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'Stories for country': Aboriginal history, oral history, and land claims

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dc.contributor.authorMcGrath, Ann
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-15T05:27:25Z
dc.date.available2015-05-15T05:27:25Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T08:30:16Z
dc.description.abstractIn January 1985 I travelled to Darwin to appear as an expert witness for the Northern Land Council in the Upper Daly land claim. While awaiting another expert (on potatoes!) to complete his lengthy evidence, several days were spent nervously shuffling through documents, in unsettling view of the hotel's palmy pool. More than ready to be cross-examined, I was glad to be in the witness stand at last. But my seat was hardly warm when counsel for the objectors asked that the Land Commissioner rule my historical submission inadmissable. This was on the grounds that the oral history material included was ' rank hearsay' . I was outraged; is this what lawyers think of oral history?
dc.identifier.isbn0909897530en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/13492
dc.publisherThe Australian Academy of the Humanities
dc.relation.ispartofProof and truth: the humanist as expert
dc.relation.isversionof1 Edition
dc.rights© The Author(s). Publisher permission to deposit a version granted via email on 14/05/2015.
dc.source.urihttp://www.humanities.org.au/Publications/Catalogue/EditedCollections.aspxen_AU
dc.title'Stories for country': Aboriginal history, oral history, and land claims
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage262en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationCanberra ACT
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage251en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMcGrath, A., Australian Centre for Indigenous History, School of History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu4054197en_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor210303 - Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
local.identifier.absfor180101 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law
local.identifier.absfor210301 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub17349
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.humanities.org.au/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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