Make More Spear. We’ve now launched the first Aboriginal designed and built smart ‘phone app. The For
us By Us aspect is the least important part of this
achievement. Some of the less
obvious, but more far-reaching implications, will be explicated in a paper
we’ll write on the project. What
it has done in the first instance is provide a real-world basis for critique of high profile social media projects relying on non-Indigenous technical expertise. Hence
we’ve taken the Frank Yamma song to heart: Let's Make More Spear – a further stage in community development requires
that the technology, the spear, return to Aboriginal hands.
Geale vs
Mundine. The fight’s set for the Sydney
Entertainment Centre, 30 January next year and I’ve got a ticket. I expected
Mundine would start sledging Geale about his Aboriginality (that’s only a reflection of the
tensions within Aboriginal communities) but he went too far with his
disrespectful objectification of Geale’s wife. In doing that Mundine infringed the honour codes of boxing and ensured
that there would be a personal edge to the contest. The only surprise is why,
at this late stage of his career, is Anthony so bitter? In money terms he has been
incredibly successful, and he’s chosen that path. Geale, like fellow
Australians Robbie Peden and Michael Katsidis, has been a road warrior -
Mundine has stayed home and
promoted his own fights against his own opponents. Once, according to
oldtimers, promoters wouldn’t match Aboriginal fighters because it was expected
they would take it easy on each other. Things have changed.
The Second
AIS Biennial Practitioners Colloquium. Starting
on the evening of the 27th with special guest Tracey Bunda, and concluding with a full day on 28
November. Looking good for more details, or to rsvp, contact Kate Rendell.
