An afternoon with Richard Trudgen
Friday 9 June 2023 from 2.00 - 4.00pm
Venue: Oorala Aboriginal Centre and ZOOM
Oorala, UNE Law and the Armidale Froends of Myall Creek hosted cross-cultural community educator and author Mr Richard Trudgen.
Richard engaged in conversation with Prof. Joe Fraser, Dr Brooke Kennedy facilitated by proud Biripi/Dunghutti woman Janelle Speed and Adam Blakester about giving voice to truth-telling.
This Yarning is part of the weekend of memorial activities commemorating the Wirrayaraaypeople who were murdered in the Myall Creek Massacre of 1838. The weekend culminates in a memorial ceremony at the Myall Creek Memorial site near Bingara, NSW on Sunday 11 June 2023. More on the memorial can be found at this link: https://myallcreek.org/the-massacre-story/
A FREE bus for UNE students was available to the Myall Creek Commemorative Ceremony on Sunday 11 June. 2023.
Yarning with Truth Telling with Richard Trudgen
The Myall Creek battle still goes on in 2023.
When a new world drops in any group of people, many things go wrong for First nations People (FNP) groups for generation into the future. Many know about the Intergenerational Transfer of Trauma, but little is known about the Intergenerational Transfer of Confusion. However, the main sustaining battle in the Inherited Structural Violence that exists between the English-speaking Australian commnuity and FNP's.
This Inherited Structural Violence came from the original settlers and has been handed onto contemporary Australians. It is the silent weapon that; impacts cross-cultural relationships, fill hospitals and jails with FNP and is the underlying cause of violence seen in many Aboriginal communiteies and the kickback across the mainstream Australians private property and business. This violence needs to be understood, outed and dealt with.
About Richard Trudgen
Richard Trudgen has been a pioneering figure in community development and education for near on 50 years, of which 42 have been spent working with the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land. Based in the Northern Territory at Nhulunbuy on the Gove Peninsula in north-east Arnhem Land, Richard speaks Djambarrpuyŋu and was CEO of Aboriginal Resource Development Services (ARDS) for a number of years. With strong directions from Yolngu elders, he wrote the book “Why Warriors Lie Down and Die“, built Yolngu Radio and spent 15 years presenting the Bridging The Gap seminars to audiences across Australia. Yolngu Elders are also pushing him to build an e-Learning online school in Yolngu Matha.
These projects empower Yolngu and share Yolngu culture and the crisis they face with the wider Australian community. The seminars are now going online with a new Cultural Courses platform.
Today Richard leads our bicultural, bilingual production team that is committed to giving Yolngu people access to answers about health, economic, legal, governance, general information, and hard English terms in their own language.
For more information, visit: https://www.whywarriors.com.au/about/who-we-are/
