HSEMESTER ONE,oni 2016 • WEEK 8 Soit INDIGENOUS EDITION 2 HONI SOIT INDIGENOUS EDITION SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT INDIGENOUS EDITION SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 8 3 LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Letters Another Letter We, the Indigenous Collective ask you to join us in acknowledging the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation upon whose stolen land the University of Sydney is built. It is a privilege to learn and gather on Aboriginal land. about the EU The Gadigal people are the traditional custodians and caretakers of this land but to fully express the complex and spiritual relationship Aboriginal and I am writing as the discourse person did not believe that the experience; and what’s more I Don't like the idea of Torres Strait Island people share with their sacred lands in nearly impossible. surrounding the Evangeli- goals of intersectional feminism believe that under the auspices cal Union’s status has been were worth promoting. Similar- of the Union people should be Autonomous Editions? We acknowledge that the Gadigal people and those of the greater Eora nation were the first to suffer, resist and survive the brutalities of White Supremacy led astray. Yes, Tony Abbott’s ly, I can sympathise with the EU allowed to express their beliefs in in Australia. The centuries long resistance of Australia’s Indigenous community endures as non-Indigenous Australians continue to benefit from the conflation of autonomous not wanting to elect someone a peaceful way that enriches their Are you a racist? colonisation of sovereign Indigenous land. SRC-funded spaces and reli- who does not endorse the cen- University experience. gious clubs in The Australian tral tenets of their religion to the Sincerely, Desperate to get Issy Hellig We acknowledge the atrocities of the Stolen Generations: the untold destruction it inflicted on Indigenous families through forced child removal, the was naïve at best and ridic- head of the organisation. While I come from a club background Arts III, AUJS ulously misguided at worst your name published identity struggles it gave rise to. The ongoing kidnapping of Indigenous children and calculated attempts to dismantle our families continue today, with – as the EU state themselves, where we do not have such a more children than ever being taken away by the colonial Australian government. With bi-partisan backing, the White Australian government’s legacy they try very hard to include provision – as people have many anyway you can? of disregard towards Indigenous people, land and culture continues. non-Christians in their events, different ways of expressing unlike the Wom*n’s Collective their Judaism – I would cer- We acknowledge the struggles of Indigenous wom*n, who face the highest rates of sexual assault and domestic violence in this country and Indigenous for instance, which is mainly an tainly not want the society to men, who experience the highest rates of incarceration and suicide in this country. We stand with our non-binary Indigenous family and acknowledge that autonomous organisation. be stacked by anti-Semites as Send a letter to our culture’s progressive stance on gender and sexuality was first suppressed by conservative settlers and their repressive laws. However, the points stands this would clearly be against the agenda of the club. that SRC-funded collectives still [email protected] do come with a certain agen- I also understand that there We offer our deepest respect to Indigenous leaders throughout history, who fought to defend our land, our culture and our people. We pay our respects da (one that I am happy to pro- is a feeling that Christians are a by Friday 5pm. to the brave warriors of the Frontier Wars who are continually forgotten in Australia’s war histories, to the scores killed by foreign disease, to every mote, but an agenda nonethe- part of a certain ‘hegemony’ in Indigenous child, adult and elder who has died at the hands of White Supremacy and to all those who continue to live in the face of it. less). Even if they identified as a our majority-WASP Australian wom*n themselves, it would be society, unlike other minority Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded. inconsistent with the vision of religions, but it bears reminding the collective to elect someone to that being Christian is not exclu- an Office Bearer position if that sive to the Caucasian Protestant EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITORIAL Georgia Mantle Hey you mob at Georgia Mantle Upcoming Events Contents CONTRIBUTORS Sydney College Mike Butler, Andrew Bell, Crys- tal Coelho, Sophie Gallagher, As I sit down to write this edi- have done to get me here; here Simone Armstrong, Barry Corr, torial the paper is all but fin- at this University, here at my 2 / LETTERS 12 / ART ished, a week’s worth of work job and here at this place in my of the Arts! Free University of Western Walk for Justice for Enoch Mailangi, Katerina Bam- Sydney Launch. Colleen, Evelyn and Clinton pos, Natasha Gillezeau, Students and months of planning lay at life where I can say I am happy. 2 / EVENTS 16 / LEARNING Support Aborignal Communties, my feet. I feel proud but main- The people I need to acknowl- We’re Mariko Smith (Yuin woman) and Janelle Evans "Joing us to launch the Free Uni- A Indigenous led walk to demand Shayma Taweel, Evelyn Aralu- ly relived, who ever thought edge the most are my par- (Bundjalung and Dharug woman), and we are the versity of Western Sydney and for justice for the unsolved murders of 4 / ANALYSIS 18 / PERSPECTIVE en Corr, Jodie Pall, Ellen Burke, I would be here editing a ents, for never giving up first Wingara Mura Indigenous Fellows at Sydney a panel discussion which attempts three Indigenous people in the ear- Kitty-Jean Laginha, Nathan Shel- paper? Not me that's for sure. on me and for sacrificing College of the Arts (SCA) on Rozelle Campus as to address the foundation of Aus- ly 1990's 6 / REFLECTION 20 / SRC REPORTS don-Anderson, Riki Scanlan I often get caught up in think- all you have to get me here. part of the University’s Wingara Mura Leadership ing about purpose and plans, Program. tralia’s racist architecture to aid ARTISTS the purpose of people, places I hope you enjoy this special A bit about us: we are both Associate Lecturers at in the development of a collective Thursday 5th May 10:30am @ Hyde 7 / PROFILE 21 / SRC CASEWORKERS and things and the plans the Indigenous Edition of Honi SCA. Mariko is currently completing a PhD about understanding of racial oppression. Park Fountain Emily Johnson, Dean Cross, world might have for me and Soit, I urge you to delve into this Aboriginal cultural resurgence involving tied-bark Thursday 28th April @ Bankstown Keeping Kid Out of Gaol: 8 / POETRY 22 / PUZZLES Fatima Rauf, Georgia Mantle everyone else. This week I paper with an open mind leav- canoes and representing Aboriginal experiences of thought there was something ing preconceived ideas of what canoe making through visual sociology. Janelle is Arts Centre Indigenous Youth Rights 10 / PERSPECTIVE COVER out to get me, to ensure I an Indigenous Edition might starting a PhD about a First Fleet convict’s letters didn’t get this paper finished look like behind. This paper which explore first contact encounters and the search National Reconciliation Hosted by the Sydney University Week at SCA Amnesty International Society this I'm Aboriginal, this is my art. and that maybe it just wasn’t is multi-dimensional just like for the sublime in the Australian landscape. event will include a discussion pan- This is Aboriognal Art. Emily in my plan to do this. I began Indigenous people, we are not Alongside developing our own research and arts Thursday 26th May el and a craft event Johnson telling myself “the universe limited by our identity but rath- practice, we are here to provide academic support for isn’t out to get you”, a phrase er draw strength from it. SCA’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, 10am: Welcome to Country and SPECIAL THANKS that a friend told me last year develop exciting Indigenous Units of Study like smoking Ceremony around Sydney Monday 9th May 4pm @ Isabel when I was getting overly dra- In love and rage, next semester’s elective unit of study CATE 2025: College of the Arts Campus Fidler Room Manning House 12pm: BBQ hosted by SCASS at Peter Walsh, Dominic Ellis, Alexi matic about the state of my Practising Contemporary Indigenous Art, and to 14 / FEATURE life. That became my mantra Georgia Mantle organise opportunities for both Indigenous and non- SCA Campus Scholarly Musings: Polden, Alex Downie, Sophie Indigenous Activism and Gallagher, Anna Hush, Andy for the last few days as time Indigenous SCA staff and students to interact with Evelyn Araluen Corr reflects on her double life as an Monday 30th-Friday June 3rd Social Media Spaces Mason, Max Hall, Sam Langford, after time something seemed Indigenous art and culture. Indigenous Academic as she writes on Decolonising Academia Students and staff install their own Andrew Bell, Michael Sun, Siob- to go wrong. Too often I It is so important to have an Indigenous presence designed Hands in SCA's "Sea of Scholarly Musings is a series of han Ryan, Courtney Thompson think I write my successes off and voice at SCA, and we hope to develop a robust and as chance, without acknowl- dynamic Indigenous research unit that incorporates Hands" installation on the lawn events that was established to facili- edging the work I or those Indigenous ways of knowing, cultural and creative near the SCA Auditorium.