Telling Places in Country (TPIC)

Aims


  1. To expand the scope of research derived from N J B Plomley ed. Friendly Mission, the Tasmanian journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson
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  2. To retrace and re-map George Augustus Robinson's progress through Aboriginal country while on forays to make contact with the Northeast clans.
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  3. To facilitate the telling of Aboriginal stories about themselves, their ancestors and their history.
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  4. To reveal the northeastern Tasmanian landscape as containing places of profound socio-cultural and historical significance and raise local, regional and external consciousness of the significance of Tasmania as an Aboriginal place and landscape.
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  5. To generate greater appreciation of the cultural importance of place in the shared histories of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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  6. To develop a best practice model for Aboriginal community engaged and participatory research project protocols appropriate to, and salient in, the Tasmanian context.
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