This page of miscellany is an ongoing work in progress, apropos matters of relevance and of interest… including Australian history and culture, regional art galleries, the 1928 Coniston Massacre in Central Australia, Northern Territory issues (youth justice, environment, Indigenous affairs), socioeconomic research in the USA, faith, and international government and civil society.
Australia
The Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements database (ATNS) - Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African Agreements database
Australian Government Federal Register of Legislation
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade Australian Treaties Database
Productivity Commission final review report of the Closing the Gap Initiative , 2024
Frontier War Stories - Lynley Wallis - Queensland Native Mounted Police https://boespearim.podbean.com/e/frontier-war-stories-lynley-wallis-queensland-native-mounted-police/
Australian Republican Movement
1993 Australian Government Republican Advisory Committee (RAC) - Report vol. 1 The Options
Victorian Government Treaty in Victoria
John McDonald blog, art commentator etc.
Australian regional museums & art galleries … & some others
Regional art galleries and regional art centres are a fundamental but too often forgotten part of Australia’s art world, we’d be a sorry place without them. Here’s a (developing) list of some from all corners of the continent.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (4A), Haymarket, Sydney, NSW
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE Gallery), North Terrace, Adelaide, SA
Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia), VIC
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs NT
Artspace Mackay, QLD
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Bauhinia Bicentennial Art Gallery at Springsure, QLD
Benalla Art Gallery, VIC
Benalla Costume and Kelly Museum, VIC
Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD
Cairns Art Gallery, QLD
Centre Beaudesert Regional Gallery, Beaudesert, QLD
Emerald Art Gallery, QLD
Geelong Gallery, VIC
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie, WA
Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC
Home of the Arts (HOTA), Gold Coast, QLD
New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM), Armidale, NSW
Ngununggula, Bowral, NSW
NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns, QLD
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, SA
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG), Launceston, TAS
South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Bega, NSW
Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Centre, NSW
Coniston Killings, Northern Territory 1928
Dick Kimber 2003. ‘Real True History: The Coniston Massacre’, a series of articles published in Alice Springs News.
M.C. Hartwig 1960. ‘The Coniston Killings’, Honours Thesis University of Adelaide.
Peter Gunner (worked with ‘Nugget’ Morton), Interview with Justin O'Brien, Alice Springs, 20 November 2002.
Teresa McCarthy 2008. ‘Remembering the Coniston Massacre’, prepared for the NT Library Anmatyerr community history project.
O’Brien, J. 2005. ‘Report To National Museum Of Australia On Material Culture In Relation To 1928 Coniston Killings’. Includes chronology of events, chronological summary of William George Murrary’s military service, and a detailed summary of documents held by the National Archives of Australia.
US Naval Observatory 2005. ‘Sun and Moon Data for One Day’, provided for Fred Brooks Grave, longitude E132.3, latitude S22.1.
US Naval Observatory 2005a. ‘Sun and Moon Data for One Day’, provided for Coniston Ruins, longitude E132.5, latitude S22.1
National Archives of Australia. Coniston files. Series A431, Item 1950/2768 Part 1. Pages 1 to 62.
National Archives of Australia. Coniston files. Series A431, Item 1950/2768 Part 1. Pages 63 to 121.
National Archives of Australia. Coniston files. Series A431, Item 1950/2768 Part 1. Pages 122 to 180.
National Archives of Australia. Coniston files. Series A431, Item 1950/2768 Part 1. Pages 181 to 243.
National Archives of Australia. Coniston files. Series A431, Item 1950/2768 Part 2 [Attachment].
Four select images from Terry, M. 1931. Hidden Wealth and Hiding People. Putnam, London. Michael Terry travelled through Coniston just months after the killings. More images by Terry are available via the National Library of Australia photograph collection.
P.229 “Blacks camp near Stafford’s house. Typical summer residence”.
P.232 “The Mickery at Staffords with Joe Brown’s camels being watered on coming in after his death.”
Strehlow Research Centre, Alice Springs.
Northern Territory
Environment Centre of the NT. (2024). Recharging the Territory: a report by Tom Quinn, Springmount Advisory.
Northern Territory Archives. Government archives (incl. Cabinet decisions), community archives, oral histories, imagery, maps, audio, etc. Search the Library & Archives NT
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory :
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Final Report vol 1
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Final Report vol 2A
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Final Report vol 2B
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Final Report vol 3A
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Final Report vol 3B
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Final Report vol 4
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Findings & Recommendations
2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the NT Report Overview
Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation - website of the Mirarr & GAC
Northern Land Council website
Central Land Council website
Anindilyakwa Land Council website
Tiwi Land Council website
Federal Court case Santos v Tipakalippa website, including judgement, submissions, orders, notices
USA
Native American socioeconomic development research and initiatives from the United States, including much from the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance & Development.
University of Arizona Global Mining Law Center
Jorgensen, M. (1990). Cedar Pass Lodge: A Teaching Case Study in Tribal Management for Oglala Lakota College.
Purkey, A. (1988). The Crow Tribal Government and Economic Development | A Report to the Crow Tribe of Montana.
Hall, J. E. (1988). Apache Cattle: The Reservation as Marketplace, a Sale Yard Feasibility Study | A Report to the San Carlos Apache Tribe.
Gitlin, M. W. (1988). Completing the White Mountain Apache Tribal Museum and Culture Center | A Report to the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
Dewes, W., A. Laird, A. Martinez and C. O'Hara (1988). Managing Organizational Change | A Report to the Crow Tribe of Montana.
Jorgensen, M. (1990). Nebraska Sioux Lean Beef, Part A. A Teaching Case Study in Tribal Management for Oglala Lakota College.
Grogan, M., R. Morse and A. Youpee-Roll (2011). Native American Lands and Natural Resource Development. New York, Revenue Watch Institute.
James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video https://youtu.be/y4OPYp4s0tc?si=lH4vocfNGhxra-39
Malcolm X | City Desk (1963) https://youtu.be/M7SgS2yPRF0?si=pO_NHIm3LifxPnmD
James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley (1965) | Legendary Debate https://youtu.be/dTEr7Cwc4cE?si=vO_taW3oVj2o5fiF
Sly Stone and Muhammad Ali on The Mike Douglas Show (1974) https://youtu.be/R1Zbw39MCm4?si=Jr7yl3zkJdIzaes8
Literature
W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvezOvM_VgQ
Sylvia Beach interview on James Joyce and Shakespeare & Company (1962) https://youtu.be/R1Zbw39MCm4?si=4eUTPjD3hGGQ9XK3
Marianne Moore documentary https://youtu.be/EHw-9EEMowU?si=0CkFFmRwdjLj0-qH
The Life of Raymond Carver documentary with Rare Interview (1989) https://youtu.be/7mjuSh--24o?si=IwFJrgF78a_tIU9r
Faith
Sea of Faith - The Complete Series - Don Cupitt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVUIaMDAYwqjMlxhXDehb4k8Oqa5n5KAP
Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism - https://www.accesstoinsight.org/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Soren Kierkegaard
Publications
O’Brien, J. 2003. ‘Canberra Yellowcake: the politics of uranium and how Aboriginal land rights failed the Mirrar People’ Journal of Northern Territory History(14): 79-91.
Wilson, B. and O’Brien J. 2003. ‘To infuse an universal terror’: a reappraisal of the Coniston killings’, Aboriginal History, vol. 27.
O’Brien, J. undated. Neither justified nor warranted: The 1935 Cleland Inquiry, unpublished research paper.
O'Brien, J. 2014. 'No straight thing: experiences of the Mirarr traditional owners of Kakadu National Park with the World Heritage Convention'. World Heritage and Indigenous Peoples Rights. S. Disko and H. Tugendhat. Copenhagen, IWGIA, Forest Peoples Programme and Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation: 313-338.
Lea, T., K. Howey and J. O'Brien 2018. "Waging Paperfare: Subverting the Damage of Extractive Capitalism in Kakadu." Oceania 88(3): 305-319
O’Brien, J. 2019. 'Creating Space: Comanagement Considerations in Kakadu National Park'. Reclaiming Indigenous Governance. W. Nikolakis, S. Cornell and H. Nelson, University of Arizona Press: 269-295.
Brady, C., P. Christophersen and J. O'Brien 2021. "Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge in mine closure: Ranger Uranium Mine." The Royal Society of Victoria 133: 18-22.
Lynley A. Wallis , Susan O’Sullivan, May Nango, Djaykuk Djandomerr, Jillian Huntley, Brandi L. MacDonald , Clarry Nadjamerrek, and Justin O’Brien 2023 Codesigned Archaeological Research in the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia. Advances in Archaeological Practice, pp.1-15.
International intergovernmental & NGOs
International Labour Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs, Denmark
United Nations Climate Change Conference, Dubai, UAE, 2023 - COP28
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Full text
United Nations General Assembly. 2020. Enhancing the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, report by UN Secretary General.
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Sustainable Development Group
SOMO, the Centre for Research on Multinationals, Netherlands
Strategy
“A plan is not a strategy”, Roger Martin, Prof Emeritus University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Harvard Business Review
“The big lie of strategic planning”, Roger Martin, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 2014.