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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia
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'Taking readers into the depths of sadness and despair and into the heights of celebration and hope, this disturbing account details the trauma suffered by Australia's indigenous people and the resultant "trauma trails" spread throughout the country.'   (Publication summary)

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    • Spinifex Press , 2002 .
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      Extent: xi, 342p.
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      • Published: September 2003
      ISBN: 1876756225 (pbk.), 1876756225 (Pbk), 1876756225
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We Need to Listen to Each Other to Heal Kirk Page , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 25 August no. 758 2021; (p. 21) 'EMERITUS Professor Judy Atkinson believes that 'truth-telling' may not be as easy as it sounds. "If we are to see change and begin to transform the pain and deep trauma within our communities we cannot wait for the government and officials from Canberra to do this. We need to lead this conversation. Its about listening. In order to heal, the stories behind the trauma must be heard," Judy says.'  
 
Unease and Disease : Redrawing the Boundaries of Colonial Madness James Dunk , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , April no. 72 2021; (p. 122-131) 'OVER THE COURSE of eight years I researched and wrote a book, Bedlam at Botany Bay, about colonial madness in Australia. I read the records generated by the projects undertaken here – endeavours at every scale, from simple survival through to the efforts of empires to mobilise labour, capital and morality. Letters scratched out by the two outsized, Crown-appointed spiders working from the stone house on the rise above the eastern shore of Warrane (Sydney Harbour) and transmitted to the buildings thrown up around the edge of the water; the second settlement at Parramatta; the outstations in contested areas; the penal stations on far-flung islands; and the lair of the hulking old beast half a world away on Downing Street. I read case notes scribbled by half-trained doctors, case law by half-trained lawyers, editorials and newsprint written in the same inflated, pompous register in which it seems that many of the better-heeled colonists prosecuted their lives. The spiders spun without cease a taut, geometric thing strung over the uneven, ungainly contours of the colony, over the actual life of the world I was working to reconstruct. Somewhere within this close web, and the stray silken threads spun silent across the water by every person with access to ink and paper and language, somewhere within and inside all this lovely, suffocating gossamer lay the monstrous and mundane matter of colonisation: a thing so ordinary anyone could do it and so special some felt called to it and so awful that it continues to poison the land and everything on it.' (Introduction)
'Dadirri' and White Affect Shari Kocher , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 2 no. 1 2013; (p. 139-153)
Dealing with Trauma 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 2 October no. 286 2002; (p. 43)
— Review of Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia Judy Atkinson , 2002 single work prose
Dealing with Trauma 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 2 October no. 286 2002; (p. 43)
— Review of Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines: The Transgenerational Effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia Judy Atkinson , 2002 single work prose
'Dadirri' and White Affect Shari Kocher , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 2 no. 1 2013; (p. 139-153)
Unease and Disease : Redrawing the Boundaries of Colonial Madness James Dunk , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , April no. 72 2021; (p. 122-131) 'OVER THE COURSE of eight years I researched and wrote a book, Bedlam at Botany Bay, about colonial madness in Australia. I read the records generated by the projects undertaken here – endeavours at every scale, from simple survival through to the efforts of empires to mobilise labour, capital and morality. Letters scratched out by the two outsized, Crown-appointed spiders working from the stone house on the rise above the eastern shore of Warrane (Sydney Harbour) and transmitted to the buildings thrown up around the edge of the water; the second settlement at Parramatta; the outstations in contested areas; the penal stations on far-flung islands; and the lair of the hulking old beast half a world away on Downing Street. I read case notes scribbled by half-trained doctors, case law by half-trained lawyers, editorials and newsprint written in the same inflated, pompous register in which it seems that many of the better-heeled colonists prosecuted their lives. The spiders spun without cease a taut, geometric thing strung over the uneven, ungainly contours of the colony, over the actual life of the world I was working to reconstruct. Somewhere within this close web, and the stray silken threads spun silent across the water by every person with access to ink and paper and language, somewhere within and inside all this lovely, suffocating gossamer lay the monstrous and mundane matter of colonisation: a thing so ordinary anyone could do it and so special some felt called to it and so awful that it continues to poison the land and everything on it.' (Introduction)
We Need to Listen to Each Other to Heal Kirk Page , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 25 August no. 758 2021; (p. 21) 'EMERITUS Professor Judy Atkinson believes that 'truth-telling' may not be as easy as it sounds. "If we are to see change and begin to transform the pain and deep trauma within our communities we cannot wait for the government and officials from Canberra to do this. We need to lead this conversation. Its about listening. In order to heal, the stories behind the trauma must be heard," Judy says.'  
 
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