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The speech honors Vincent Lingiari and the 1966 Wave Hill strike, then uses Pat’s childhood experience at Parap Camp to illuminate how assimilation policies shaped family life, food, education, and memory. 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Treaty. Truth.  \nBy  \nPat Anderson AO  \nChairperson, Lowitja Institute  \nFINAL  \nDarwin  \n16 August 2017  \nGood evening everyone,  \nI acknowledge and pay respects to the Larrakia people, traditional custodians of the land on which we are meeting tonight.  \nI want to thank Charles Darwin University for asking me to deliver this Lecture. This is huge honour for me. It’s always hard presenting in your home town.  \nI was feeling a bit anxious about that because you all know everything about me.  \nI would like to acknowledge Wendy Ludwick who I think put my name forward for this honour.  \nWe are here to honour the memory of Vincent Lingiari and his leadership in the 1966 Wave Hill strike.  \nI will return to that story, and to the place of the Gurindji in the contemporary struggle for the rights of Australia's First Peoples shortly.  \nBut first, I'd like to share another story with you, a personal story.  \nThis story is from the 1950s, a decade before the Wave Hill Walk Off, and is set at Parap Camp a few miles from here (in the suburb now called Stuart Park) , where I and my sisters grew up with our mum and dad.  \nFor those who don't know the history, Parap Camp was home to many Aboriginal and some Torres Strait Islander families in those harsh post-War years.  \nMany of those families had a Stolen Generations heritage, with the parents of Parap camp families having grown up in the nearby Kahlin Compound. Kids were rounded up from all over the Territory.  \nMy mother was one of those, taken as a young girl sometime in the 1930s by white men on horseback from her Alyawarre family north east of Alice Springs.  \nShe was brought here to the Compound, fifteen hundred kilometres away.  \nAfter growing up at Kahlin, she was sent to work as a young teenager on a farm on the other side of the Darwin harbour, near Belyuen.  \nLater, she met my dad, a Swedish merchant seaman who had jumped ship in Fremantle, and made his way to Darwin.  \nThey married and settled at Parap Camp.  \nMy story is from when I was about 9 or 10 years old, when I was in Grade 3 or 4 – like almost all children from Parap Camp, I and my sisters attended school without fail.  \nSchool attendance was non-negotiable in those days – we all just went.  \nEvery year the class would have a Christmas Party at the end of the final term, and the idea was that all the kids would bring food from home for the party.  \nI was excited because I knew my mum made the best sponge cakes ever: great high, fluffy things.  \nI pictured myself taking one of these cakes into school – I was a bit vain, and wanted to show off what a great cook mum was.  \nBut when I asked her to make the cake, she flatly refused.  \nNo matter what I said, how I nagged at her, she just said no.  \nFinally, in frustration, I just burst out: \"But why mum? Why won't you make oneof your cakes and let me take it to the school party?\".  \nShe hesitated for a moment.  \nAnd then she said quietly: \"I don't like white people eating my food\" .  \nI knew immediately from the way she said it that not only was this the end of the argument, but also that she was telling me something more.  \nI can still see her face and hear her voice.  \nI haven't forgotten this: although I didn't understand how at the time, it was clearly important.  \nAnd so I had to trudge off to my Christmas party with a packet of store bought biscuits, while all the other kids brought scones, cakes and biscuits baked by their mothers – none of which, I might add, were as good as what my mum could have made.  \nThis sounds like an ordinary domestic, family event.  \nAnd it is.  \nBut like so many stories that are part of every Aboriginal family in this country, there is a lot packed into this little scenario.  \nFor a start, how did my mum get to be so good a cook?  \nI see now that her skill with cooking was something she had learnt from the white women she worked for as domestic, unpaid labour.","cbCaii7trpIBPIVU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii7trpIBPIVU","pdf",340597,16,"English","# Our Hope for the Future: Voice, Treaty, Truth\n## Welcome, acknowledgment, and purpose\n## Vincent Lingiari and the Wave Hill strike\n## Parap Camp memories and assimilation impacts\n## Literacy, withheld skills, and ethical loneliness","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of Pat Anderson’s 17th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture?\",\"answer\":\"She honors Vincent Lingiari’s leadership in the 1966 Wave Hill strike and frames the future through Voice, Treaty, and Truth, connecting historical struggle with lived experience.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Pat Anderson use a childhood story about cake to explain broader history?\",\"answer\":\"She recounts being refused homemade sponge cake for a school party because her mother disliked white people eating her food, which she later connects to assimilation policies and withheld opportunities.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Pat Anderson highlight about assimilation and its effects on her mother?\",\"answer\":\"She explains that assimilation helped white employers teach domestic cooking skills while restricting other education, including literacy, to prevent distinct Aboriginal cultural development.\"},{\"question\":\"What concept does the speech connect to the experience of injustice not being acknowledged?\",\"answer\":\"It cites Jill Stauffer’s “ethical loneliness,” describing profound isolation that occurs when unjustly treated people are not heard or listened to after sharing their testimony.\"}]","17th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture - Our Hope for the Future: Voice, Treaty, Truth | PDF"]