What Do We Want? A Political History of Aboriginal Land Rights in New South Wales

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-611
Author(s):  
Lorina L. Barker
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Political History ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of

Today’s Special Guest Star : Aboriginal Studies!

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
M. Sisley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
High School ◽  
New South ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Teacher

It is a western New South Wales High School with strong winter sunshine filling the classroom. The teacher moves nervously in from the brick corridor with its interchangeable Education Department prints, and stands just inside the door.“Right, pay attention please,” the Social Sciences and History teacher says. The group gives the teacher their concentration because they have come to expect interesting and controversial work in these sessions. Even though a few of them are tired and full of canteen lunch, they turn in their seats and begin to chew on the ends of biros.“This afternoon we have a visitor to the school who I am sure most of you know. She is here to help you…understand and come to grips with the Aboriginal Studies segment of your work…and she’ll probably straighten me out on a few points where I might have gone wrong, too, so I’ll ask you to pay attention to Mrs Copago and save your questions up for a minute or two.”Mrs Copago is a little bit nervous, too, being in the formal atmosphere of the brick blocks, but she has known most of the students since they were drooling, so she quickly relaxes and settles into the task of talking about her culture and her people.There is no shortage of questions from the students, and from the teacher, and they are all anxious to learn. Mrs Copago does not mind the questions that the students have heard at home, and she explains about unemployment and drinking in the light of the area’s history and racism in Australia. She talks about the skills and values Aborigines have that most Australians do not have and she ends on a positive note with hope for the Aboriginal community of the area and for Australia generally. The students and the teacher are well pleased by the session and Mrs Copago challenges them to change their own values and their family’s by thinking about different, equal cultures, land rights and the history of Australia.

scholarly journals The Germans in Sydney

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurgen Tampke
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
South Wales ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design And Construction

From the beginning German-speaking people have played a small but significant part in the history of Sydney. In fact the colony’s first governor, Arthur Phillip, was of German–English parentage: his father, a German teacher in London, came from the Hessian town of Frankfurt. Phillip Schaeffer, the Supervisor of the First Fleet, was also of Hessian background, and so was Augustus Alt, the first Surveyor of Lands in New South Wales. Alt played an important part in the design and construction of Sydney during the first ten years. On retirement both men joined the ranks of the colony’s early free settlers.

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