My country, I still call Australia home: Contemporary art from Black Australia

1 Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody and Maireah Hanna, ‘This Land is Mine’, from One Night the Moon [soundtrack], MusicArtsDance films, Sydney, 2011. 2 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage, rather than Australian or Indigenous Australian artists. 3 See QANTAS Advertising webpages: ‘This hugely popular campaign ran from 1997 to 2009 and used Peter Allen's Australian classic "I Still Call Australia Home". The song was performed by the Sydney Children's Choir, the Australian Girls’ Choir and National Boys Choir, as well as the Gondwana National Indigenous Children's Choir. Taken from http://www. qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/i-still-call-australia- home/global/en. 4 ‘Full story behind why we wrote “Still Call Oz Home”’, http://www.myspace.com/thelastkinection/ blog/417380956. ‘Still Call Oz Home’, The Last Kinection, (2007). 5 Dr Ingrid Piller, ‘Yiman does not have a word for ‘massacre’, Language on the Move , 27 April 2012, http:// www.languageonthemove.com/language-migration- social-justice/yiman-does-not-have-a-word-for- massacre. 6 For further reading, see: Jonathan Richards, The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police , University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2008. 7 ‘The Recollections of Thomas Davis, Collected by Steele Rudd’, viewed online at http://espace.library . uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ :216890/F3517.pdf. 8 Bruce Elder, Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Australian Aborigines Since 1788 , New Holland Publishers, Frenchs Forest, NSW, 1988. 9 Henry Lawson’s ‘Freedom on the Wallaby’ was first published by David A Cumming in the Brisbane newspaper, The Worker , 16 May 1891, p.8. 10 The Queensland Cricket Association president rejected the ensuing claims that Gilbert had a suspect bowling action, saying that ‘every umpire whose business it was to decide the question passed him’. However, controversy about Gilbert’s bowling action abounded, no doubt contributing to a slump in form for a man many Queenslanders saw as a hero. There were suggestions that the colour of his skin obscured a ‘chucking’ action. Sunday Mail , 3 September 1995, p.1 by John Hay. 11 For more on Eddie Gilbert see Mike Coleman and Ken Edwards, Eddie Gilbert — The True Story of an Aboriginal Cricketing Legend , ABC Books, Sydney, 2002. 12 Bennett, in a letter from the artist, to Sue Smith, art writer for the Courier-Mail , 11 May 1995. 13 For more on the Redfern Address see australianscreen / National Film and Sound Archives: http://aso.gov.au/ titles/spoken-word/keating-speech-redfern-address/ and http://aso.gov.au/titles/spoken-word/keating- speech-redfern-address/notes. 14 The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Recognition Bill 2012 aims to begin the process to formally recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the constitution. 15 Former prime minister Kevin Rudd, Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples http://australia.gov.au/ about-australia/our-country/our-people/apology-to- australias-indigenous-peoples. 16 Eleanor Hall, ‘Recognition Act a step to constitutional change’ ( ABC News/The World Today ) http://www.abc . net.au/worldtoday/content/2013/s3689301.htm. 17 Tjukurrpa is used here as the most popular Aboriginal language translation of the concept of the dreaming, used in many languages in Central Australia and the Western Desert. Arthur Tjatitjarra Robertson Ngaanyatjarra people WA Tjinytjira 2006 Synthetic polymer paint on linen Proposed gift of Glenn Manser 23 22