INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
Photography by Lisa Bellear
Lou Bennett, Singer/Songwriter, NAIDOC Rally, July 2000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Aunty Ida West, Writer and Aunty Doris Pilkington, Writer, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Lola Forrester and Uncle Kevin Smith, 3rd National Indigenous Playwrites Conference, April 2000, Tandanya, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Janina Harding, Kim Kruger, Christian Thompson, Fiona Foley and Johnny Harding, Adelaide Festival Club, April 2000, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Brenda Webb, Singer/Songwriter/Actor, 3rd National Indigenous Australian Playwrights' Conference, April 2000, Tandanya, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Tom E Lewis
Shari Gates, Actor, and Leroy Parsons, Actor, 3rd National Indigenous Australian Playwrights' Conference, April 2000, Tandanya, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Johnny Harding, Poet/Actor/Playwrights', NAIDOC Rally, July 2000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Kimba Thompson and Charmaine Clarke, May 2000, Clyde Hotel, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
Anita Heiss, Writer/Poet, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Sara Bond and Daniel King, NAIDOC Rally, July 2000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Larry Walsh
Sara Bond, Photographer/Model/Artist and Dennis Fish (Den The Fish), Poet/Photographer/Actor/ Artist.
Kutcha Edwards, 3CR Radio, 2000, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
Uncle Herb Wharton, Poet/Writer, and Melissa Brickwell, Poet/Writer, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
Kenny Laughton, Writer, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Connie Andrews, Musician, Feb 2000.
Uncle Jacky Charles, Actor, 2000, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Tracey Moffat, Filmmaker/Photographer/Actor and Rebecca McLean, Film Maker/Actor, Elwood, Victoria, Australia.
Land Rights Not Mining Rights
Stories & Songs of the people: model unknown
Sorry Australian Volunteers International
more dykes on telly
Look Around you concrete
Oppose the racist mandatory sentencing laws.
Your Tax Buys My Drugs.
Mr I Hate Aboriginal People Howard et al
Aboriginal Flag, NAIDOC, 1999.
About the Photographer Lisa Bellear
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Lisa Marie Bellear was born in Melbourne. Actively involved in Indigenous affairs throughout the country Lisa is passionate about social justice and simply looking after each other. She has been a volunteer broadcaster on 3CR community radio for 11 years on the Not Another Koori Show. Lisa's poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies. She was been nominated for the 1995 Human Rights Award for Poetry for her poem "Native Title Now". The poem is the title of an exhibition of Aboriginal art currently touring Australia. Lisa Bellear has read at literary festivals, pubs and conferences in Australia and in the USA. For the two years she has sat on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature Panel of the Australia Council as well as sitting on the selection committee of the RAKA (Ruth Adney Koori) Award. Lisa completed her Master of Arts degree at the University of Queensland and is doing her PhD (English) at La Trobe University - contemporary indigenous issues through radio and photographic text. Lisa's first book of poetry is Dreaming In Urban Areas (UQP, 1996). |
[Above] Photo of Lisa Bellear by Jenni Mitchell, 1999.
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