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Nwara Aboriginal Corporation

Locality: Armidale, New South Wales

Address: 8/93 Faulkner Street 2350 Armidale, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.newaracorp.com

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24.01.2022 Over 1,000 copies of #SurvivingNewEngland sold! Winner of NSW Premier’s History Awards will be announced next Friday night (Surviving New England has been shortlisted).

20.01.2022 #SurvivingNewEngland has been shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's History Awards (Community and Regional History Prize). The Awards will be announced tonight at 6:30 and you can tune in to the live stream here: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-premiers-history-awards

11.01.2022 2ND PRINT RUN & 2ND EDITION! After selling 1,000 copies in just nine months since launching in December 2019, today we received our second print run of another 1,000 copies of Surviving New England. And this is also a second edition of the book (there are a number of minor corrections/edits, a few small additions, and a few internal layout/design changes). Surviving New England can be ordered directly from Nwara (the publisher) here: bit.ly/3l3H0i0 You can also pick up copie...s locally from Reader's Companion (bit.ly/34joLys), Collins Booksellers (Armidale & Tamworth), Boobooks (bit.ly/2tYrEXm), NERAM-New England Regional Art Museum (bit.ly/2U9LWH5), and the Armidale Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place. #ReclaimingOurStory

10.01.2022 Nwara started out as the Anaiwan Language Revival Program in 2016, with the sole focus on language revival. One of our main goals, from the get go, has been to produce a dictionary and grammar book for our language (the 'Anaiwan language knowledge book'). While we took a bit of a research detour to work on history projects like the book 'Surviving New England', substantial progress has been made during the first half of 2020 in developing the language knowledge book. There's still lots of work to do, but we're getting there! Uyidiga lanabura (let's speak soon) #OurLanguagesMatter

07.01.2022 #SurvivingNewEngland has been shortlisted for a NSW Premier's History Award, the Community and Regional History Prize. Here are the judge's comments: "Callum Clayton-Dixon’s Surviving New England tells of what happened when the country of the Anaiwan people of the Northern Tableland of New South Wales was invaded by settlers and sheep in the nineteenth century. The author’s close attention to the complexities of cross-cultural contact and the destruction of Indigenous culture... and material resources reimagines a story of frontier violence too often understood in terms of Aboriginal people easily overcome by the settler presence. This is an account of violence and dispossession, but also of resistance and survival. Based on formidable research and community knowledge, the book reads the colonial archive against the grain to uncover, as far as possible, the story of the Anaiwan on their own terms. It is also charmingly illustrated by Anaiwan and Kamilaroi artist Narmi Collins-Widders. Surviving New England offers a fresh and engaging perspective on one of the most famous pastoral frontiers in Australian colonial history." #ReclaimingOurStory

07.01.2022 Travelling along Waterfall Way, not far from the village of Ebor, you’ll drive across Major’s Creek [PICTURED], and nearby there’s a signpost for Major’s Point Road which takes you towards Major’s Point bluff. These places were named after Major Edward Parke, who took up Guy Fawkes Station in the mid-1840s. Ebor itself has a Major Street, and a Parke Street. Edward Parke, an ex-military man, acquired a reputation for his brutal treatment of local Aboriginal people. A profile ...of the New England district published by the Singleton Argus in 1883 referred to how Parke established such a reign of terror...that for twenty-five years no Aboriginal would approach his run, although through it ran their favourite and most prolific fishing streams. The author claimed that even the mention of Parke, right into the 1880s, was sufficient to induce any stray Aboriginal to make back tracks to the nearest shelter. See more

07.01.2022 "The rough country on New England’s fringes was once the Aboriginal guerrilla fighter’s stronghold. From the gorges and ravines, our people were able to maintain their war of resistance for over 30 years."

06.01.2022 "The names of various creeks, streets, parks, and pastoral properties across the Tableland hark back to New England’s violent colonial origins. In this unprecedented time of truth-telling, is taking down these symbols of past injustices enough?"

06.01.2022 Surviving New England won a NSW Premier’s History Award!

03.01.2022 You can now order copies of Surviving New England via Nwara's new website.

03.01.2022 #SurvivingNewEngland #NSWPremiersHistoryAward2020

01.01.2022 #SurvivingNewEngland on ABC Radio National's Speaking Out