LIBRARY | CATALOGUE | MANUSCRIPT FINDING AIDS INDEX Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library Papers of Aden Ridgeway MS 4375 CONTENTS COLLECTION SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2 CULTURAL SENSITIVITY STATEMENT.......................................................................................2 ACCESS TO COLLECTION...........................................................................................................2 COLLECTION OVERVIEW............................................................................................................3 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE..................................................................................................................4 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS..............................................................................................................5 Series 1 Aden Ridgeway, 2000-01 .........................................................................................5 Series 2 Reconciliation – Speeches, 1999-2002 ....................................................................6 Series 3 Reconciliation – Apology, 1997-99 ..........................................................................7 Series 4 Reconciliation – Mandatory sentencing, 2000 .........................................................8 Series 5 Reconciliation – Stolen generations, 1999-2001 ......................................................8 Series 6 Reconciliation – United Nations, 2001 .....................................................................9 Series 7 Reconciliation – Inventing the wheel, 2000 ..............................................................9 Series 8 Reconciliation – Noel Pearson/Welfare, 1999-2001 ................................................9 Series 9 Reconciliation – Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR), 1999-2003 ..............10 Series 10 Reconciliation – Reconciliation Place, 2001 ...........................................................10 Series 11 Republic – Preamble, 1999 ....................................................................................10 Series 12 Neville Bonner, 1971-2000 ....................................................................................12 Series 13 'Native Title Amendment Bill 1996 ..........................................................................12 Series 14 Dedicated Indigenous seats, 2001 ..........................................................................12 Series 15 Speeches, 1999-2005 .............................................................................................12 Series 16 Message stick, 2001-05 ..........................................................................................13 Series 17 Miscellaneous .........................................................................................................13 BOX LIST.....................................................................................................................................14 Page 1 of 14 COLLECTION SUMMARY Creator: Aden Ridgeway Title: Papers of Aden Ridgeway Collection no: MS 4375 Date range: 1971-2005 (bulk 1999-2005) Extent: 0.36 metres (2 boxes) + poster in Manuscript Plan Cabinet Repository Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Back to top CULTURAL SENSITIVITY STATEMENT It is a condition of use of this finding aid, and of the collection described in it, that users ensure that any use of the information contained in it is sympathetic to the views and sensitivities of relevant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Deceased persons Users of this finding aid should be aware that, in some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, seeing images of deceased persons in photographs, film and books or hearing them in recordings etc. may cause sadness or distress and, in some cases, offend against strongly held cultural prohibitions. Back to top ACCESS TO COLLECTION Access and use conditions Open access reading, copying and quotation for material on public record, while the Depositor's permission is required for the copying or quotation of all other material. [Access code A1 B1 or B5] Back to top Copying and quotation Copying of, and quoting from, unpublished material is subject to the conditions stated above by the Depositor of the manuscripts but are also subject to copyright restrictions. The Copyright Statemen t on our manuscripts page contains further information. Where material is copied or quoted the source of the material must be acknowledged. Obtaining access, copying and quotation permissions In cases where these permissions are required they must be obtained in writing and must be signed. For material where the Depositor is not the Copyright holder the Copyright Act 1968 applies. Page 2 of 14 Email Library Staff or telephone them on +61 2 6246 1182 for assistance in obtaining permissions. Preferred citation Items from this collection should be cited as [Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Aden Ridgeway, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, MS 4375, Series [no.], Folder or Item [no.] Inter-Library Loan Manuscripts are not available on Inter-Library loan. Back to top COLLECTION OVERVIEW Scope and content note This collection contains the files relating to Australian Indigenous affairs that were used by Aden Ridgeway while he was an Australian Democrats Senator for New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia Parliament from July 1999 to June 2005. Ridgeway was only the second Indigenous Australian to be elected to this Parliament. The files include speeches by Ridgeway, parliamentary proceedings, correspondence and other papers relating to reconciliation, the apology and the stolen generations and mandatory sentencing. Files also relate to Noel Pearson's and Ridgeway's differing views on welfare for Australia's Indigenous people, Reconciliation Place in the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra, ACT, the 1999 proposed Preamble to the Australian Constitution, Neville Bonner, the 'Native Title Amendment Bill 1996', dedicated Indigenous seats and other matters relating to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Back to top Provenance The collection was deposited in the Library by Aden Ridgeway in June 2005. Material separated from collection Twenty three video cassettes and four audio tapes, mainly off-air recordings by the Australian Parliamentary Library for Senator Aden Ridgeway, received with this deposit, were transferred to the Audiovisual Archive where some are held at V9023 - V9031. For access to this material contact the Audiovisual Archive. Arrangement of collection Most of the papers were received in a set of files. The Library has arranged the collection into series based on the Portfolio/Committee names of these files and the descriptions reflect the information given on the file covers. The order in which the papers were received within the files has been retained. Page 3 of 14 Related material For a complete listing of works by and about Ridgeway that are held by the Library and for other related material consult Mura ® , the AIATSIS catalogue . For access to audiovisual material contact the Audiovisual Archive. Back to top BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Aden Derek Ridgeway, a Gumbaynggir / Gumbainggirr man, was born in Macksville on the north coast of New South Wales in 1962. He spent his early years on the Bellwood Aboriginal Reserve in northern New South Wales before moving with his mother and a brother to Sydney where he lived mainly around the Redfern and Alexandria area. Ridgeway spent about five years at St. John's College (Woodlawn College), a boarding school in Woodlawn, Lismore, on an Aboriginal Study Grant. Ridgeway's first job was, for a very short time, as a spot-welder but, at seventeen, he was employed as a technical assistant and later a ranger, with the National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales, working in a number of national parks. After about five years Ridgeway moved to the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs as a Policy Officer. He later worked in various New South Wales public service positions including for the New South Wales Public Service Board, Corporate Services, Department of Administrative Services, Industrial Relations and Employment, and the Department of Minerals and Energy. He worked on various matters affecting Aboriginal people, access to land, cultural and heritage protection and environmental issues as well as in training, equal employment opportunity and human resource management and redeployment and skills retraining of redundant workers at the time of the closure of the Homebush Brickworks in Sydney, New South Wales. After fourteen years in the New South Wales Public Service, Ridgeway moved to the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council becoming the Executive Director. Ridgeway had also worked part time as an Aboriginal Assessor in the Land Environment Court for about five years which involved, for example, conciliating disputes under the Land Rights Act when there were disputes in Land Councils of appeals against a decision of the Minister to refuse a land grant. A foundation member of the Sydney Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Regional Council, Ridgeway served on the Council for six years. He was a member of the National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title advising the Federal government on the Mabo judgement and the subsequent Wik legislation