"I Am Like You, I Am Different" - Beyond Ethnicity, Becoming Asian-Australian

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Hannah Donnelly

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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

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Jonathan Jones

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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
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Kirsten Thorpe

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Lorena Allum

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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
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Pauline Clague

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Beyond ethnicity, becoming Asian - Australian. How does one address issues of ethnicity? What is authenticity?

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