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Redfern Oral History: Ningenah - Sam Hookey
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. NINGENAH - SAM HOOKEY. Ningenah, grew up on The Block in the 1980s. His grandmother used to live in. He talked about growing up with the community spirit on The Block. Sadly, at just 41, Ningenah passed away in April 2011, after illness. My grandma moved out of Cowra, she didn’t want to be married to one of her own people. She moved from the country and she was like a gypsy. She first stayed in Taree, then Erskineville. When I came she always lived in. I got that from my gra...
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Redfern oral history: Col James
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. COL JAMES (1936 - 2013). Col James AM was an architect who had been involved in the development on the Block since its inception. He was a member of the Pemulwuy Vision Taskforce which endorses the housing project development plan of the Aboriginal Housing Company. I am here to ask you and talk to you, Col about The Block. Out of interest I was wondering how that term originated. Do you know anything about where ‘The Block’ came from? Give people some sort of hope. Anyway th...
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Redfern Oral History: Stories from round the country
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. Some Stories from round the country. Ara Irititja - Our stories database; Anangu social history (Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara). At the heart of it - Place stories across Darug and Gundungurra Lands. Bankstown Aboriginal Elders Oral History Project; Young days. Bennelong; Wangal man. Biripi Nation of the Manning Valley: Turark indigenous bush foods and medicines. Blue Mountains: Sacred Waters: The story of the Blue Mountains Gully traditional owners.
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Redfern Oral History: Col James
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS ABOUT THE BLOCK 2002. Paul Morris is originally from Kempsey. He is a proud father of three children, Paul, Jordan and Brittany. He has been coming to The Block since he was a kid and he is thirty-two this year. We are in Holden Street and we are going to talk to Paul Morris about some of his memories to do with the Block. He has just come here to share some of his stories and memories to do with his experiences here on the Block. Why would you choose...
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Redfern Oral History: Max Eulo
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS ABOUT THE BLOCK - 2002. 15 April 2002 and 21 January 2007. Uncle Max Eulo’s face is associated in Sydney with ‘Smoking and Welcome Ceremonies’. He remembers going to the Block in 1973. He used to ‘live off the land’ but his adventures took him to many towns in New South Wales and even overseas to America and New Zealand. He says, ‘I’ve had a good life.’. Uncle Max, can you give us a bit of background about yourself? I used to sleep at the Presbytery n...
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Redfern Oral History: Home
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Redfern oral history Aboriginal Koori Block Eveleigh AHC Gadigal. Thursday, September 01, 2016. Warami, wellama bami, budyari yaguna. Welcome, wherever you come from, good day. From language teacher Richard Green. Genevieve Grieves and Macleay Museum. Road to the KO, weekly YouTube show, every Thursday. A good news story about how community can help heal. Proud of our lads who welcome people who made poor. Choices but want to do good with their lives. [RAB]. What's on in September. What's on in October.
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Oral history: John Butcher
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. John was one of the Catholic priests who worked with Ted Kennedy in the early days of the Block. That story is still to come; here he reminisces about the setting up of South Sydney Community Aid and some of their early inititiatives, and community action that created Douglas Street People's Park. SOUTH SYDNEY COMMUNITY AID. The Aboriginal Legal Service grew out of and continued to be supported by SSCA. The problems they caused for the Aboriginal Medical Service,. We were al...
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Redfern Oral History: Mum Shirl talks with BOB MAZA
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. Mum Shirl talks with BOB MAZA. This is one of the interviews that Elaine Syron organised in the mid 1980s. Thank you to Elaine for digging deep into her many boxes of archives and finding this for us. As neither of these much loved and immeasurably productive people are still with us, [nor some of the people they talk about], this is a treasure, and it has some valuable information about Redfern's Black Theatre. MS It‘s a long time since I’ve known you. BM Nineteen and twenty.
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Trevor Davies
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Thursday, September 01, 2016. SSH July tribute edition to founder and news editor Trevor Davies. TREVOR DAVIES 25/5/1956 - 14/6/2011. Trevor Davies was a member of the Editorial Committee of the South Sydney Herald (SSH), a publication of South Sydney Uniting Church. He was born in Wales in 1956, to a strong working class family. He came to Australia in 1966, moving to Redfern in 1978. How did you get involved with the SSH? Trevor Davies: I was running a monthly Politics in the Pub. How does your persona...
