"There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of ones native land." - Euripides 431 B.C.
indigenous history archive and education resource project
information on Black Australia's 200 year struggle for justice
This website is being developed as a comprehensive indigenous history resource collection. It currently includes
images from koori history, a regularly updated 'news & views' page
, a collection of essay's by Gary Foley, and special features on the
1965 Freedom Ride, the 1982 Brisbane Games demos, an updated section on the 1972 "Aboriginal Embassy", the 1976 Phillip Noyce film
Backroads, the art of Richard Bell, a section on the assimilationist propaganda magazine
Dawn, an extensive student resource section and works in progress - Cartoonists and Race in Australia, a Petrol Sniffing Fact File. Also a new index of newspaper reports on the Palm Island situation 2004 - 2006 and Koori political history timeline, an index of a range of material on the current controversy of the Australian History Wars and more.
Warning! This site contains images of indigenous people now deceased!
This project was created in 1998 and is a work in progress, developed, designed and maintained by Gary Foley
Notice: This site is under reconstruction throughout 2009
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