with Lauren Marsh for Ghost files: the Missing Files of the Department of Indigenous Affairs archives (Published article)
Shadow Lines
Fremantle
:
Fremantle Press
,
2003
Z1051216
2003
single work
biography
(taught in 5 units)
'The story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid structures of London. In a society deeply divided on racial lines, Edward and Jessie met, fell in love and, against strong opposition, eventually married. Despite unrelenting surveillance and harassment the Smith home was a centre for Aboriginal cultural and social life for over thirty years.' (Source: back cover, 2003 edition)
The Coolbaroo Club
( dir. Roger Scholes
)
Canberra
:
Annamax Media
Coolbaroo Club Productions
,
1996
Z1639257
1996
single work
film/TV
(taught in 1 units)
In Perth, Western Australia, the Coolbaroo Club operated for 14 years (1946-1960) as a meeting place and a community focus for the local Aboriginal community. The Club was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practised unofficial apartheid. Continually harrassed by police with enforced fraternisation bans and curfews placed on them, the Indigenous population was also required to carry identity cards and deal with bureaucratic obstruction. During its lifetime, the Club attracted black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas, among them Nat 'King' Cole, Harold Blair, and the Harlem Globetrotters.
