Northland Secondary College: Koori kids' education

This project, initiated via the Aboriginal History Archive, used extensive community engagement to re-gather the Aboriginal & non-Aboriginal students, parents, staff and community artists & musicians of Preston East Tech/Northland Secondary College who had built the culture of this remarkable school & successfully fought the Victorian government's 1992 decision to close it. We embraced Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing & developed multiple forms of storytelling, enabling us to revisit this epic story of struggle and reinstate & highlight the unique culture of the school. We created a Melbourne Museum exhibition, a YIRRAMBOI Festival stage-show, a vinyl record, a Digital Stories Series, lasting collaborations & follow-on research.

Output(s)

Fight for survival: Cultural resistance - Reasonable Rational Responsible - The story of Northland Secondary College

Type

Exhibition

Authors

Gary Foley

Publisher

Public Record Office Victoria

Publication date

2022

An Exhibition and Gathering about Aboriginal Identity, resilience and celebration, commemorating the grassroots fight against the decision to shut down the Northland Secondary College

Type

Exhibition

Publisher

Northlands Campaign Community History Project

Publication date

2020

Project information

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Community / Language group(s)

Project contact(s)

Professor Gary Foley

gfoley@kooriweb.org

Researcher(s)

Professor Gary Foley
Dr Clare Land

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

2018

End date2022

Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

Funder(s)

Organisation(s)

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Professor Gary Foley was born in Grafton (1950), northern NSW, of Gumbainggir descent. He has been at the centre of major political activities for more than 40 years.

Northland Secondary College: Koori kids' education

Output(s)

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AIATSIS acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognises their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.