Wilcannia Health Service

Wilcannia Health Service is a built project that consisted of redeveloping the hospital. This included additions to benefit the health needs of community in consultation with the community.

Place theory and place maintenance in Indigenous Australia

This paper applies a cross-cultural theory of ‘place’ to Australian Indigenous groups, both in terms of their classical and post-colonial places and cultural landscapes. It explores how the ability of Indigenous people to access, protect, maintain and manage their places and landscapes, has been compromised by Cultural Heritage, Native Title and Planning legislations.

Names and Naming: Speaking Forms into Place (The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia)

This chapter of The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia, titled Names and Naming: Speaking Forms into Place, explores the neglect of using Aboriginal names of people and places. The paper focuses on the significance that Australian Indigenous people in general give to the meaning and use of proper names of people and places and how with some exceptions, this neglect continues today. It investigates this neglect through the reflection of the prevailing preoccupation of anthropologists and linguists with the semantico-referential meanings and functions of language rather than with the culturally shared notions and images all names evoke, provoke and embody.

Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: The Aboriginal architecture of Australia

Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: The Aboriginal architecture of Australia is a research document published by the University of Queensland Press in 2007. The research explores a range and complexity of Aboriginal-designed structures and spaces to debunk inaccurate notions of early Aboriginal architecture and settlement. It additionally features a brief overview of post-1970 collaborative architecture between white Australian architects and Aboriginal clients, as framework for ongoing debate on Aboriginal lifestyles and cultural heritage.

Exploring ‘Aboriginal’ sites in Sydney: a shifting politics of place?

This essay was written by Melinda Hinknkson with the aim of addressing the issues that arose in the context of the research that were not canvassed in the authors other work, Aboriginal Sydney. The book was a guide to fifty places in the greater Sydney region designed to be used as a straightforward guidebook as well as a selective and short social history of Sydney. It aims to address what exactly was being produced in this process of uncovering Aboriginal history in Sydney while exploring what kinds of representations of Aboriginality were emerging. It further explores the idea that these representations differed from those identified and analysed in relation to Sydney’s Aboriginal sites in the past.