Topics: Events: North West

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1997 - view

Belvoir St Theatre and SOCOG production of “Black Mary” at the Wilson St Carriage works in Redfern

1997 - view

The monument to “The Lost Tribes of the Hawkesbury” is forgotten for decades after it is unveiled in 1952 and surrounded by blackberries

1997 - view

Newcastle City Bi-Centenary. Its foreshore commemorative activities focus on Reconciliation

1997 - view

Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families

1998 - view

Courthouse setting: Wollombi - the Aboriginal meeting place, the Aboriginal Evidence Bill of 1844 (to address the rejection of Aborigines testimony in court), and the Aboriginal trackers who work with Wollombi police for nearly a century from 1840

1998 - view

The Council of the City of Newcastle acknowledges that Awabakal and Worimi are the first peoples of this council area, and are the proud survivors of more than two hundred years of continuing dispossession

1998 - view

Newcastle Council, in negotiation with Indigenous peoples, also commits itself to further reconciliation between Indigenous and other communities by working for a treaty and/or other agreements of reconciliation

1998 - view

20,000 people trace and can claim descent from the Darug

1998 - view

Associate Professor to Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Research Centre at the University of Newcastle. Blair compiles Darkinjung: Lands, Waters and Peoples (2000), and Darkinjung: Our Voices, Our Place (2003)

1999 - view

Ngoroekah Theatre Company which develops from almost 20 years of collaboration between Freewheels Theatre in Education, the Community Arts Centre and the Goori community

1999 - view

The Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation is developing many exciting projects for the Wonnarua people. Current projects include purchasing culturally important properties such as St Clair Mission site and the Blacks Camp to develop tourism and agriculture to assisting young people with education and housing the Morrison Collection of Wonnarua artifacts, currently with the Australian Museum

2000 - view

Gateway Project at the Yamuloong Resource Centre

2000 - view

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Document, Australian Declaration Towards Reconciliation presented to Australian people

2000 - view

Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) - a vibrant touring company employing students and graduates of the new Careers in Dance training program

2000 - view

Unveiling of Memorial at Myall Creek Massacre Site

2001 - view

Centenary of Federation

2002 - view

Wollotuka offers programs across the University's three major campuses: from access, through undergraduate degrees to postgraduate doctoral programs

2003 - view

An exhibition “Darkinjung Community: Standing Strong” is held at the Gosford Regional Gallery

2003 - view

This exhibition seeks to revise the mistaken official view of history, which states that Aboriginal people in Broken Bay and the surrounding area are “vanquished tribes”

2003 - view

cultural regeneration activities – including this exhibition – that seek to build an inclusive sense of place