Brett Mansell interviewed by Peter Read and Jackie Huggins in 2001 for the Seven years on - continuing life histories of Aboriginal leaders oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2361859
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mansell, Brett, 1972-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2001 Mar. 21
- 3 digital audio tape (ca. 168 min.)
- Series:
- Seven years on - continuing life histories of Aboriginal leaders oral history project
- Summary:
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Mansell, a football coach and activist, speaks of his family and their move from Cape Barren Island to Launceston in the 1950s, his schooling then leaving to become a panel beating apprentice, his love of football and playing for the Tasmanian Football League, his work in the Tasmanian Dept. of Sport and Recreation to promote cultural transmission among the young, his role models, how well he coped in high school with his mother's assistance and developed his own sense of identity, the impact of the political party One Nation in Tasmania, his involvement in the movement for an Aboriginal Provisional Government (APG) in Tasmania, discovering a new way of working to progress the APG in the board room rather than demonstrating on the streets, his views of Aboriginal sportspeople, his own sporting career as a level 3 football coach, his cultural awareness work with the young and his work with Aboriginal elders, how to go muttonbirding, his relationship with wife Jodi and the cultural upbringing needed for his son Ryan, religion and the Dreamtime, why the Tasmanian Aboriginal community is so fractured, the future and his life in Launceston.
- Notes:
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- The Australian Provisional Government (AGP) is a movement formed by the delegates to the 1990 meeting of the National Federation of Land Councils. The aim of the APG is to promote Aborigines as a people and not as a minority and therefore not forever governed by Australians, and the means to do this is the reacquisition of land as a process enabling the formation of an independent and sovereign Aboriginal state. To this end, the AGP supports the return of all crown land to provide the foundation for Aboriginal economic independence, advocates a separate Aboriginal team for the Olympic Games and the return of human remains from overseas universities and museums. Since 1992 regional committees have been set up in each state.
- Recorded on Mar. 21, 2001 in Launceston, Tas.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Related Material:
- A second interview with Brett Mansell was recorded in 2007 and is held in the National Library of Australia's Oral History and Folklore collection at ORAL TRC 5889. Third interview in this series was recorded in 2019 and is held in the National Library of Australia's Oral History and Indigenous Programs Collection at ORAL TRC 7173.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 67 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Mansell, Brett, 1972- -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Provisional Government
- Self-determination, National -- Australia
- Football coaches -- Tasmania -- Launceston -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Launceston -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Ethnic identity
- Political activists, Aboriginal Australian -- Tasmania -- Interviews
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- Creation date:
- 2001
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