From Kirstie Parker at The Koori Mail
The Federal Government says it will overhaul the processes for the repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remains and cultural material from international institutions to make them more inclusive of Indigenous aspirations. Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin announced on Friday that the Government would establish a new International Repatriation Advisory Committee to steer the review.
Ms Macklin said she would call for expressions of interest and the committee would be appointed in September.
“The committee will advise the Government on a range of issues, including reviewing current international repatriation policy and finding a more effective way to deliver on international repatriation,” she said.
The development came at the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum held at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane on Friday, just before a panel of Indigenous people from the Torres Strait, the Kimberley, Groote Eylandt and South Australia shared some of their experiences of repatriation.
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Nguyen Van Huy, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Nguyen Van Huy enthusiastically took part in field trips of the Vietnam Institute of Ethnology to remote and mountainous areas bordering China and Laos in the 1960’s, surveying then little known ethnic minority groups. As early as 1980s, while working toward the completion of a Ph.D. in Ethnology (1988, Hanoi University), Nguyen pioneered a new direction in ethnological research, i.e. sociological approach. Leading colleagues to conduct the first sociological surveys of ethnic groups across the country, Nguyen directed his interests to contemporary issues of socio-economic development of ethnic minorities and ethnic relations. These years of grounded experience with, solid scholarly insights of and deep concerns for the minorities formed a core of Nguyen’s advocacy for local voices through his new adventure as the founding director of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (1995-2006). More…
Henry (Jatti) Bredekamp, Iziko Museums of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Professor Henry (Jatti) Bredekamp is the CEO of Iziko Museums of Cape Town since November 2002; and since October 2006 President of the South African National Committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums). His origins are firmly rooted in the Overberg of the Western Cape. Born at the Genadendal Mission Station by the end of the Second World War, he began his career as a farm school teacher near Leeu Gamka in the Great Karoo. He later joined the University of the Western Cape, which he had served for twenty-seven years. He holds Master degrees in History, obtained as a Fulbright scholar from the Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA, and the UWC in South Africa. More…
The Inclusive Museums Journal
Conference Venue
Brisbane, Australia, 8-11 July 2009
UQ CENTRE CONVENTION CENTRE
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Qld 4072
Australia
Phone: +61(07) 3346 9654
Fax: +61(07) 3346 9656
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