Contemporary Art Auction in support of the Koorie Heritage Trust Sunday 27 May 2007 @ Deutscher Hackett & Hackett, 105 Commercial Road, South Yarra Viewing & Lunch from 1pm Auction starts at 5pm Please click on the link below to view the online catalogue. http://www.weisfilms.com/kirripclub/auction.html http://www.weisfilms.com/kirripclub/auction.htmlMission Voiceshttp://www.abc.net.au/missionvoices

A unique, interactive website telling the stories of six Aboriginal mission stations and reserves in Victoria. It looks at the history, experiences and events of missions through the oral stories of Elders who came from missions, or whose family came from them. Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (AAV)http://www.dvc.vic.gov.au/aav.htm Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (AAV) is the Victorian Government's central point of advice on all aspects of Aboriginal affairs in Victoria. This policy advice may relate to services provided by other State Government agencies, Commonwealth departments, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), or to services delivered within the Aboriginal community. AAV is often the first point of call by members of the Aboriginal community and its organisations requiring information on a wide range of issues. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ AIATSIS is an independent Commonwealth Government statutory authority devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. It is Australia's premier institution for information about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Bringing Them Home Oral History Project (National Library of Australia)http://www.nla.gov.au/oh/bth/ In December 1997, in response to the first recommendation of Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, the Commonwealth Government announced the National Library would be funded to develop and manage a new oral history project. The oral history project will collect and preserve the stories of Indigenous people and others, such as missionaries, police and administrators involved in or affected by the process of child removals. Bunjilakahttp://melbourne.museum.vic.gov.au Bunjilaka is the Aboriginal Centre at Melbourne Museum, a campus of Museum Victoria. It was developed to empower Aboriginal people to interpret their own cultural heritage for both indigenous and non-indigenous people. Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Co-operative Limitedhttp://www.ilbijerri.org.au/ Ilbijerri was incorporated in 1991 and since then has been responsible for initiating and developing performances which speak of issues and experiences that are particular to our Community and which are expressed from our distinctive perspective by Indigenous artists. Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC)http://www.ilc.gov.au/ The Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) is a Commonwealth statutory authority that assists Indigenous people to acquire land and to manage Indigenous-held land throughout Australia. National Archives of Australia (NAA)http://www.naa.gov.au/ The National Archives of Australia cares for valuable Commonwealth government records and makes them available for present and future generations to use. Their recordkeeping standards help government to account to the public, ensuring that evidence is available to support people’s rights and entitlements and that future generations will have a meaningful record of the past. Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce (Public Record Office Victoria)http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/ Recommendation 23 of the 1997 report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Children from their Families'Bringing Them Home' stated that "The Commonwealth and each State and Territory Government establish and fund a Records Taskforce constituted by representatives from government and church and other non-government record agencies and Indigenous user services". Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL)http://www.vaclang.org.au/home.html The Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages was established in 1994 and is the state body responsible for coordinating community Language programs throughout Victoria. This involves retrieving, recording and researching Aboriginal languages and providing a central resource on Victorian Aboriginal Languages.