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Tribal Fires - Dumbartung

Robert Eggington

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Tribal Fires is a podcast that will tell the stories of the Dumbartung Aboriginal corporations' 35-year history of working in the Bibbulmun Nyoongah community in the South West of Australia. These stories will tell of the cultural initiatives, interviews, and the political struggles that has challenged the survival of the organisation by attempted Government strategies to adversely attempt to cease the truth-telling and cultural empowerment of this crucial Aboriginal organisation.
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This episode of Tribal Fires called Apprehended, reflects youth detention and juvenile social justice issues facing many Aboriginal peoples. This story is based on the lived experience of Robert Eggington, the creator of Tribal Fires and his fight to clear his son (Bobbo Eggington R.I.P.) from false police charges in Western Australia. This story a…
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This episode of Tribal Fires titled ‘Ostracised’ is a reflection of Dumbartung’s history on the old Clontarf orphanage site in Manning, Western Australia. It is a tribute to the orphans, some of which I had the honour of meeting and hearing their personal stories of struggle to survive. The episode also tells of the political ostricisation of Dumba…
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This episode of Tribal Fires is a respected tribute story to three close advocates for the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation. John Pilger; Journalist, author & film maker. Irene Cunningham; Environmental historian, author John Pell; Community servant, Elder Since the beginning of Dumbartung these three amazing human beings have given their time, pa…
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This Podcast 'Powder', is a cry-out to our young people to be consciously aware of the scourge and devastation that powdered drugs such as Methamphetamine and Heroin has on our culture, families and communities. This story is told through the lens of a lived experience, working in our communities over a 44 year period and seeing first hand the suff…
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This Podcast ‘Pearl Shell’ is a tribute to the Bardi Elders of the One Arm Point Community in the North West Kimberley region of Western Australia. It tells of the times that I shared and the knowledge gained from many years of travelling and exchanging ancient stories and customs. The connection and the knowledge gleaned is still a guiding light t…
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This video podcast titled Wall of Shame - Nations go to war, tells the story of the plundering and pillaging of cultural objects during the colonisation period of Indigenous lands. We also discuss Dumbartungs wall of shame which has examples of cultural exploitation in varying forms. We also cover issues of racism that challenges our young generati…
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This story titled ‘Vengeance’ looks back over 3 important decades of change and advancement for Aboriginal people. The 1970s, 80s and 90s reflects a time when self-determination and funding resources were extremely restrictive and Aboriginal people faced harsh government laws and policies. These policies kept Aboriginal people oppressed and exclude…
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During the last 2 decades Dumbartung has been approached by the state Lotterywest commission to offer their support to fund a Cultural truth telling centre. During these meetings Dumbartung has been encouraged to believe that the funding was an obligation of trust by the Western Australian government. After being awarded a significant assessment aw…
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This important episode of Tribal Fires merged from meeting Irish songwriters, poets story collectors and actors in Perth, Western Australia while they were in town doing their own cultural performances. Two important Nyoongah Elders brought them into Dumbartung to meet with myself and Selina for a day of cultural sharing. This podcast titled Irish …
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In 2017 Dumbartung toured Capetown, South Africa via the Savanna. We met officially with a number of internationally known organisations and institutions, including; The District 6 museum, Archbishop Tutu Truth centre, The king of the Khoisan nation and a tour of Robben island prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and wrote his famous autobiog…
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In 2011 the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government) meeting was held in Perth, Western Australia. The Queen of England visited for the occasion. During her trip she opened the newly constructed Clontarf college boarding house. Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation is also situated on the same site. During the lead up to the visit, Dumbartung was visit…
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This episode of Tribal fires, titled ‘On The Edge’ discusses the political and cultural challenges facing the worlds Indigenous peoples, including refugees and those suffering dispossession. This episode is a special tribute to encourage all young people of the world to unite and engage in activism in order to transform the current threats facing o…
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This episode is a tribute to all of our people who survived, following their lives as Stolen Generation children. We also give a tribute to their great artistic creativity, which was constantly exploited by mainstream society in return for menial rewards such as a hamburger for a masterpiece painting. This episode is extremely important for our you…
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This episode tells the story of my experience in 1980 travelling from Broome to the Noonkanbah protests against the mining giant AMAX, drilling for oil on the sacred site of the Goanna Dreaming. The story covers the history of Dumbartungs activism in the community regarding protests and rallies for Aboriginal human and cultural rights. This include…
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The episode is a discussion regarding cultural appropriation, Identity Theft, and Aboriginal social issues. It is a discussion represented by the Director of Tribal Fires Mr. Robert Eggington and the retired Anthropologist of the University of Western Australia Berndt Museum Professor John Stanton. This episode is important to understand how our cu…
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This podcast is a story about traveling to Rio De Janeiro in 1988 to represent our people as a member of the National body S.N.A.I.I.C IN Brazil. It’s a three-part story about losing and then finding my didgeridoo, and then being invited after retrieving the object to meet with the great Train Robber Ronald Biggs who was hiding out in Brazil. Life …
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Warning this episode has a high content of racial vilification. During the early 1990’s I was appointed as the spokesperson for the newly developed Aboriginal Visitors scheme. This scheme was one of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody. The story tells of an incident whilst I was visiting a young Aborigina…
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This episode of Tribal Fires is when Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash visited the Dumbartung Aboriginal corporation in 1995. This story is extremely important as much was shared during these visits and both these artists are respected worldwide as creators that voiced the message of a generation. It was a great privilege to have both these singer songwrit…
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During 1995 the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation coordinated a world-wide campaign against an American woman ‘’New Age Author’’ named Marlo Morgan who wrote and published a book titled ‘’Mutant Message Downunder’’. This campaign was an extensive and effective process that resulted in Dumbartung unifying the Aboriginal voice across Australia and fr…
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This episode is about the early life of Robert Eggington the Director of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation. It tells of the story of his younger years , the work he came to do in the coalface of the Perth Aboriginal community, and the interview for the position at Dumbartung and concludes with the story of how he founded and created the most ma…
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