Aden Ridgeway interviewed by Jackie Huggins and Peter Read in 2010 for Seven years on - continuing life histories of Aboriginal leaders oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4805478
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Ridgeway, Aden, 1962-, interviewee
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- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 1 sound file (ca. 103 min.)
- Series:
- Seven years on - continuing life histories of Aboriginal leaders oral history project.
- Summary:
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Aden Ridgeway talks about his previous interview; his family; Rugby League and football; the Maori Haka and an Australian equivalent; the national anthem; spending 6 years in public office; his work-life balance; the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC); inspirational young Indigenous people; how his world perspective is different to new generations because he grew up on a reserve; Bangarra Dance Company; running a consultancy business, facilitating community and corporation meetings; the Lion Nathan and Brewarrina community partnership; the aims of the Indigenous Social Investment Guide; hoping to establish a grants marketplace and tax credits program; preferring to work behind the scenes rather than be seen as a leader or re-enter politics.
Ridgeway discusses the NT Intervention; the ATSIC model of representation; the next Indigenous generation; Australia's definition of identity; the possibility of doing Masters at Oxford University; to lead a delegation from the NSW Aboriginal Land Council at the next UN forum in New York, in April; the current focus of the forum is the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People; youth delegates from FaHCSIA's National Youth Leadership Development Initiative attending the forums; Megan Davis; how he regularly visits India over the last four years to detox; the need for more to be done to heal Indigenous peoples' spirits; Red Dust, a trauma-healing program for men; racism, consultation, community, identity; his personal philosophy.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 12 March 2010.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Related Material:
- Additional interviews with Aden Ridgeway in this series are available at ORAL TRC 3391, ORAL TRC 4910 and ORAL TRC 6751.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 72 leaves)
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