Ancestors Words Symposium

ANCESTORS’ WORDS SYMPOSIUM 27 and 28 MARCH 2019
Deakin University
Downtown campus, Tower 2 level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne.

We acknowledge this symposium is being held on the country of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nations, the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered.

Day One

9 am - Welcome Welcome to Country Nyungar protocol and gift responding to Welcome

9.30am - Joy Murphy Wandin with Jessica Horton: Wandin letters

Ancestors’ words

10.30am - Anna Haebich: the project Darryl Kickett: Nyungar methodology Gabriel

11am - Maddock Ancestors’ words research & database

Family Letters

11.20 - Jacinta Walsh: Great Grandmothers letters and PhD topic "Letters of Hope"

12noon - Darryl Kickett and Marion Kickett: in conversation, James Yombich Kickett’s - dogs and the Beverley police

Session Four: Performative letters

2.00pm - Carolyn Lewis: ‘Janie’ (dramatic performance followed by discussion): Carolyn Lewis, Irma Woods and Terry Kennedy as Superintendent Mr Brodie, Moore River Native Settlement – 1927.

2.30 - Sharon Huebner: film screening 'No Longer a Wandering Spirit' (2016)

Session Five: Literacy, negotiations, activism

3.20pm - Leonie Stevens: VDL Indigenous writing, Flinders Island

4pm - Tiffany Shellam: Rhythmic reckonings of Charles Mortimer

4.30pm - Julie Evans: Minutes of Evidence, legacies

Day Two

Session One: Gnowangerup Deputation Letter

9 am - Anna Haebich – the Gnowangerup file Irma Woods – the letter Darryl Kickett - the meetings, the outcomes

Session Two: Letters, law and language

10.50pm - Jo Cruickshank: Minutes of Evidence Jason Gibson: Howitt project

11.30 - Claudia Haake: Native American letters

Session Three: Archivists, communities, protocols

1.00 - Maxine Briggs, State Library of Victoria Gerard Foley: State Records Office of Western Australia

Session Four: Project futures, future archives

2.50 - Crystal Mckinnon, Jo Cruickshank, Carolyn Lewis, Darryl Kickett, Maxine Briggs

4.15 - Wrap up, Tiffany Shellam

4.30 End of Symposium

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Above are images of some of the amazing participants at the symposium - Researchers who explore the Archives and Gerard Foley who is the Senior Archivist in the State Records Office of Western Australia.

I had a wonderful chat with Darryl Kickett, who, I learnt, I am related to through marriage. He knows some of my family in Western Australia. What a wonderful man.

Marion Kickett and I had a great laugh and a chat. Marion is family too and remembers staying in my Great Grandparents (Mabel and Jack's) home in Kellerberrin Western Australia in 1973 for a Jehovah's Witness Convention. This blew me away.. she knew Mabel and Jack! We will stay in touch for sure.

What a pleasurer and a privilege to present at this symposium and meet these wonderful people.

Jac's Publications

Research Profile @ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2774-1373

Report

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Emily Armstrong, Indigenous Care Leavers in Australia: A National Scoping Study, August 2020, Department of Social Work, Monash University,

Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University SNAICC, Melbourne.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Jacinta Walsh, Songlines in action: Tracing five generations, Book Review of "Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories" by Shauna Bostock, October 2023, Australian Book Review. no. 458

Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Phillip Mendes & Rachel Standfield. First Nations care leavers: Supporting better transitions (Practice Guide). Melbourne: Child Family Community Australia, Australian Institute of Family Studies. September 2023, Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Jacinta Walsh and Lynette Russell. Yarning with the Archives. In The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures, edited by Bronwyn Carlson, Madi Day, Sandy O’Sullivan, and Tristan Kennedy, 226–39. 1. Routledge, 2023.

DOI: 10.4324/9781003271802-18.

Jacinta Walsh, Married to a 'British Subject', February 2023, In The Australian Journal of Politics and History. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12853

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Indigenous youth transitioning from out-of-home care in Australia: a study of key challenges and effective practice responses, August 2021, Journal of Children's Services, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 16-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-08-2021-0034

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) young people leaving out-of-home care in Australia: A national scoping study, February 2021, In Children and Youth Services Review 121.

Media Publications

Jacinta Walsh, In one family’s story, a case for the Voice to Parliament, 7th September 2023, In The Lens, Monash University, Melbourne

Philip Mendes, Jacinta Walsh and Lena Turnbull, Casualties of a system in crisis: Young, Indigenous and forgotten

after leaving out-of-home care, 12th October 2020, In The Lens, Monash University, Melbourne

Philip Mendes, Rachel Standfield, Bernadette Saunders, Samone McCurdy, Jacinta Walsh, Lena Turnbull, Emily Armstrong, Indigenous children are leaving out-of-home care to uncertain futures. This is the support they need, September 2020, In The

Conversation, Melbourne.

Media - Expert Comment

Olivia Jenkins, Indigenous History Push, 6th February 2022, In Herald Sun, Melbourne.

Olivia Jenkins, Stars back more Indigenous language and history in schools,

15th February 2022, 6:30pm, Kidsnews.com.au

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