There are other conversations many of them more recent.
I spent 12 years doing aboriginal health and aeromedical work in Central Australia and all my 3 children were born in Alice. I haven't had time to study FOD, but I will. I thought I'd let you know about a URL you might appreciate on http://www.medicineau.net.au which has a link to the culture training manual for medical workers on remote aboriginal communities. cheers,
Dr Hugh Nelson, Chair IM/IT Committee Gold Coast Division of GP. (hugh.nelson@ausinfo.com.au)
Peter Hopgood. (pmh@itsolutions.com.au)
Regards, Peter Hopgood. (pmh@itsolutions.com.au)
Mary Featherston (marybf@ozemail.com.au)
I am presently writing up my thesis at the moment and hope to be finished by the end of the year. I have referred to your work on a number of occasions and hope you do not have any problems with this. My angle is how you have used narrative in the new medium to tell an historical story. If you would like to meet some time and swap some ideas, it may be mutually beneficial. I met Andrew Pam the other day as to get some background to the Xanadu project. I used to work for a company that funded research into Xanadu. Anyway, the title of my thesis is "De-centring History: The Author of History in the Age of Electronic Reproduction".
I also have a pathological hate for backgrounds other than white: they slow down the delivery over international links. You haven't lived until you have waited interminably for a download! Rod Staples (Rst.Staff.vet.eng.rmit@Etc.et.rmit.edu.au)
Provision for thought is engendered by the words and observations of both yourself and your father, and I would hazzard a guess that the picture "Shadow on the Olgas" holds special significance for you, and for your father's aspirations.
Words cannot adequately express the evocation of your evolving website, and there is little doubt that it deserves the awards it has attracted. However, the really important awards are those which are individually given ... the fractal sum of the many small reports which assist in establishing a personal dimension of reward for the labour and work out of which the site has gradually emerged to where is stands today, and tomorrow.
Accept this note as one such contribution ... I will be linking to your main page from a resource of my own labour entitled "Global Terrestrial Nativity and the Cosmic Solidarity of the Human Soul" which is located at the following address:
http://magna.com.au/~prfbrown/nativity.html
Perhaps, somewhere up the track, where all paths meet, the differences of many peoples - the manifest diversity of cultures and beliefs and opinionated struggle - will be seen to involve the nature of a fundamental commonality, and that within the complex and third millenial specifications of scientific analysis of the living environment which most know as nature, there will dawn the appreciation of the simple and the straight-forward observation hiding, as it were, in the very midst of simplicity.
Such is the world we share. All the best for now, Pete Brown - Mountain Man Graphics (prfbrown@magna.com.au)
Carolyn Osterhaus (c.osterhaus@afc.gov.au)
i am sorry for what i said. i am making a homepage for myself and i found out that it is quite hard. So i appreciate what you've done for me. and i think that homepage is very good. i'am starting on a homepage. Do you think you can help???? i am a begginer and lack of experience so, i need help from a master just like you!!!!
do you think you can help?????? reply as soon as possible!!!
yap seong voon (pskill@mol.net.my)
watch my homepage and learn!!!!!!!
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/2610!!!!!
youknow it is very hard to search for aborigines!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS A HANDICAP HOMEPAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BETTER PUT IN TO YOUR PENTION!!!!!!!
yap seong voon (pskill@mol.net.my)
As an aside, I wonder if you know of:
Johannsen, Kurt G. 1992. _A Son of 'The Red Centre'_. Memoirs and anecdotes of the life of road train pioneer and bush inventor of the Northern Territory of Australia. Edited by Daphne Palmer. Published by Kurt Johannsen, 3 Stephens Place, Morphettville SA 5043 (08)2944981 (089)522477 (089)522031(fax). [ix]+254pp. Richmond, SA: Hyde Park Press. ISBN 0 646 11448 4 $24.95
Chapter 12 tells of taking some Uni. Adelaide people to Mt Liebig in January 1934, which sounds similar but not the same as the trip you document; yet this appears to have been Johannsen's first trip out that way, so it is a bit of a puzzle how to correlate the two accounts.
(David.Nash@anu.edu.au)
Anyway, for the time being, I have listed it on my anthropology sites. www.pitt.edu/~lmitten/anthro.html Thanks again - Lisa Mitten (lmitten@vms.cis.pitt.edu)
Yours Truly Julian Evans. My Phone no is 08 8388 2588 Fax is 08 8388 2017
(myglass@tpgi.com.au)
Philip A. DesAutels (philipd@w3.org)
As one who has been researching aspects of Aboriginal Astronomy for
a project to provide a full discussion of the development of astronomy
as a science in Australia, (see "Explorers of the Southern Sky", CUP,
1996, Authors: Raymond Haynes, Roslynn Haynes, David Malin and Dick
McGee)and one who has spent a lot of time over the last year improving
and continually modifying a www site to present Australian Astronomy to
the public (see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/) I think your innovative
approach to the use of the www and the way you propose continuing that
updating process is great.
Congratualtions on the prize ... that was the way I discovered your site
address.
Raymond Haynes (observer@rp.CSIRO.AU)
Julie Lake (chass@gnn.com)
Given your work "The Flight of Ducks" I would like to send you an
"Expression of Interest" proforma as you may like to be to be included
on our service provider register.
Digital preservation is an ongoing issue for the Museum(s) at large.
I've forwarded your site reference "Lest We Forget" to those considering
digital preservation issues. Linda Sproul (lsproul@mov.vic.gov.au)
Julie Lake (chass@gnn.com)
I've included a link under the title `Digital Fragility' with your name at:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/word.html (under `Textual Media')
- Dr Daniel Chandler (dgc@aber.ac.uk)
regards Stuart Murdoch (Two Sheds)(smurdoch@netspace.net.au)
walter - homo obsolescensis (whenry@lindy.stanford.edu)
The main screen looks great especially with the opening anims, but
personally I found the instructional icons such as site etc, were
informitive but given as much prominence as the other navigational
paths. Perhaps they could be seperated in some way from, photographs,
ethics, journals etc.
As I read through the journals I instinctively found myself clicking on
the links before I had read the whole passage. This is entirely my own
fault because I was overwhelmed by the incredible photograhic
reference. The result of my impatience was I tended to loose the plot a
little. I don,t think this is a design problem as the average user is
used to using the links.
As I travelled through I felt I could use some visual reinforcement in
terms of maps etc. I found this as we left Adelaide and travelled I
would have liked to plot the course as we went.
These are very small points and I feel that overall from my experience
the project is rich and very engaging and I will be particularly
interested in the 3D artifacts (woodeni@ozemail.com.au)
(clark@rmit.edu.au)
We realise that this will need to be done in cooperation with publishers and
authors of online materials. With your permission, we would like to consider
the title 'Flight of Ducks' for inclusion in our project.(wsmith@nla.gov.au)
I guess my only complaint is that the paths to follow seemed a
little obscure. I wonder if I visited all the sections? While on the
one hand I suspect you're promoting such mystery, on the other, would it
be possible to provide an index to make sure everything has been seen?
For example, your URL results in "spockley1.html". Links on that
page are not to "spockley2 or 3". While such locations can be found by
changing the URL directly, I'm not sure I found them while browsing!
Anyway, thanks for the pleasant experience!(hytexplor@earthlink.net)
(trigar@mlode.com)
(cunnington@lib.unimelb.edu.au)
It's great!
I'm an historian at Uni Technology Sydney, involved in both teaching
[Masters Applied & Public History students about interactive
multimedia production in history] and in production [working with
Aboriginal community historians on a CD-ROM experiment to see if this
medium is useful for community history and cultural recording for the
northwest areas of NSW: Collarenebri to Brewarrina - called "Angledool
Stories"].
In both thes areas, we are engaged with many of the issues and
questions with which your work is also engaged: about how we
understand the past, how we create stories about it, what impact it
has on our lives, what memory is, the relation between private and
public understandings, between memory and 'history', the way our
understanding of images and documents is related, etc, etc. Your site
is the most stimulating and rich I have come across. I look forward to
visiting many more times and learning as I watch how it develops.
(torzillo@geko.net.au)
(dwoodyar@nla.gov.au)
this means a much cleaner page.
have fun. (robin@dove.mtx.net.au)
Anyway, this is easily the most imaginative and poetic web site I have
seen. I'm in awe.(altarama@ozemail.com.au)
http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/spockley/spockley1.html
Very nice and clear introduction. Love its simplicity
http://minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au/~s9501395/spockley4.html
The Duck icon on top of a duck background gets kinda lost. It also looks a
bit jumpled in the top left hand corner of the screen.
The table of contents could be more effective if you used the following:
Body of the page -
Text -
Tighten the list of contents so that the outlying links on the far right and
left look part of the structure I think you're alluding to.
Exit and Contents could be a bit more discrete. Also, its not clear with
Exit leads us the the Annexe when the Introduction page (spockley1.html)
does not suggest any link or relationship to it.
Instructions could be called "Site Guide" or something similar. It wasn't
immediatly obvious to me what this section would lead me to.
I'll make more comments when I have some more time to spend looking over it.
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Simon, is this how your project will finally be presented? I thought it was
going to go onto a CD? Regardless, it would be worthwhile to perhaps
consider seeking some funding from with the AFC or Vic Arts to bring in an
interface designer. You have some excellent content here and a structure
that can be rather easily developed upon. It would be a fun project to work on.
Good luck with it...(agarton@peg.apc.org)
It is a very large site with plenty of information which always poses
problems of accessibility and easy navigation. But such problems can be
easily solved (eventually). One solution is to make the table of contents
as simple to follow as possible - perhaps using a tree like structure
with the contents page at the top, followed by the most important sub-
headings and branching out from them. That was the idea behind my
contents page, it seemed to work quite well. (Stephanie.Hawkins@anu.edu.au)
If, after looking through the site more carefully, we have any questions,
would you mind if I or my assistant, Tina, wrote to you again?
Best wishes, Macus Banks HADDON Project
(marcus.banks@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk)
