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David Hansen discusses 'the recent abortive sale of Benjamin Law's busts of Truganini and Woureddy and ... the controversy surrounding the promulgation of historical artefacts depicting Tasmanian Aborigines. Dr Hansen deplores the stigma surrounding such works, and is critical of academic and curatorial timidity and silence.'
Source: Australian Book Review, 'Advances', May 2010
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Epigraphs:
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
For what it is worth, my own view is that in contemporary Australia the dialectical quest for truth about the indigenous culture, by open argument and counter argument, is no less important than about the culture of the invaders and oppressors. Both investigations, I believe, are best carried on by scholars whose primary loyalty is not to one heritage or the other but to the principle that nothing is sacrosanct except the spirit of free inquiry itself. The custodians of that particular flame are without race, as are their enemies. - L. R. Hiatt, Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Fearing Truganini
2011
single work
criticism
(taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Artlink , June vol. 31 no. 2 2011; (p. 48-50) -
Busted
2010
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 6) -
David Hasen Replies:
2010
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 4) -
Tragedy and Loss
2010
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 4) -
Advances
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 321 2010; (p. 1) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the winners of the 2010 Calibre Prize and the 2010 ABR Poetry Prize.
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Advances
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 321 2010; (p. 1) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on the winners of the 2010 Calibre Prize and the 2010 ABR Poetry Prize. -
Tragedy and Loss
2010
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 4) -
David Hasen Replies:
2010
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 4) -
Busted
2010
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 6) -
Fearing Truganini
2011
single work
criticism
(taught in 1 units)
— Appears in: Artlink , June vol. 31 no. 2 2011; (p. 48-50)
Awards
- 2010 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate
- 2010 joint winner The Calibre Prize Joint winner with Lorna Hallahan for 'On Being Odd'.
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