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'In 1965, 29 students from Sydney University set out on a road trip through northwestern NSW, to challenge the ingrained discrimination and racism that was a largely unacknowledged feature of NSW country towns. The trip was marked by confrontation, intense street debates, some physical violence and much courage from local Aborigines.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)

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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2002 .
      Extent: xxii, 329p.p.
      Description: illus., map, ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index and a bibliography (pp.313-316).
      ISBN: 1864489227
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The Freedom Ride Kinetic Energy Theatre Company , 2016 single work drama children's

'From July 1964 to February 1965 a group of students at the University of Sydney planned, and put in motion, an action designed to draw attention to racial discrimination against Aborigines. This culminated in thirty of these students, most of them under twenty years of age, going on a bus trip around racist towns in Northern NSW. An action known today as The Australian Freedom Ride. This groundbreaking campaign for indigenous rights in Australia is a joyful and inspirational story of courage and conviction, which brought many Australians together during the sixties in a shared cause. Through interactive drama & storytelling, our audience are immersed in the civil rights issues of the day, and, hopefully, are encouraged to investigate the state of racism and indigenous rights now.'

'... The play starts with at a meeting on the Sydney University campus where the students plan and prepare for the campaign. It then zooms in on events transpiring in the town of Walgett. The characters portrayed are key people who were there: the great Aboriginal leader Charles Perkins, and Ann Curthoys, Jim Spigelman, Pat Healy, Darce Cassidy and Wendy Golding: these members of SAFA (Student Action For Aborigines) were instrumental in getting the Freedom Ride on the road. And in Walgett: the courageous Kamilaroi woman Pat Walford (famous for her “I’m black and I’m proud of it” speech), the racist RSL manager, and George Rose (an Aboriginal ex-serviceman who is barred from the RSL), the two-faced Anglican minister Reverend Dowe, and the infamous lady running the Walgett frock shop.

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White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret Fiona Probyn , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
The Freedom Ride Ann Curthoys , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Greats 2008; (p. 134-138)
Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers - Clive Moore Clive Moore , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , vol. 51 no. 1 2005; (p. 133-134)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers Ann Curthoys , 2002 single work autobiography
[Review Essay] Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers David Andrew Roberts , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2003; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers Ann Curthoys , 2002 single work autobiography

'Ann Curthoys, the Manning Clark Professor of History at The Australian National University, has already contributed so much to Australian studies through her excellent work on Indigenous and women’s history. Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers may be her best and most important legacy yet.' (Introduction)
Hunters of Australia Mark Abley , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 21 February no. 5212 2003; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Black Sheep : Journey to Borroloola Nicholas Jose , 2002 single work prose ; In Denial : The Stolen Generations and the Right Robert Manne , 2001 single work criticism ; Looking for Blackfellas' Point : An Australian History of Place Mark McKenna , 2002 single work non-fiction ; Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers Ann Curthoys , 2002 single work autobiography
[Review Essay] Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers David Andrew Roberts , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2003; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers Ann Curthoys , 2002 single work autobiography

'Ann Curthoys, the Manning Clark Professor of History at The Australian National University, has already contributed so much to Australian studies through her excellent work on Indigenous and women’s history. Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers may be her best and most important legacy yet.' (Introduction)
Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers - Clive Moore Clive Moore , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , vol. 51 no. 1 2005; (p. 133-134)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers Ann Curthoys , 2002 single work autobiography
Hunters of Australia Mark Abley , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 21 February no. 5212 2003; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Black Sheep : Journey to Borroloola Nicholas Jose , 2002 single work prose ; In Denial : The Stolen Generations and the Right Robert Manne , 2001 single work criticism ; Looking for Blackfellas' Point : An Australian History of Place Mark McKenna , 2002 single work non-fiction ; Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers Ann Curthoys , 2002 single work autobiography
The Freedom Ride Ann Curthoys , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Greats 2008; (p. 134-138)
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret Fiona Probyn , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
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Subjects:
  • Far West NSW, New South Wales,
  • 1965
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