Brindle Style

In the great forgetting there are stories of solidarity. Stories of comradeship that are the natural result of fallas living and working TOGETHER. Black, White and Brindle.

Shared stories. Working class stories.  NOT EVERY AUSTRALIAN is a racist dog by the time of the 1960s and 1970s  Even in the regional areas. Even in places that voted NO to the 1967 referendum to end policies of assimilationism.

Even in Western Australia over 80% of the population DID vote YES to what is essentially recognition. Policy makers continuing to dredge that shit up again and again is surely PROJECTION.

AUSTRALIA needs to reExamine and reCognise it's own IDENTITY amid 40 years of transnational conglomeration.  Like us Globalism doesn't care if they're black white or brindle EITHER.

MAKE AUSTRALIA GROUSE AGAIN? 

Brindle Style is specifically and pointedly NOT about or produced for the white community but what the hey, it's twenty years on, merely an artist narrative, and it seems that the 'class struggle' matters more than ever before. Generations of Aussies are saturated in fictious yarn, steeped in imported content a nation bereft of True Stories is not in a good position to bargain a future. 

Only those of us who were listening to the elders and those who were there, reMember and they are dying at a rapid rate. 

WHAT AN EXCITING TIME IT IS FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SECTOR. BRINDLE STYLE ARTISTS NETWORK (AUSTRANESIA) CELEBRATES TWENTY YEARS OF MEDIA PRODUCTION AND RESEARCH. An Artists Narrative - haha not the j word. journalling.

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LET'S GET REAL ABOUT EDUCATION, INNOVATION, PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY & EMPLOYMENT.  SOCIAL INNOVATION DIALOGUE AND CULTURAL MAPPING - A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION. 

NORMA McCarthy: "WHAT ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN?"

Maiia: "Australian? BAH! There was never going to BE an Australia.  It was a con an' I don't mean CONVICT! They brought you criminal mob out to Australia as labour because slavery was (more or less) illegal.  And automation was still an industrialists dream.

A larrikin conversation, a GREAT BIG STIR. A fairly amusing argument with a fairly amusing, argumentative Australian elder. Years later however, what the outsider and visionary artist Norma mcCarthy was observing about a disappearing Australia, makes a lot more sense.  It pairs with the "ReCOGNITION" idea - only it's the White Falla who needs to re-examine history and cultural identity. 

"The people who do not cultivate their memory will never be able to construct their own history and will lack independence and sovereignty. They will not be able to interpret their past, confront the present or project their future." - Tupac Amaru II (1738 -1781) A leader in the Peruvian struggle for independence.

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Millions of ordinary people were written out of their own history by consolidated media ownership. The disappearing Australian wandered off into the sunset - hand in hand with the Labour Party.  Australia died with the Whitlam government.  You just couldn't tell something had changed because Royal weddings were still on tele and the cover of the now defunct Australian Women's Weekly.  (Gentrification in the form of America's "Better Homes and Gardens" now takes the crown of biggest selling magazine in Australia)

The Disappearing Australian, wandered off into the sunset, hand in hand with the Labour Party!  In both Australia and in England.  Haha - the disappearance of ENGLAND itself? Well that is a story one for another day.  RECOVERING AUSTRALIA. 

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