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Queensland State Archives Item ID 510665, Correspondence file
Commonwealth Games protested
Source: Deadly Story
In 1982 the Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people used the international focus on the event to their benefit, bringing to light the injustices they faced every day by staging a protest.
Brisbane 1982 - Highlighting injustices
The Commonwealth Games is an international sporting event between current and former colonies of the British Empire held every 4 years. In 1982 they were held in Brisbane. The international attention the Games brought about provided an opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to highlight the injustices and discrimination they were facing.
The objectives of the protest were many and covered a range of different areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life but two of the significant issues raised were land rights and control of Aboriginal affairs. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community wanted complete ownership of their lands in Queensland and to be able to protect Country from mining.
Legalities of the marches
It became clear as early as January of 1982 that activists were planning some sort of action for the Games. As the supposed ‘threat’ of Indigenous activity grew closer, the then Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson declared a State of Emergency and proclaimed street marches illegal. Only two marches were approved by Queensland police making all other marches illegal. This meant that anyone who took part in unapproved marches could be arrested and charged under the new Games legislation. If a protestor was found guilty they faced a fine of up to $2,000 or two years in prison.
The protest
As the games drew near the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community began calling out for people to come and support the protests and demonstrations against the discrimination they were suffering.
Leaders of the Community had differing views what kind of action would get the best results. Some believed peaceful rallies and cultural festivities would best get the message across while others felt that it would make little impact and that they needed to be more forceful.
On September 26 around 2,000 people marched for land rights. Protesters carried placards and banners and walked peacefully from the city to a park across the Brisbane River. It was considered Queensland’s biggest Aboriginal march at the time.
On September 29 another 1,000 people marched peacefully across central Brisbane in support of land rights. Hey held placards, banners and wore badges that read:
Stop playing games: land rights now!
A demonstration was held during the opening ceremony and police were called to have protesters removed. As the police moved in and began arresting people, protestors chanted 'the whole world is watching.' Thirty-nine people were arrested in that demonstration.
A further 104 protesters were arrested on October 4 during a land rights sit-in near the athletics stadium. According to The Age newspaper those who were arrested were the first people to be charged under the Queensland Government's Games security laws. Most charges were dropped over the next year. On the same day around 20 spectators sat quietly in the stands of the athletics stadium holding Aboriginal flags for the duration of the program.
Another rally was held on October 7. Around 500 people attended. Brisbane activist, Ross Watson, spoke to the crowd saying that "we are going to march today…we have no permit…we will be breaking the law. If you march you are likely to be arrested." About 400 police descended on a group of protestors who broke off from the main and arrested around 260 protesters including the then Governor-General’s daughter Ann Stephen.
This was a stark example of police and government suppression of our people’s right to protest and free speech. Despite the harm caused by the authorities, the people involved fought hard to have their message heard.
Sources:
•Commonwealth Games Brisbane & Aboriginal Protest, 1982, Museums Victoria
•Commonwealth Games Demonstrations - Brisbane 1982, The Koori History Website
•Activists plan to protest during the 'Stolenwealth' games, NITV
•'The fight never left': Stolenwealth Games protesters draw on long tradition, The Guardian.
Objective: To make a photograph containing elements typically associated with the night, such as "solitude, danger, mystery, and the unknown". The image would engage our minds through "mysterious unknowing" and "secrets that may engage our curiosity, shelter us, or frighten us".
Image: I choose to do this because after brainstorming I came to the conclusion that landscapes/portraits lit in the night, are photos *taken* at night and not necessarily photos *about* night. Thus, I abandoned my first thought and instead decided to re-create the all time classic pose of the horror movies, for that is one of the lingering images associated with night.
I choose an indoor shot because I decided it perfectly represented the claustrophobia and loneliness of night. Similarly, the unexplained silhouette captures the element of mystery/unknown and the person's unexplained purpose (copied from those classic horror movies) perfectly captures the urgency and danger.
What do you think? Is the person just going to bed? Or is he about to harm the sleeping woman?
“The material basis of media technologies – and books are only one example – is changing, for which historical perspectives might give not only comforting back-up (‘nothing is as permanent as change’) but also ideas to push the change forward.” (Jussi Parikka, 2012)
We can certainly talk about change; our present landscape is a space where the digital and physical have become synonymous, which many believe to be signaling the coming of an ontology-less future, through the accelerated disruption of cultural value. In this light old standards show their age and obsolescence in the face of the new, and with each new wave of informational overload we are further alienated by the system, that revolves around an economy of monetary circulation. All these factors come together to push a re-evaluation of identity and the human value. This brings to mind the genealogy of currency, articulated by Joseph Beuys during the discussion entitled What is money? : “Of course ‘Geld’ [‘money’] comes from ‘Gold’, same etymology. But it comes equally from ‘Geltung’ [‘validity’], meaning the value people fix based on their perception of a natural right. The word ‘Geltung’ is rooted in representations of a natural right, while the word ‘Gold’ is rooted in the economy of barter!” (Joseph Beuys, 2012).
In this light, Geltung [validity]: perception of a natural right brings together four artistic investigations that re-evaluate established methods of financial exchange bestowing new material values and identities to their subjects. In a landscape where monetary currency is pinnacle, the artists interrogate notions of personal and individual history, locality and its impact in identity and the framework that contains our cultural objects.
Diogo da Cruz’s work, WORDCOIN (2016 – Current), proposes the implementation of a new currency, that will give a literal value to each one’s speech. By creating The Bank for Argumentation, the costumer-museum-goer will have the opportunity to trust his or hers arguments to an institution that can save and trade them, giving the deserved and objective exposure to their ideas. Max Dovey presents Breath (BRH) (2017), a digital currency that is mined through human respiration. The installation combines breathing and micro-computers to mine, store and trade human breath as a virtual currency on the crypto-market(s). The market value of BRH is determined by the inflation created by respiratory miners who participate in the physical installation. Felicity Hammond’s artworks draws upon images from her own archive, using documents of the landscape and found images online; those of both existing and imagined future spaces. Hammond utilises particular motifs and structures that respond specifically to the digital representations found online of Dundee’s vast regeneration programme. For I keep forgetting I’ve been to Tokyo: GAIDEN (2017), Petra Szemán follows the virtual self through parallel and intersecting realities, along the departure-initiation-return structure of a hero’s journey. Drawing upon personal and/or constructed experiences, the work explores the idea of a non-localised identity that’s an archive of accumulated personal mythologies acquired from a multitude of realities.
An offline/online exhibition curated by Alejandro Ball and Inês Costa
Opening night: 27 October 2017, 7pm – 9pm
Performance part of NEoN Festival: 9 November 2017, 7pm – 8pm
Supported by Creative Scotland, University of Dundee and Leisure and Culture Dundee
For this I used an accented edges filter. +I think this filter works nicely with the photo itself. -It dies make the bottom background more blurry, but that might work to enhance the subject also. 20/20
Objective So we walked along the 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica, California with about 20 different signs and asked people to pick one that described their attitude or feelings for the day. What we got was pretty amazing.
Comments "So this man was really funny. He found us as he was walking up the street with a few women (one presumably being his wife) and stopped to see what we were doing. After recruiting the fellow for a shot, he began to rifle through the stack of signs and landed on the "Cool." page. His wife quickly laughed and asked him to go through the signs again and he changed his mind to the "Republican." His lady friends giggled and suggested that he take the "Gay." as well, and a few moments before this photograph was made, they handed him a purse, howling in laughter. I imagine he is thinking, "What are they going to think of me now.." What a trooper."
There are about 20 more people in this set, all with different signs. More to be added soon. And prints will be available in a week or so.
With soaking wet boots and a desire to drink beer, we made our way out of Cascade Canyon, and began the trek back to our campsite (almost directly across the lake in this shot) without the help of the ferry this time!
Objective: design an app version for the iTunes store, describing the projects on sale by the real state group.
Software:
Adobe Photoshop CS6
Adobe Illustrator CS6
Put the ball in the net. Simple. These shots were taken at the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata during day one of the PlayOn 4 on 4 ball hockey tournament. Bit of a change of pace from birds. Oh...by the way...the ball in this shot is actually airborne in the net as you can tell from the shadow underneath.
The 2 logs and 6 giant rocks were torpedoes and charges to blow up the bridge to prevent the zombies from crossing into Marin. George Lucas can thank us later.
The PRIME project was the second part of the Spacecraft Technology and Advanced Re-entry Tests (START) program. It had the dual objective of testing advances in space hardware and further exploring the development of manned and unmanned lifting body vehicles. Four SV-5D vehicles were built by the Martin Co. to fulfill the objectives of the PRIME program. Outside the earth's atmosphere, the SV-5D was maneuvered by the release of high pressure nitrogen through jet thrusters. When the craft re-entered the atmosphere, its control system automatically switched to airplane-type flaps for pitch and roll control.
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