Before lunch (9.15 - 12.00)

Introduction to the course

2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum

Preparatory work on the first obligatory assignment (podcast)

Preparation

1. Come prepared to share with your peers your reasons for choosing this subject

2. In Australia (and beyond) debate raged during the lead-up to what become known as the ‘Indigenous Voice referendum’. Source at least one written article in which the writer or those interviewed support/s a YES vote and one written article supporting a NO vote. Have these with you in class and be ready to discuss them in detail.

3. You will be required to complete three obligatory assignments. The first of these will be based on your choice and analysis of a podcast offering an indigenous perspective.

Consult the first obligatory assingment and familiarise yourself with its design and requirements.

Then listen to the following broadcast from ABC Radio National, which you will be using in class.

Star maps and supernovas: How the stars continue to guide us - ABC listen

Choose a section of the podcast which resonates with you (no more than 10 minutes). Using the instructions in obligatory assignment 1 as your guide, paraphrase the ideas/contributions you consider most significant. In addition to this, reflect on at least one new thing you encountered while listening to the podcast.

4. Regarding “The Uluru Statement from the Heart”:

What is Uluru and why make it the focus of the statement?
Why the use of the words ‘the Heart’, and might there be a double meaning?
What is your understanding of the two types of ‘sovereignty’ presented in this text?
What does “Our children are aliened from their families” mean? Why not use the verb ‘alienated’?
What is the current political debate in Australia about the meaning and promise of a ‘makarrata’?

5. Regarding “Indigenous Voice: co-design process”:

What are your perceptions of the consultation process?
What form is being proposed for the National Voice?
How do you react to the words in quotation marks: “obliged” and “expectation”?

Reading

Presentation from seminar

Indigenous Texts in English Introduction

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After lunch (13.15 - 16.00)

What is indigeneity?

Reading

International Labour Organization. C169 – Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). Published 1989.
Kovach M, Kovach M. Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. Second edition. University of Toronto Press; 2021 (introduction and chapter 3).
Singh M. It’s time to rethink the idea of the “Indigenous”.
United Nations. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Published 2007.