Smith is a Yuin woman and who contributed their knowledge and feedback to The 2020 Project; consultation, and sincerely thank the Aboriginal and First Nations Curator in the Exhibitions, First Nations Assistant Curator in Torres Strait Islander respondents for giving the Engagement and Cultural Connection the EECC branch of the AM. – The AM’s First Nations staff for their support, assistance Museum their feedback and insight. (EECC) branch of the AM. in consultation, and preparing material to present on Mariko focuses on Indigenous community-based cultural The 2020 Project: Sharni Jones, Nathan Sentance, Kim McKay AO, Director & CEO Laura’s curatorial approach centers First Nations resurgence initiatives and incorporating Indigenous ways Courtney Marsh, and Sara Khan; and voices and interpretation of objects and histories so of knowing into curatorial and artistic practices. – Anna Forster, Katelyn Matthews, and Tony Power that communities represent themselves and their Mariko’s academic and professional qualifications include for assisting The 2020 Project Curatorial Team in cultures within the Museum. a combined Bachelor degree in Arts and Laws (University of the review of the raw survey data for their analysis. Laura’s academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Sydney) conferred in 2005 and 2007 respectively, Graduate We would like to acknowledge and pay our respects Arts (University of Sydney) conferred in 2008 (double Diploma of Legal Practice (College of Law) conferred in 2008, to the Old People – the Ancestors and Elders, past Major in Psychology and Australian Indigenous Studies), Master of Museum Studies (awarded with Merit: University and present – who guide us in their wisdom through and Master of Aboriginal Education (University of of Sydney) conferred in 2012, and Doctor of Philosophy from Country, culture, and community. Technology Sydney) conferred in 2012. the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney (completed in December 2018 and degree to be conferred in June 2019). Her PhD thesis focused on the cultural resurgence of Aboriginal tied-bark canoe making in south- eastern Aboriginal communities, with the topic inspired by a museum’s conference event. She is also a 1 Australian Museum (2018). Annual Report 2017-18 (Sydney: Australian Museum Wingara Mura Fellow and Associate Lecturer at Sydney Trust), p. 43: https://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/documents/39225/ College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. australian-museum-annual-report_2017-18.pdf (accessed 03/12/2018). 2 AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM The 2020 Project: First Nations Community Consultation Report 2019 3 Methodology The 2020 Project’s exhibition has the capacity Question 1 for profound change in how museum audiences Respondents were asked to identify whether they are learn about First Nations lived experiences. Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or both Aboriginal First Nations and Torres Strait Islander or neither. The Curatorial Team’s overarching community consultation strategy was to prioritise First Question 2 Nations peoples’ involvement in the Respondents were asked to identify their Nation, Community exhibition development. language or cultural group or community (singular or plural, as relevant). The primary aims of this strategy were to: – inform First Nations communities across Question 3 Australia about The 2020 Project at the AM; Respondents were asked to specify their residential Consultation – understand their views on the 1770 events postcode so the Curatorial Team can ascertain the and their subsequent consequences; and geographical reach of the survey. – ask them directly what they want (and do not want) to see in an exhibition responding to the 1770 events. Question 4 Respondents were asked what words and thoughts come ‘Have your say!’ Campaign to mind when they think about the Australian Museum. The 2020 Project’s community-centred ‘Have your say!’ Question 5 campaign involved a voluntary, short, seven-question survey to gather the feedback and opinions of Aboriginal and Torres Respondents were asked what words and thoughts come to mind when they hear or see the name Captain James Cook. Strait Islander peoples to help further develop The 2020 Project brief and provide direction for exhibition content. Question 6 The survey responses will especially assist The 2020 Project Curatorial Team in deciding the exhibition themes, Respondents were asked what topics or issues they would messages, interpretive strategies, ideas for object selection like the AM to address in this exhibition that responds to or commissioned works, facilitating evaluation and feedback the anniversary of 1770. to communities. Question 7 The survey also collected relevant information and feedback on the AM. This will inform the AM’s First Nations-related Respondents were asked what is something that they strategies for improving practices regarding First Nations would not want to see in this exhibition that responds cultural collections and interpretation within the Museum. to the anniversary of 1770 and why. The ‘Have your say!’ survey consisted of the following questions which had been designed to be answered anonymously. 5 Results Distribution Question 1 805 The 2020 Project Curatorial Team aimed to capture meaningful information across a large representative Are you Aboriginal &/or First Nations sample size. The survey was directly distributed to First Nations communities in the following manner: Torres Strait Islander? persons – In-person, with hard-copies of the survey filled out responded by the facilitating First Nations team member or First ‘ The 2020 Project Nations respondents themselves during conversations, to the survey face-to-face interviews, and participation in focus Curatorial Team groups; and % aimed to capture – Electronically, with the First Nations respondent clicking 94.5% 3.9 on a link which was emailed or forwarded to them, taking ABORIGINAL BOTH ABORIGINAL meaningful them to The 2020 Project’s SurveyMonkey™ digital portal, AND TORRES STRAIT or via the SurveyMonkey link posted on the ‘Indigenous ISLANDER information Australian Culture’ Facebook™ page during the last week across a large of the consultation campaign. % Given the tight timeframe set for developing The 2020 1.6 representative Project and limitations in resourcing, the First Nations TORRES STRAIT Curator and First Nations Assistant Curator initially relied ISLANDER sample size.’ upon their networks of personal and professional contacts in First
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