Year 12 ATAR English
No Sugar by Jack Davis
This subject guide is to support your Year 12 ATAR ENGLISH study of
No Sugar
by Jack Davis
If you have any problems with these resources or need further help, please contact the Teacher Librarians via lis@mlc.wa.edu.au
Last updated: July 2018
Carroll, D. (1994). Australian contemporary drama. (Rev.). Paddington, N.S.W: Currency Press Pty Ltd.
Jose, N. (Ed.). (2009). Macquarie PEN anthology of Australian literature. Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin.
Facing writers with Jack Davis [Video file]. (1989). Retrieved from ClickView database.
This is an interview with Jack Davis in 1989.
Funfillums. (2016, May 10). First born: The life and times of Jack Davis [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvQdtXIpro
Funfillums. (2016, May 10). Jack Davis: 1970 documentary [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08qAijnxOO0
Australian 4 Corners documentary about indigenous Australian playwright, poet and activist Jack Davis from 1970.
Howie-Willis, I. (1994). Davis, Jack. Encyclopaedia Of Aboriginal Australia, 12. Retrieved from Australian/ New Zealand Reference Centre.
Jack Davis. (2017). Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A286
Live Performance Australia. (2007). Jack Davis. Retrieved from http://www.liveperformance.com.au/halloffame/jackdavis1.html
National Museum Australia. (n.d.). Jack Davis. Retrieved from http://indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/jack_davis
Brennan, B. (2014). No sugar. Retrieved from https://readingaustralia.com.au/essays/no-sugar/
Eckersley, M. (2013). No sugar, Jack Davis. Cheltenham, Vic: Insight Publications.
Eckersley, M. (2013). No sugar, Jack Davis: preview. Cheltenham, Vic: Insight Publications.
This is an extract from the book and provides a character map, author information and a play synopsis.
No Sugar by Jack Davis. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.englishworks.com.au/sugar-jack-davis/
Then
Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. (2018). Moore River Native Settlement Centenary Photographic Collection. Retrieved from https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/achwa/Pages/Moore-River.aspx
Eatts, D. L. (n.d.). Stolen generations. Retrieved from https://www.noongarculture.org.au/stolen-generations/
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. (1997). Bringing them home: Chapter 7 – Western Australia. Retrieved from https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-chapter-7
This report provide a historical overview of the stolen generation in Western Australia.
Land, kinship & culture [Video file]. (1999) . Retrieved from Clickview database.
Missions, settlements and reserves [Video file]. (1999) . Retrieved from Clickview database.
This program presents an account of government policies of protection which resulted in Indigenous people being removed to missions, reserves and settlements. Although it uses examples from the Eastern states it will give you an idea of the experiences of Indigenous people living and working on these kind of missions, reserves and settlements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Neville, A. O. (1947). Australia’s coloured minority : its place in the community. In Museums Victoria Collections.Retrieved from https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/1496210
Perpitch, N. (2018, May 27). A journey into ‘hell on Earth’. ABC News.Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-26/moore-river-aboriginal-settlement-journey-into-hell-on-earth/9790658
1980s and beyond
Hawley, J., Hewett, T., & Monaghan, D. (2018, January 26). 30 years on: Pomp and protest as Sydney celebrates the Bicentenary. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved from https://www.smh.com.au/national/30-years-on-pomp-and-protest-as-sydney-celebrates-the-bicentenary-20180126-h0optp.html
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. (1997). Bringing them home: Chapter 7 – Western Australia. Retrieved from https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-chapter-7
This report provide a historical overview of the stolen generation in Western Australia.
National apology to the stolen generations [Video file].(2008). Retrieved from Clickview database.
Pose, M. (2009). Indigenous Protest, Australian Bicentenary, 1988. In Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved from https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/2835
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MLC Library resources.
Use the link opposite to locate novels, short stories, poetry books, non-fiction narrative (i.e. autobiographies/ biographies), films and documentaries related to Australian Indigenous issues.
Further online resources
ABC. (2016, September 14). You can’t ask that: Indigenous [Video file]. Retrieved from ClickView database.
ABC. (2018). Wrong Kind of Black [Video file]. Retrieved from ClickView database.
All 4 episodes are edited together in this link. Or you can watch each episode separately on iView.
Absolum, C. (Producer). (2013, May 28). SBS CQ: Who should tell Indigenous stories? [Video file] . Retrieved from https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/35834435662/sbs-cq-who-should-tell-indigenous-stories
You will need an SBS on Demand account to view this video.
Australia Day debate: Indigenous community leaders fo and against date change [Video file]. (2018, January 25). Retrieved from https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1145379907767/australia-day-debate-indigenous-community-leaders-for-and-against-date-change
Australian Government. (2018). NAIDOC. Retrieved from https://www.naidoc.org.au
Australian’s together. (n.d.). Stories. Retrieved from https://www.australianstogether.org.au/stories/
Bodey, M. (2011, September 28). Andrew Bolt loses racial vilification court case. The Australian. Retrieved from https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/andrew-bolt-x-racial-vilification-court-case/news-story/3c920f44a5d5e4bf26fd3119588c3fb2?sv=964ac90f6795625269b36465099b4809
Cole, B., Anderson, C., & Glynn, E. (Directors). Black Comedy [Television series]. Retrieved from Clickview Exchange database.
Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5
Creative Spirits. (n.d.). Aboriginal poems. Retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/aboriginal-poems#toc0
Creative Spirits. (n.d.). Appropriate words & terminology for Aboriginal topics. Retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/media/appropriate-terminology-for-aboriginal-topics
Creative Spirits. (n.d.). Australian Aboriginal history. Retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/
Dawson, W. (2017, September 11). Future Perfect: Indigenous Speculative Futures [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au/future-perfect-indigenous-speculative-futures/
Listen to this podcast about Indigenous speculative futures.
Delmege, S. (2005). A Trans-Generational Effect of The Aborigines Act 1905 (WA): The Making of the Fringedwellers in the South-West of Western Australia. Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law. Retrieved from http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MurUEJL/2005/6.html
Flinders University. (n.d.). Appropriate Terminology, Indigenous Australian People. Retrieved from https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/10043/appropriate_indigenous_terminoloy.pdf
Flynn, D. (2017, October 23). White people should never rap the n-word: A linguist breaks it down. The conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/white-people-should-never-rap-the-n-word-a-linguist-breaks-it-down-84673
Funfillums. (2016, May 10). Jack Davis: 1970 Documentary [Video file]. Retrieved by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08qAijnxOO0
Funfillums. (2016, May 11). Facing writers: Jack Davis [Video file]. Retrieved by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4__UDe5FE
An interview with Jack Davis
Gaertner, D. (2015, March 23). “What’s a story like you doing in a place like this” Cyberspace and Indigenous Futurism. Novel Alliances. Retrieved from https://novelalliances.com/2015/03/23/whats-a-story-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-cyberspace-and-indigenous-futurism-in-neal-stephensons-snow-crash/
Hirini, R. (2018, July 12). Noongar designer to showcase world’s first high fashion Aboriginal shoe on home soil. NITV. Retrieved from https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/07/11/noongar-designer-worlds-first-high-fashion-aboriginal-shoe?cx_navSource=related-side-cx#cxrecs_s
Impacts of Law Post 1905. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.noongarculture.org.au/impacts-of-law-post-1905/
Jones, J. (2012). Blancamorphosis. Overland. Retrieved from https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-208/fiction-jannali-jones/
Fiction writing by Jannali Jones
ladyreddress. (2014, July 6). Celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Writing: Interview with Ambelin Kwaymullina [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://australianwomenwriters.com/2014/07/celebration-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-womens-writing-interview-with-ambelin-kwaymullina/
Meldrum-Hanna, C., Hitchens, C., & Ferguson, S. (2016). Callous disregard [Video file]. Retrieved from Clickview database.
Melville, K. (2016, October 25). Rottnest Island: Black prison to white playground. ABC News. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-25/rottnest-island-black-prison-to-white-playground/7962940
Miller, M., Bell, J. (Writers), Blair, W. & Purcell, L (Directors). Cleverman [Television series]. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/cleverman/
Season 2 is available on ABC iView. All episodes of Season 1 will be available in ClickView soon. Episode 1 is available from the next reference.
Miller, M., Bell, J. (Writers), Blair, W. (Director). First contact [Television series episode]. Cleverman. Retrieved from ClickView Exchange database.
Solonec, T. (2014, November 27) The trauma of Oombulgurri’s demolition will be repeated across Western Australia. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/the-trauma-of-oombulgurris-demolition-will-be-repeated-across-western-australia
Starkey, B. S. (2017, May 18). If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d NEVER use it. The undefeated. Retrieved from https://theundefeated.com/features/if-you-truly-knew-what-the-n-word-meant-to-our-ancestors-youd-never-use-it/
Sundance TV. (2016, May 10). Cleverman: Official trailer [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpMrzFHPnoI
Tedx Talks. (2016, October 26). What Aboriginal knowledge can teach us about happiness: Sheree Cairney [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-dK8HFP2c
Tedx Talks. (2017, July 19). The Art of Forgetting, Australians and their History: David Hunt [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vdBUDDVD2A
Tedx Talks. (2018, January 10). What Is It Like To Be Aboriginal?: Tui Raven [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y1T3JfzRGE
Western Australia. (1095). Aboriginies Act 1905. Retrieved from https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/digitised_collections/remove/52790.pdf