By Barbara Miller
18th July 2018
Wednesday 18 July
1.15pm
FREE
Barbara Miller is an intriguing combination of social justice campaigner and researcher with sociological training. As a psychologist, she has helped many people break free of mindsets that have prevented them reaching their full potential.
23rd July 2018
CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
Monday 23 July at 12 Noon
Macquarie Room NSW Parliament House
Macquarie Street Sydney
GUEST SPEAKER: THE HON PAUL GREEN MLC
‘Modern Slavery Bill 2018’
Purpose of the Bill: To make provision with respect to slavery, slavery-like practices and human trafficking and to provide for the appointment and functions of an Anti-Slavery Commissioner and for other purposes.
And Book Launch/Signing with BARBARA MILLER and her book ‘White Woman Black Heart:
Journey Home To Old Mapoon, A Memoir’
This is a highly engaging and inspiring memoir. At its centre is the story of Mapoon which has all the elements of a great drama with the violent expulsion of the community in 1963 and their triumphant return eleven years later. As the author explains she came almost by chance to be at the very centre of the drama which in turn dramatically changed her life. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in political and social change over the last 50 years.
$15 per person. RSVP to Judy 0410 403 616 or judyrussell.private@gmail.com by 18/7/18
Please see some photographs below taken by David Jack on the opening of the William Cooper Footbridge.
The following is a recent article published by The Age Newspaper (Oct 4th 2014) about the news of the Queen accepting the petition for Aboriginal rights, 80 years on. To read the full article please head over to the site.
It has been an 80-year struggle, but a petition from a Victorian Aboriginal family has finally arrived at the doorstep of Buckingham Palace.
In 1934, Yorta Yorta man William Cooper wrote a petition rallying King George V for a representative for indigenous people in Federal Parliament to help address injustices.
Continue reading “Queen accepts petition for Aboriginal rights, 80 years on – Article”
Works to conservce and restore historic buildings at Footscray Station are now complete.
You are cordially invited to tour the heritage-listed buildings and inspect new information panels, which tell the vibrant story of the station and celebrates the life of William Cooper, former Footscray resident and a leading campaigner for the rights of Aboriginal and Jewish people during the 1930s, after whom the station footbridge is named.
Alfred Turner (“Uncle Boydie”), grandson of William Cooper, will unveil information at the station recognising William Cooper’s legacy of building bridges across communities.
Photos by Paul Williams
14.9.14 at the Cairns Tropical Writers Festival 12-14 Sept at Rydges Tradewinds, 137 Esplanade Cairns.
Videographer: Norman Miller
Queen receives Cooper petition from Governor-General
On 5 August 14, the Australian Governor-General had a private audience with Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral, England and handed her the replica of William Cooper’s 1930s petition. She was able to receive it as it was not a live petition but a historical document. Prime Minister Tony Abbott was supportive of the handover. Uncle Boydie had presented it to Sir Peter Cosgrove in Canberra in May this year. Cooper had tried to have it forwarded to the Queen’s grandfather King George V in the 1930’s. For Uncle Boydie it was mission accomplished to fulfill his grandfather’s unfinished business. The Governor-General, accompanied by Lady Cosgrove, was invested as a Knight in the Order of Australia by Her Majesty the Queen at the same meeting.
The great granddaughter of William Cooper, Cheryl Russell visited us (Norman and Barbara Miller) in Cairns recently. Here is a photo of Cheryl (front row, left side with headscarf). The photo of the Cooper family with the Millers was taken at Yatir Forest in Israel in Dec 2010 beside a plaque dedicated to William Cooper. We were in Israel for the honouring of William Cooper by having an Academic Chair of Resistance to the Holocaust named after him at Yad Vashem.
Click the link below to play the podcast from the Vision Radio Network 20Twenty Podcast
http://mediapoint.org.au/podcasts/0000241875.mp3
7 July 2014 radio interview with Barbara and Norman Miller from Adelaide for NAIDOC Week re William Cooper. Barbara did an interview with them in 2013 on William Cooper as well.
Videographer: David Jack
July 2014 The Journal, VOC Historical Society, Volume 15 Issue 7
www.98five.com/CachedPodcast/
30 June 2014 Interview with Sonshine Radio, Fremantle on the Duyfken book launch of the book European Quest to Find Terra Australis Incognita
http://issuu.com/first_nations_telegraph/docs/the_european_quest_to_find_terra_au
6 March 2014 Article by Norman Miller and Review by Dr Timothy Bottoms on European Quest book
21 Aug 2013 Tiga Watson, Brisbane Indigenous Media Association radio interview with Barbara Miller on William Cooper. Interview same day in Brisbane with National Indigenous Radio Service
The following review can be found on the ANU website.
Continue reading “Book review of William Cooper book by Eve Darian-Smith”
Cairns Tropical Writers Festival 2014 is on soon – Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September. Click through to view my profile and other 2014 authors attending the event.
Would love to see you there!
