Surviving childhood abuse Redfern Now – again! Feature — page 10 e r VIeW — pages 11-14 NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN OCTOBER ’13 CIRCULATION 22,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE EVELEIGH GLEBE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN PADDINGTON REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND Georgina Wilcox Photo: Google Local wins computer science scholarship Leah Purcell presents Archie Roach with his Deadly for Contribution to Healing the Stolen Generations Photo: Joseph Mayers MiriaM PePPer what really appeals to me is making sense of it,” says Wilcox. “From DARLINGTON RESIDENT and weather forecasting to traffic planning, University of Sydney doctoral student and from understanding animals’ Medley of Deadly achievers Georgina Wilcox has just been behaviour to examining financial awarded the Anita Borg Memorial flows, data mining has all sorts of Sandra BeeSton was won by Redfern organisation created a pathway for others across Scholarship. Named after American important applications for today.” Koori Job Ready, for helping young the entire arts and music sectors … at computer scientist and advocate for In addition to her research, Ms Wilcox THE 19TH Annual Deadly Awards, Aboriginal people receive training and a time when typecasting, stereotypes women’s participation in computing is also passionate about outreach to celebrating the Australian Indigenous gain employment in construction and and discrimination was the ‘norm’ in and technology Dr Anita Borg, the school students to encourage them community’s highest achievements in hospitality. Australia’s arts industry”. Google-sponsored scholarship is open to consider a career in computer the fields of the arts, entertainment, The second part of the ceremony In the music category, young to women studying computer science science. Despite the expanding role sports and community services, were in the Opera House Concert Hall pop artist Jessica Mauboy was the and computer engineering degrees. of computers in our lives, the number staged last month. The awards, based started with a tribute to late Yothu big winner of the evening with two of domestic computing graduates has on more than 76,000 votes from the Yindi lead singer, Dr Yunupingu, by awards, one for her single “Something’s Ms Wilcox has a background in halved over the last ten years. Wilcox is public, saw thousands of glamorously musicians close to the band including Got A Hold Of Me” and the second mathematics and computing and is a part of several programs that aim to clad award nominees and spectators Paul Kelly, as well as members of for Best Female Artist, while country now partway through a PhD at Sydney counteract this trend, including Sydney converge at the Sydney Opera House Dr Yunupingu’s family who played musician Troy Cassar-Daley won Best University’s School of Information University’s Compass social inclusion for the ceremony. together a moving rendition of Yothu Male Artist. Musician and singer Technologies. Her project has involved program, which targets children Yindi’s “Mainstream”. An homage Archie Roach also won two awards, working with behavioural ecologists from disadvantaged backgrounds to The first part of the awards took was paid to veteran actor Steve Dodd with Album of the Year, as well as from Israel and computational encourage them into higher education. place with the Sunset Ceremony who received a standing ovation as the award for Lifetime Contribution geometry experts from the Netherlands Wilcox has also tutored senior high outside the Opera House, which he walked up on stage to accept the to Healing the Stolen Generations, to identify patterns in the movement school students at the National celebrated the best fashion designers, Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement which he accepted with great emotion. of Jackdaws (a bird belonging to the Computer Science School (NCSS). artists and journalists. Also awarded award. The Deadly’s organisers His song “Took The Children Away” crow family). Wilcox examines the “I love watching students get was an Employment category, which introduced Dodd as “an actor that raised awareness in Continued on page 2 birds’ trajectories to help determine motivated to tackle problems, and which birds lead and which follow. Her bring their creativity to bear. I also research is an ecological application get a kick out of helping them shift of data mining – a mathematical and from seeing a computer as something such as dismantling and rebuilding will enter the male-dominated sector. computational process of discovering that somebody else has programmed, computers and writing simple “Before there were computers as we National Computer Science School: patterns in large datasets. to seeing it a tool that they can use computer games. Through programs know them now, a ‘computer’ was a www.ncss.edu.au “There is a famous quote: ‘We’re themselves,” she says. like this, and the NCSS Challenge woman who did manual calculations. Girls Programming Network: drowning in data but lacking in Ms Wilcox is also involved in the online programming competition, There is no reason why women www.ncss.edu.au/gpn knowledge’. Generating data is getting Girls Programming Network, which which is attracting more girls each can’t be more strongly involved in Compass program: cheaper and easier all the time, but runs activities for high school girls year, she hopes that more women computing today.” S www.sydney.edu.au/compass Support independent media Guest Speaker will be psychiatrist Dr Anthony Harris, President of the Schizophrenia Fellowship NSW. SSH dinner/fundraiser Music performances by I Cantarini and Salta. 7-10pm. The South Sydney Herald is hosting a fundraising dinner on Tickets $70. All donations greatly appreciated. Friday October 18, at The Settlement Neighbourhood Centre in Reserve your seat by email: [email protected] (You will be notified of payment options). 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Foot forward Stolen Generations “at a time when no The award for Education, for which one was listening”, said the organisers. the Redfern organisation AIME and SSH more of these workshops open to the Roach himself was forcibly removed its founder Jack Manning-Bancroft community.” from his family when he was three were nominated, was given to Deadly SYDNEY’S DIRTYFEET is a not- There is also a professional arm years old and never saw his parents Sista Girlz and the David Wirrpanda for-profit contemporary dance to the project this year, with four again. After talking about the song Foundation for their work with young organisation run by artists. young aspiring dancers offered the ASSISTANT EDITOR Louisa Dyce and thanking the audience, he simply Aboriginal girls. Throughout September and October opportunity to work more intensively added: “I’m just one of the stolen kids, The ABC’s hit series Redfern Now, DirtyFeet is presenting “The Right in the studio. Ms Vassallo says that DISTRIBUTION you know. I’m a stolen kid come good.” whose second season premieres on Foot Project” – dance workshops this experience “is essential for Ross Smith Also notable was the recognition of October 31, was well represented with for people with and without dancers with and without disability [email protected] retired NSW magistrate Pat O’Shane’s Deborah Mailman winning the award disability between the ages of 14 to experience the workings of a DESIGNER work for Indigenous rights and being for Best Actress. Mailman thanked the and 26 years. The workshops are professional dance environment”. Robert Young “a genuine and inspiring role model crowd via a video as she was unable led by Sarah-Vyne Vassallo, who Former Restless Dance Theatre www.theloop.com.au/rdfy for others”, with the Marcia Langton to attend the ceremony. Fellow Redfern was recently awarded a Winston Artistic Director, Philip Channells, Lifetime Achievement award: Ms Now star and co-host of the Deadlys, Churchill Fellowship for excellence is mentoring the project and says PRINTER Spotpress PTY LTD O’Shane became the first Aboriginal Luke Carroll, won Best Actor. The series in integrated dance practice. The Right Foot “promises to narrow 24-26 Lilian Fowler Place person and the first woman to head also won the award for Best TV Show. the divide between mainstream and Marrickville, NSW 2204 a ministry when she was appointed It was no surprise when the award The Right Foot Project is a unique integrated dance practice”. www.spotpress.com Minister of Aboriginal Affairs in 1981. for Best Movie was handed to the opportunity for emerging dancers The Right Foot Project is supported Ms O’Shane stressed the importance critically acclaimed and commercial with and without disability to connect by the NSW Government through REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS of acknowledging elders and their hit The Sapphires. Actress Miranda with professional artists in a creative Arts NSW and Ageing, Disability and “We gratefully acknowledge the many volunteer contributors and distributors achievements: “We do stand on the Tapsell, who played one of the singers, and inclusive way.