During my talk with Jandamarra, we chatted about a few of his paintings, in particular those of Uncle Bob Randall titled "We are the Land", Uncle Jack Charles titled "Cleverman", and one of an Aboriginal boy leading a non-Indigenous boy by the hand titled "Walking Together". Click on the title links to Jandamarra's website for more information about these paintings. "Uncle Jack" is also another striking traditional dot-style contemporary portraiture. 

Continue to Jandamarra's website for more of his story and artwork, and information about upcoming exhibitions.

We also talked about a powerful short film by Uncle Bob Randall called "Kanyini". Here is a link to the Kanyini website. 

Towards the end of the podcast we mentioned Jandamarra's lovely wife, Amy Cadd, and the work she is doing in palliative care and around the challenging subject of death and dying. Here is a link to Amy's Facebook page.

Also, for anyone interested in arachnids and other (I won't say creepy) crawly terrestrial invertebrates, we gave a plug at the end of our talk to Jandamarra's young step-son, Winton. Follow Winton's passion and great photography on his Instagram site.

The 'Act' that Aunty Lauraine talks about in relation to 'exemptions' was a terribly discriminatory piece of Queensland legislation entitled The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897. Under this Act and its Regulations, the Queensland government was empowered to (among other things):
-  appoint a 'protector' of Aboriginal people;
- remove Aboriginal people from their traditional lands and relocate them to reserves set up by the government, "in such manner, and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed";
-  forbid non-Aboriginal people from entering the reserves;
-  issue permits for Aboriginal people to work outside the reserves for up to 12 months, with renewal or revocation of such permits at the discretion of the 'protector'; 
-  issue blankets to Aboriginal people, which blankets "shall be and remain the property of Her Majesty";
-  provide for the control of Aboriginal people; and
-  prohibit Aboriginal rites or customs that were deemed to be injurious to Aboriginal welfare.

According to government records, 969 Aboriginal people were removed from their home land and taken to Yarrabah from the establishment of the mission until 1972.  When anthropologist, Norman Tindale, visited Yarrabah in 1938 he found 43 different tribal groups represented there. 

Monash Country Lines Archive has created digital animations of a number of Yanyuwa songs and stories to assist with the preservation of traditional knowledge, language and history. Click this link to see these extraordinary animated stories of the Yanyuwa families of Borroloola, including the Tiger Shark whom John mentioned sung back over the country he had travelled. 

For anyone with even a remote interest in songlines, here is a link to "Singing Saltwater Country", a definite must-read; and also a link to Volumes 1 and 2 of "Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People - A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia".

Listen to Miriam-Rose's explanation of dadirri , and read more about dadirri and her work at the Miriam-Rose Foundation website.

In this podcast, Garmi mentions two very prominent Australian poets:

• Judith Wright (1915-2000), poet, environmentalist and activist for Aboriginal rights, who moved to Mount Tamborine in the Gold Coast hinterland; and
• Kath Walker, Oodgeroo Noonunccal (1920-1993), poet, Aboriginal political activist, artist and educator from Minjerribah, currently known as North Stradbroke Island, Queensland.

For anyone not familiar with these eminent women, click on the links in their names to learn more about them and their captivating and inspirational poetry.

In this episode, Garmi talks about the role of Nungeena Aboriginal Corporation for Women's Business, and how six Aboriginal women got together and approached the then owner of the current Nungeena land who was operating a Thai restaurant from the property.  

Garmi also recounts the publicly-available Dreaming story of the mountains now known as the Glass House Mountains.   

Below are some photos of the Nungeena property, and Mount Beerwah (Mother Mountain), Mount Tibrogargan (Father) and Mount Coonowrin (or Crook Neck has he is known locally).

I am told that, when coming to Nungeena from the west on sunset, Coonowrin does, indeed, look like a young boy with his head cocked to one side.  From time to time Mounts Beerwah and Tibrogargan are opened to climbers by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, however, it is culturally inappropriate to climb any of these sacred mountains. 

The road to Nungeena; part of the Nungeena property; Mt Beerwah, from Nungeena 

Mt Beerwah (far left), Mt Coonowrin (CrookedNeck);  and Mt Tigrogargan

In Part 1 of Garminungeena's (Jenny Thompson's) talk with me, we mentioned a couple of very enlightening books that you might like to look up:

1. "Dark Emu: Black Seed: Agriculture or Accident?" by Bruce Pascoe, and
2. "The Biggest Estate on Earth - How Aborigines Made Australia" by Bill Gammage.

Also, during our chat I mentioned the "Babakiueria" YouTube clip.  ​I can no longer find the whole clip on YouTube, so I have included a link below to a Vimeo version.  I hope you can access it - it's really very clever.
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