ABC Interview – National Reconciliation Week 2021
Kiana Charlton – Secondary Resource Writer for The Goondeen Institute speaks with ABC Radio presenter Kat Feeney about National Reconciliation Week.
ABC Radio Brisbane – Focus: What moment in history has influenced your life? #Goondeen
History can be very personal. How has your experience of history shaped your life? And how can that help us understand Australia? Two wise Brisbane elders, Uncle Albert Holt and Everald Compton, talk about understanding Australia through history.
History through the eyes of three wise men of Queensland
(Tony Moore – Brisbane Times) They call them the three wise men. They are “Goondeen”, which is also the title of a book that gives an alternative reading of the big events in recent Australian history and is aimed at library shelves in Queensland schools. In Murri language a Goondeen is “a wise fella, a clever fella, […]
New book Goondeen examines migrant camps and migration success stories including Henry Palaszczuk
(Grantlee Kieza, The Sunday Mail) NOT long after the greatest cataclysm the modern world had seen, this newspaper reported on Queensland’s efforts to help with a refugee crisis that saw millions of people facing death, disease and famine. The terror and the carnage of World War II was still alive in the scarred minds of […]
