TransTasman Conference on Australians and New Zealanders in Christian Missions, at Home and Abroad (2004)

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The 1st Biennial TransTasman Conference on Australians and New Zealanders in Christian Missions, at Home and Abroad was held at The Australian National University in Canberra between the 8th and the 10th October 2004, hosted by Division of Pacific and Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. The conference seeks to encourage academic research and writing on the contribution of Australians and New Zealanders to Missionary Enterprises in New Zealand, Australia, and overseas in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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"A Matter of Primary Importance": early missionary educational attempts at Ramahyuck (Victoria) and Poonindie (South Australia)
(2004-10) Barry, Amanda
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A Moravian Mission In Australia: Ebenezer Through Ernabella Eyes
(2004-10) Edwards, Bill
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Australian Influences on New Zealand's Emerging Protestant Missionary Movement, 1885-1922
(2004-10) Morrison, Hugh
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"Can these dry bones live?" Conversion and Worship on Aboriginal Missions and Protectorate Stations, 1830-1850
(2004-10) Mitchell, Jessie
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Five Barley Loaves: An icon for Australasian Baptist Missionary Work
(2004-10) Gooden, Rosalind
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Hussey Burgh Macartney Jr: Mission Enthusiast
(2004-10) Paproth, Darrell
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Nellie, Topsy and Annie: Australian Anglican Martyrs, Fujian Province, China, 1 August 1895
(2004-10) Welch, Ian
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Separate Spheres Or Shared Dominions?
(2004-10) Ross, Cathy
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The Australian Council of Churches' activity in Asia and its reflexive impact on Australian Christianity, 1950 - 1965
(2004-10) Lake, Meredith
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The Origins of Australian Protestant Missions: Evangelical Visions
(2004-10) Piggin, Stuart
Significant players in the settlement of Australia were evangelicals withan elaborate missionary vision and the motivation to seize opportunitiesto "gospelise" the world, including the Pacific. This paper locates theorigins of the Australian Protestant missionary movement within the visionwhich Jonathan Edwards had for Terra Australis and Hollandia Nova, thegrowing confidence eighteenth-century evangelicals had in the gospel asthe engine for the renovation of the world, and their understanding ofAustralia as a strategic base for missions to the Pacific.
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"Unpretending labours": Julia Farr and the Melanesian Mission
(2004-10) Crawford, Janet
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"We have grown to love her". The Aborigines Inland Mission, Aboriginal People and the NSW Aborigines Protection Board, 1905-1920
(2004-10) Brett, Christine
In this paper I trace the establishment of Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM), the Faith basis of itsmission and missionaries and its response to the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Boardbetween 1905 and 1920. I will argue that the AIM and its missionaries became advocates forAboriginal people and increasingly at odds with the Aborigines Protection Board as the latter movedto control the lives of Aboriginal people. After 1910 the Board urged minimal education forAboriginal people, training for domestic service and absorption into the white community to breedout Aboriginal heritage, the missionary solution was to provide marketable skills and a philosophyacceptable to the white community. This of course was Christianity. While this approach had scantregard for Aboriginal culture, AIM archives show that its missionaries provided Aboriginal peoplewith resources with which they could negotiate with the white community. They also acted asintermediaries between the Government and Aboriginal people. However the missionaries were nomatch for a ruthless Board. The principle architect of the Board's child removal policies, RobertDonaldson had a different agenda- the elimination of the race. Inevitably the missionaries lost thebattle. The continuation of the fight by Aboriginal people to recover their worth we now see, owesmuch to these missionaries who saw a great wrong and tried to do something to correct it.

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