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Lester-Irabinna Rigney Lester-Irabinna Rigney i(A95714 works by) (a.k.a. Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney)
Born: Established: 1965 ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Narungga ; Aboriginal Ngarrindjeri ; Aboriginal Kaurna
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1 Sharing Space: An Indigenous Approach Conversation: Sharing Space: An Indigenous Approach Lester-Irabinna Rigney (interviewer), Lewis O'Brien (interviewer), 2006 single work interview
— Appears in: Sharing Spaces : Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights 2006; (p. 24-31)
1 3 y separately published work icon Sharing Spaces : Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights Gus Worby (editor), Lester-Irabinna Rigney (editor), Perth : API Network Curtin University of Technology. Australia Research Institute , 2006 Z1273416 2006 anthology criticism (taught in 2 units) A collection of conversations and essays by Elders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars addresses a range of contemporary issues including the politics of space sharing derived from a colonial history of non-sharing, the relationship between the stories Australians tell themselves about their place as a nation. (Libraries Australia)
1 Indigenous Education, Languages and Treaty : The Redefinition of a New Relationship with Australia Lester-Irabinna Rigney , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Treaty : Let's Get It Right! 2003; (p. 72-87) 'The argument in this paper was played out on 2 June 1997, in my own Aboriginal community of Narungga, at Bookayana (Point Pearce Mission, Yorke Peninsula). A meeting was called to settle our grievances with the then South Australian Department of Education, Employment and Training (DEET). This occasion is known amongst our people as the Bookayana Education meeting. The meeting was held in the Jack Long Memorial Hall, which seemed fitting as Kauwawa (Uncle) Jack3 was an Elder who spoke of the testimony of several Narungga people demanding selfdetermination at the 1915 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Affairs. My people have a strong and proud tradition in calling for our right to be self-determining. In every generation Narungga peoples have asserted our rights to sovereignty and jurisdiction over our own affairs (see Wanganeen 1987; Mattingley and Hampton1988). As a continuation of this legacy, the Bookayana education meeting called for greater Narungga control over education to improve the educational opportunities for our children. To address the crisis in education for the Narungga, there was an urgent need to resolve the following key issues.' (Introduction)
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