Mission Voices. New ABC/Film Victoria Accord project goes online.

Launched Tuesday 3rd August, Produced by Ricci Swart, Creatively Directed by Jo Lane, designed and built by designIT, Mission Voices is a site that allows viistors to share in the unique culture and history of Victorian Aboriginal (Koorie) people.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and all the team for the effort, creativity and absolute commitment that you put in to make this site a success.
Our staff, Board and Elders at the Trust are incredibly proud and moved by the work we have all created and we look forward to celebrating it's launch with you on the day."
Genevieve Grieves
Coodinator, Oral History Unit

Hear the Elders tell of their lives on missions and reserves. They are places full of contradictions. The Koorie Heritage Trust and State Library of Victoria have compiled the content into the first ever doumentary using the resources from their collections. The Koorie Hertiage Trust collected stories from the Elders in Victoria to give a fresh new perspective of this part of our history and culture.

"This old guy caught me and he give me a flogging and I went home bawling my head off," says Mr Atkinson, one of 12 Victorian Aboriginal elders who yesterday launched a new website on Aboriginal missions, featuring their stories.
At 72, Mr Atkinson is education officer at the Koorie Heritage Trust in King Street, which has created the Mission Voices website www.abc.net.au/missionvoices with the ABC and Film Victoria to explore the lives on missions also including Ebenezer, Lake Tyers, Coranderrk, Framlingham and Lake Condah.
The website uses historic and contemporary images, documentary footage and artwork, and examines the six communities by focusing on themes including Christianity, war, activism, work and wages, land rights, spirituality and the "stolen generations".
The AGE 4th Aug 04

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