Amanda Harris – The Conversation

Jimmy Little performs at National Aborigines’ Day, 1963. State Library of New South Wales

July 10, 2024

Identity and resilience: Aboriginal performers have been singing up the streets of Sydney for NAIDOC week since 1959

Laura Case, University of Sydney and Amanda Harris, University of Sydney

NAIDOC events have always combined advocacy, protest and celebrations of culture through music, dance and art.

Performers in Aboriginal Moomba: Out of the Dark, in 1951. Produced by Bill Onus and Doug Nicholls of the Australian Aborigines’ League. State Library of Victoria

August 6, 2023

In 1951, corroboree dancers in Darwin went on strike: their actions would reverberate as far as Melbourne

Amanda Harris, University of Sydney; Linda Barwick, University of Sydney, and Tiriki Onus, The University of Melbourne

Aboriginal people in 1951 framed cultural practice as labour and as a tool for advocacy for Aboriginal rights stretching across the continent.

When Indigenous elder Binno (played by William McPherson) teaches dances to three young men, a bigger plan emerges. Christopher Woe

January 16, 2020

Black Drop Effect review: infusing the present moment with layers of the past

Amanda Harris, University of Sydney

The world premiere of Nardi Simpson’s Black Drop Effect takes in the complex histories of Aboriginal responses to commemoration, and makes space for protest, cultural reclamation and negotiation.

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