When George Golvan's granddaughter recently embarked on her roots project for school, little did she know she would stumble across a diary the family had never seen before. It was written by George's mother, survivor Helen Golvan, immediately after the war, and is a rare testimony of her time in the Warsaw Ghetto. It has since been translated from Polish by the Jewish Holocaust Centre and archived by Yad Vashem. This is Helen's story.

John Bulun Bulun commencing the creation of a bark painting in Garmedi outstation in Central Arnhem Land which was used in evidence in the first of the Aboriginal copyright cases  - conducted in that year.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers of this film are advised that it contains the voice and images of a deceased person.

The documents in this section are a comprehensive collection of original materials from a number of Indigenous copyright cases and related copyright activities in which I have been involved. They include affidavits, pleadings and submissions, and will hopefully be of assistance to those wishing to know “what happened” in the conduct of the trials and disputes involving claims of copyright and other rights in Indigenous artworks.

Some images from the Blackman and Dickerson case and a link to the judgment in the case.

These images of aboriginal art are from the Carpets Case discussed in the article “Aboriginal Art and Copyright - An Overview and Commentary Concerning Recent Developments”