Aboriginal History
The Colleano Heart
Written by Zoe MacPherson, RAHS Volunteer The Colleano Heart is a new documentary that tells the story of Con Colleano and his world-famous family of travelling circus performers. Zoe McPherson reviewed the documentary for the RAHS. The Colleano Heart is a revelatory documentary on SBS/NITV that tells the story of the Colleano family and their international rise to fame as a circus act in the early twentieth century. The film follows the journey of their descendants as they retrace their...
Centenary Forum for the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association 1924–2024
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) To mark the centenary of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA), an incredible line-up of activists, historians and experts will present the Centenary Forum for the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association 1924–2024 at the State Library of New South Wales. Event details: 100 years of organised Aboriginal activism Friday, 12 April 2024, 10.00 am to 2.30 pm Speakers include: Pauline...
Outside Off – Aboriginal Tour of England 1868
Written by RAHS Volunteer Maximilian Reid. This blog is part of a monthly series that will chart episodes of cricketing history to demonstrate how the arcs of societal change and cricket intersect. The creation of cricket, a sport for the landed English gentry, has been levelled and is now played and enjoyed by all. It was certainly not intended this way and the arcs by which societal change and cricket intersect is neither simple nor easy. Cricket, despite being traditionally a conservative...