Question: What if the crafts themselves, in the cultural centre,
contained elements of protest? Painted on them? By indigenous people?
Weaved into them? A part of them?
Surely brave, confronting work by people like Julie Dowling & Gordon
Bennett should also be seen in that cultural centre...not just the
work that SOCOG thinks makes them look supportive of indigenous art
and craft?
Will works by young urban-based artists and craftspeople be included?
Hope so!
We should take this chance to show work that is critical of what has
happened over the last 200 years...as well as the rest...
Or are we trying to keep the visitors away from the sight of art that
is moving; that engages people with tough issues, and that shows that
protest can take a myriad of forms?
We should perhaps start asking the people who make these decisions,
just why it is that certain art and craft is shown in these centres
while others are generally not...
noelene nabulivou, perth
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From: Trudy & Rod Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Monday, 7 August 2000 16:25
Subject: [recoznet2] Games protest 'moving to city centre'
>Games protest 'moving to city centre'
> By CLAIRE FOY-SMITH of news.com.au
> 07aug00
>
> THE protest ban at Olympic Park's Aboriginal
> cultural centre would mean large-scale peaceful
> demonstrations would shift to the Sydney city
> centre, a leading Aborigine predicted today.
>
> Jenny Munro, chairwoman of the Sydney
> Metropolitan Aboriginal Land Council � which
> controls the centre � said there was little point
> trying to breach the tight security at
> Homebush Bay.
>
> The organisation would focus instead on
> targeting the inner city.
>
> Thanks to Prime Minister John Howard, issues such as the Stolen
>Generation and
> deaths in custody were still unresolved and would form the focus,
she
>said.
>
> She was commenting today after Sydney's Olympic Games Committee
>confirmed
> there was a contractual ban with Metro on protests at the centre,
>which will sell
> Aboriginal arts and crafts. "It is stupid to target Homebush when
it's
>obvious no
> one's going to get out there," she said.
>
> There was "no point to be achieved by going out there and getting
>physical with
> the security". She likened trying to rally at the site to "hitting
>your head up
> against a brick wall".
>
> Instead, she predicted, the inner city would be the massing point.
>Preparations
> were in place and details should be known in about a week.
>
> The fact that Mr Howard could not bring himself to say sorry was
>"really just an
> indication of how bereft of leadership this country is" and
Aborigines
>would
> demonstrate, she said.
>
> Issues such as the Stolen Generation and deaths in custody would
not
>go away
> while children were still being removed from their parents and the
>number of
> Aborigines who died in custody had yet to be addressed, she said.
>
> Earlier today centre organisers confirmed details of the deal,
which
>forbids any
> protest speeches, marches or demonstrations on site and at the
>cultural centre
> and said the ban would be policed.
>
> The centre has been funded by the New South Wales Government and
the
> Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission to the tune of
>$350,000 each.
> The state government and Olympics Minister Michael Knight were
>determined the
> site should not become a focus for dissent.
>
> The Olympic Coordination Authority also has the right to review the
>text of all
> material on display in the pavilion.
>
> SOCOG's National Indigenous Advisory Committee chairwoman Dr
Lowitja
> O'Donoghue said today the centre was solely intended to showcase
>Aboriginal arts
> and crafts.
>
> "I fully support the position that there be no protest at that
>particular site," she
> said
>
> "Aboriginal people are free to protest at the games, but not
>necessarily on this
> site.
>
> "This is a site for showcasing Aboriginal arts and crafts and there
>are other
> venues for people to do that (protest). I am sure the contract
would
>indicate
> that."
>
> If people tried to demonstrate they would be removed, she said .
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