Who were bennelong and Pemulwuy? Museums in Sydney and interpretation of eora aboriginal culture

Abstract

The Eora Aboriginal People are the original inhabitants of the Sydney region [in NSW, Australia]. There are an estimated 2, 000 Aboriginal rock engravings in Sydney. Some museums in Sydney now acknowledge the traditional Aboriginal owners and use Eora words to name their exhibitions. These include: Ngaramang bayumi – music & dance (Powerhouse Museum); Merana Eora Nora – first people (Australian National Maritime Museum); Yiribana (Art Gallery of New South Wales); and Cadi Eora Birrung: Under the Sydney Stars (Sydney Observatory). The Aboriginal history of Sydney, however, is only told at the Museum of Sydney with installations, videos and spoken exhibits about Eora, the indigenous peoples of Sydney. This paper reviews the Eora Aboriginal exhibits at the Museum of Sydney. It questions whether visitors to Sydney learn about Bennelong and Pemulwuy, two key Aboriginal figures in the the early European settlement around Sydney Harbour. Sydney Aboriginal Discoveries on their Dreamtime cruise of Sydney Harbour provide another interpretation of Eora history and culture. The paper suggests the Eora heritage of Sydney should be more widely interpreted in Museums, National Parks and other public venues to rightfully acknowledge this Aboriginal history.     

Using the Gallup polls

Murray Goot, Policies and Partisans: Australian Electoral Opinion 1941 to 1968 (Occasional Monograph No. 1), Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1969 (Mimeo.), pp. 10 + 219, $3.75.

Murray Goot and Jaki Ilbery, Australian Public Opinion Polls: Index 1941–68 (Occasional Monograph No. 2), Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1969 (Mimeo.), pp. 40 + iv, $1.00. (Both obtainable only from above address —make out cheques to Sydney Monographs.)     

Two judicial biographies

C. H. Currey: Sir Francis Forbes: The First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Angus and Robertson Sydney, 1968, pp. 586, $10.00.

C. H. Currey: The brothers bent: Judge‐Advocate Ellis Bent and Judge Jeffery Hart Bent. Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1968, pp. 176, $4.75     

Cities without politics

Max Neutze, Australian Urban Policy, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1978.

Leslie Kilmartin and David C. Thorns, Cities Unlimited: The Sociology of Urban Development in Australia and New Zealand, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1978.     

Effect of dimensions of place attachment on residents’ word-of-mouth behavior

The purpose of this study is to examine and compare the effect of residents’ different dimensions of place attachment on their word-of-mouth (WOM) behavior in two cities: Sydney, Australia and Shanghai, China. A six-dimensional construct of place attachment is proposed based upon a detailed literature review: four attitudinal dimensions (place identity, place dependence, affective attachment, social bonding) and two interactional dimensions (place memory, place expectation) are proposed to reflect different aspects of a resident's attachment to a place. To test the dimensionality of place attachment and relationships between constructs, a survey was completed by 691 residents in the two targeted cities (361 from Sydney and 330 from Shanghai), and a structural equation modeling instrument was applied to analyze the data. The findings of the empirical study statistically support the dimensionality of place attachment proposed, and reveal that, in general, interactional dimensions of place attachment have an effect on WOM behavior. The results suggest that WOM behavior of residents of the two cities is influenced by different attitudinal dimensions of place attachment: Shanghai resident's place identity and social bonding predict one-to-one WOM, while Sydney residents’ affective attachment to Sydney influences their one-to-one WOM behavior. This analysis provides insights into residents’ psychology and behavior in different tourism destinations, as well as important inputs for the sustainable development of destination branding and C2C tourism communication in these two cities.     

Soviet foreign policy

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Edwina Moreton and Gerald Segal (eds), Soviet Strategy Toward Western Europe, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.296. $15.95 (paper)

Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), The USSR and the Muslim World, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.298. $65.00 (cloth)     

Affirmative action

Marian Sawer (ed.), Program for Change: Affirmative Action in Australia, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1986, pp. 170. $22.50 (cloth), $10.95 (paper)

Gabriel Moens, Affirmative Action: The New Discrimination, Sydney, Centre for Independent Studies, 1985, pp. 112. $11.95 (paper)     

Elusive polis: Explaining the MFP

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Ross E. Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto (eds.). The MFP Debate: A Background Reader. Bundoora: La Trobe University Press, 1990. 166 pp. n.p.g. (paper).

Gavan McCormack (ed.). Bonsai Australia Banzai: Multifunctionpolis and the Making of a Special Relationship with Japan. Sydney: Pluto Press Australia, 1991. 228 pp. A$16.95 (paper).

Ian Inkster. The Clever City: Japan, Australia and the Multifunction Polis. Sydney: Oxford University Press, 1991. xi + 180 pp. $17.95 (paper).     

Between gay and bigot's liberation

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Anzus and the American alliance

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Catholic church history

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A caricature of Gramsci

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REVIEW

The Self-Made Anthropologist. By Tigger Wise. Sydney: George Allen and Unwin, 1985. Pp. vii + 286. Price $14.95.     

Desocializing space: the decline of the public realm in Western Sydney1

This paper addresses the public realm and considers its contemporary context in an important Australian region, Western Sydney. Although problematized by social theory in recent years, my base position is the Habermasian premise that a public realm is critical to the healthy functioning of liberal democracies, such as Australia. This paper has three specific aims. First, I note the erosion of the public realm in an important Australian region, Western Sydney, and the obfuscation of its presence and role by new institutional arrangements emerging principally but not exclusively from federal policy settings. I then consider the consequences of this ‘desocialization of space’ for democracy and equity in a socially and culturally diverse urban region such as Western Sydney.

Désocialiser l'espace: le déclin de la sphère publique dans le Western Sydney

espace public, Western Sydney, néolibéralisme

Le présent article s'intéresse à la question de la sphère publique et examine sa condition actuelle à Western Sydney, une région australienne d'une importance capitale. Bien que la théorie sociale l'a récemment remise en cause, je m'appuie sur la prémisse d'Habermas selon laquelle la sphère publique est essentielle pour le bon fonctionnement des démocraties libérales comme celle qui prévaut en Australie. Les trois principaux buts de cet article sont de faire état de l'érosion de la sphère publique dans une des plus importantes régions australiennes qu'est Western Sydney. Je souligne à quel point sa présence et son rôle sont embrouillés par de nouveaux arrangements institutionnels qui naissent surtout mais pas uniquement grâce aux instances politiques fédérales. J'aborde ensuite les conséquences qu'entraînent la «désocialisation de l'espace» pour la démocratie et l'équité dans la vaste mosaïque socioculturelle urbaine de Western Sydney.

La desocialización del espacio: la disminución del terreno público en el oeste de Sydney

espacio público, el oeste de Sydney, el neo-liberalismo

Este papel trata el terreno público y considera su contexto contemporáneo en una región importante de Australia, el oeste de Sydney. Aunque la teoría social lo ha problematizado en recientes años, yo me baso en la premisa de Habermas de que un terreno público es esencial al buen funcionamiento de las democracias liberales, como la de Australia. Este papel tiene tres objetivos específicos. Primero, hablo de la erosión del terreno público en una región importante de Australia, el oeste de Sydney, y de la ofuscación de su presencia y de su papel, causada por nuevos arreglos institucionales que han surgido principalmente, pero no exclusivamente, de la política federal. Luego, considero las consecuencias para la democracia y la igualdad de esta ‘desocialización de espacio’ en una región urbana donde hay gran diversidad cultural y social, como el oeste de Sydney.     

Reviews articles

G.R. Curnow and R.L. Wettenhall (eds), Understanding Public Administration, Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1981, pp. 293. $19.95 (paper).     

The person for the period?

Sir Robert Menzies, The Measure of the Years, Cassell Australia Ltd., 1970, pp. 300, $6.95. Kylie Tennant, Evatt: Politics and Justice, Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney, 1970, pp. 418, $8.95.     

Tivertonia yarrolensis (maxwell) (chonetidina,brachiopoda) from the Permian of the Sydney Basin,Australia

Tivertonia yarrolensis from the Farley Formation of the Sydney Basin is illustrated for the first time. The age of the formation is discussed. The palaeogeographical distribution of Tivertonia provides an additional generic link within the Austrazean Province of the Gondwanan Realm.     

REVIEWS

SIX REVIEWS OF White Nation: Fantasies of White supremacy in a multicultural society by Ghassan Hage . Annandale, Sydney: Pluto Press. Pp. 280. Price: $24.95