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Key researchers K-Ma:
Project Manager, Aboriginal Partnerships, World Heritage Area, Parks & Wildlife Service; postgraduate student, ANU
Current Research/Work
Greg is a Tasmanian Aborigine, descended from the Trawulwuy nation from the north east of the island. He has a BSc with a major in Zoology and a Graduate Diploma of Environmental Studies with first class honours, both from the University of Tasmania. He has worked in Aboriginal community development all his working life, was one of the instigators of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council in 1989; and as co-ordinator of the process by which the first Aboriginal Lands Bill was passed by Tasmanian House of Assembly (1990). In 1993 Greg took up a position with the University of Tasmania as Head of the Centre for Aboriginal Education, which delivers an Aboriginal Studies major and a range of Aboriginal student support programs. He is currently on secondment to the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, implementing an Aboriginal management partnership and interpretation program for the Tasmanian World Heritage Area. He recently convened the international symposium "Native Solutions: Indigenous Knowledge and Today's Fire Management" and will edit the papers and proceedings.
Greg is currently undertaking research toward a PhD at the Australian National University which focuses on relationships between traditional and contemporary indigenous mythologies, identity and land in Tasmania. Read an excerpt of Greg's research.
Recent Publications include:
- "The Palawa Voice: Partisan Research and Land Management." We Decide! Indigenous Voices on Native Identity. Ed. I. Vernon and K. Curran. Fort Collins: Colorado State University, forthcoming.
- "Turning Back the Clock: Fire, Biodiversity and Indigenous Community Development in Tasmania." Working on Country: Indigenous Environmental Management in Australia. Ed. R. Baker, J. Davies, and E. Young. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- "Returning Fire." Native Solutions. Ed. M. Langton & G. Lehman. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Indigenous Knowledge and Today's Fire Management, 5-7 July, 2000, Parks and Wildlife Service, Hobart.
- "First Voice." Siglo 7 (1997).
- "Containment Dreaming." Siglo 10 (1998).
- "A Desire for Uncertainty." Island 79 (1999).
- "The Alienation of Man from Nature: Science, Christianity and a Native Solution." Australian Journal of Environmental Education (forthcoming).
- "Escaping the Colonial Eye: Post-colonialism and the Indigenous Experience in Tasmania." Journal of Australian Colonial History (forthcoming).
Lecturer, Art History & Theory, School of Visual & Performing ArtsResearch InterestsMy research and writing is multi-disciplinary, even "cultural theory", involving aspects of history, philosophy, geography, design, and mass media, although centered on the visual arts. Major themes of research are landscape and gardens, the development of vernacular forms and aesthetics, and some of the more quirky examples of cultural expression. For a number of years I have been Senior Research Assistant to The Miriam Hamilton Collection, a private collection being documented for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales as a reference tool for the management and presentation of Rouse Hill House (1813) in western Sydney. I am currently, with Dr Heather Johnson, completing a term as co-editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, the leading refereed art journal in Australasia.
Recent Publications include:
- "At the Edge of Discourse: The Formulation of Vernacular Architecture as ‘Other.’" Formulation Fabrication: The Architecture of History. Proceedings of the Seventeeth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australian and New Zealand. Ed. David Kernohan et al. Wellington: SAHANZ, 2000. 145-152.
- "The Australian Backyard: Edges and Artefacts." Australian Garden History 8.4 (Jan/Feb 1997): 14-16.
- "‘Smitten by the sun’: Empire Sculpture in the Vernacular Landscape." Loyalty and Disloyalty in the Architecture of the British Empire and Commonwealth: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. Ed. Philip Goad and Julie Willis. Melbourne: SAHANZ, 1997. 80-87.
- "Suitability and Social Impress: Some Expressions of Identity in the Vernacular Garden of Rouse Hill House." (with Miriam Hamilton) Thresholds: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. Ed. Richard Blythe and Rory Spence. Launceston: SAHANZ, 1999. 221-226.
Associate Lecturer, School of History and ClassicsPostgraduate student, School of History & ClassicsResearch Interests
- Aboriginal History in Tasmania
- Van Diemen’s Land Company
- Regional History of North West Tasmania
I am currently working on my PhD thesis: Aboriginal Society in North West Tasmania: Dispossession and Genocide. Part of my goal is to highlight the cultural differences between Aboriginal tribes in Tasmania as well as the different contact histories. As the North West tribes were completely eradicated in a very short space of time, I am very interested in the role played by the Van Diemen's Land Company and in particular the Manager, Edward Curr (also the local magistrate). I am also examining instances where 18th and 19th century racist ideology (pre Social Darwinist) influenced the activities of Europeans in the North West region i.e. Sealers and VDLC labour.
