Ken Inglis, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1998.
Fiona Cameron, ‘Transcending Fear. Engaging Emotions and Opinions: A Case for Museums in the 21st Century,’ New Museum Developments and the Culture Wars, named issue of Open Museum Journal, 6 (2003). http://archive.amol.org.au/omj/volume6/volume6_index.asp
Mathew Trinca, ‘Museums and the History Wars’, History Australia, 1, 1 (2003), p. 88.
James E Young, At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 2000, pp. 96; 120.
Caroline Turner, ‘Tomorrow’s Museums’, Museums of the Future, The Future of Museums, named issue of Humanities Research, 8. 1 (2001), p. 1; Fiona Cameron, ‘Beyond Surface Representations: Museums, “Edgy” Topics, Civic Responsibilities and Modes of Engagement’, Contest and Contemporary Society: Redefining Museums in the 21st Century, named issue of Open Museum Journal, 8 (2006). http://archive.amol.org.au/omj/volume8/volume8_index.asp
From an Aboriginal perspective, various educational resources are available. The Aboriginal Education Reference Library offers an Eyre Peninsula Aboriginal History activity, developed in consultation with the Port Lincoln Aboriginal Community Centre and other Aboriginal community members. The Port Lincoln Aboriginal Community Council is located in the town centre and offers educational resources on the region’s Aboriginal history, as well as functioning as an agency for community programs and services.
‘An Oval to Honor First Settlers’, The News, 26 November 1952.
‘Historic Graves are Restored’, Port Lincoln Times, 4 July 1978.
Nat Traeger, ‘Memorial Marks Brutal History’, Port Lincoln Times, 3 August 1999.
Ibid.
Jane Haggis, ‘Placing the Post in the Landscape of Memory: Revisiting the Colonial Frontier,’ paper for the Cultural Landscapes Symposium, 2005. http//ehlt.flinders.edu.au/humanities/exchange/asri/project_cl.html
Ibid.
Tony Bennett, ‘Out of Which Past?: Critical reflections on Australian Museum and Heritage Policy’, Cultural Policy Studies: Occasional Paper No 3, Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Griffith University, 1988, p. 24.
Bennett, p. 14.
Jane Lydon, ‘Driving By: Visiting Australian Colonial Monuments,’ Journal of Social Archaeology, 5. No. 1 (2005).
Anna Haebich, citing Gitta Sereny, ‘Lest We Forget: Activists, Human Rights and the Stolen Generations’, paper presented to the Social Memory and Historical Justice symposium, Swinburne University, 13–15 March 2008.
Conclusion
Kercher, p. 6.
Neal, p. 18.
Mike Brown, No Longer Down Under: Australians Creating Change, Grosvenor Books, Toorak, 2002, p. 240.
Thomas Brown, ‘Concerning the murder and the following of the blacks and sheep: account prepared by Thomas Brown about 1901’, family papers of Mike Brown.
Brown, No Longer Down Under, p. 243.
Deborah Bird Rose, ‘New world poetics of place: along the Oregon Trail and in the National Museum of Australia’ in Coombes, p. 228.
Journey of Healing SA & ANTaR SA, Wodlianni. Stolen Generations Coming Home Reconciliation and Healing Event. 173rd Anniversary of the Letters Patent, Commemorative Booklet, 2009.
Leonard Bell, ‘Auckland’s centrepiece: unsettled identities, unstable monuments’ in Coombes, ed., p. 116.
Janna Thompson, p. vvii.
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