SCRGI has presented a number of shared history seminars since 2015. The seminars provide the Sunshine Coast community with information about First Nations’/settlers’ shared history of the frontier; and Aboriginal dispossession in South-East Queensland.. Presented by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people they provide an opportunity for truth telling, discussion and reflection.
Past seminar topics include:
- The landscape of Aboriginal Resistance- new research – boras, camps and frontier wars
- Songlines and Creation Stories
- Exploration & Settlement: Cooperation and Conflict
- Missions, Reserves & Forced Removals
- First People’s Rights- a glimpse of the struggles for justice
- Reflections on the 1967 Referendum
- First Nations Languages
- Patterns of Dispossession & the Way Forward
- Encounters with Explorers, Convicts & Seafarers
- Un-Mystery History & Reflections on Reconciliation
- Exploring Archaeology- Adding to First Nations Stories
- Settlement & Dispossession: a case study of Guran – Cooran & the Kabi Kabi people
- Meet the Indigenous Elders
- Frontier war and Imagining Life before Invasion
- Stolen Wages
