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  10. Feb 2018
    1. We should remember too that footnotes have always been at the heart of an ethical pact. The Australian historian Tom Griffiths has described footnotes as ‘honest expressions of vulnerability’ — ‘generous signposts to anyone who wants to retrace the path and test the insights’. This ‘professional paraphernalia’ has, he argues, grown out of a series of ethical questions: To whom are we responsible – to the people in our stories, to our sources, to our informants, to our readers and audiences, to the integrity of the past itself? How do we pay our respects, allow for dissent, accommodate complexity, distinguish between our voice and those of our characters?1 Such questions remain crucial as we consider the relationship between cultural collections and their online users. If we expect people to erect ‘generous signposts’ we have to make our stuff easy to find and share. If we want them to consider their responsibility to the past we should focus on providing trust, confidence, and support, not permission.

      Tom Griffiths on footnotes.

  11. Dec 2017
    1. Mr Comey, who had been investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, was fired by Mr Trump in May.

      This is my quote.

  12. Nov 2017
    1. it would be a monstrous thing, an unheard of piece of savagery on our part, to treat the aboriginals, whose land we were occupying, in such a manner as to deprive them absolutely of any right to vote in their own country, simply on the ground of their colour, and because they were aboriginals.

      Quoted in Clare Wright, 'The Right Side of the Rainbow', Meanjin, 22 November 2017, <https://hyp.is/0BwztM98EeexazOd0mA4FA/meanjin.com.au/blog/the-right-side-of-the-rainbow/>.

    2. Surely it is absolutely repugnant to the greater number of the people of the Commonwealth that an aboriginal man, or aboriginal lubra or gin - a horrible, degraded, dirty creature - should have the same rights, simply by virtue of being 21 years of age, that we have, after some debate to-day, decided to give to our wives and daughters

      Quoted in Clare Wright, 'The Right Side of the Rainbow', Meanjin, 22 November 2017, <https://hyp.is/pVxnYM99EeeNJENDWXmh-g/meanjin.com.au/blog/the-right-side-of-the-rainbow/>.

    1. Surely it is absolutely repugnant to the greater number of the people of the Commonwealth that an Aboriginal man, or Aboriginal lubra or gin—a horrible, degraded, dirty creature—should have the same rights, simply by virtue of being 21 years of age, that we have, after some debate to-day, decided to give to our wives and daughters.

      Senator Matheson, Australia, Senate, Debates, 10 April 1902, viewed 22 October 2017, <https://hyp.is/Y3zZ7M99EeepyY-kH2U1RQ/historichansard.net/senate/1902/19020410_senate_1_9/>.

    2. It would be a monstrous thing, an unheard of piece of savagery on our part, to treat the Aboriginals, whose land we were occupying, in such a manner as to deprive them absolutely of any right to vote in their own country, simply on the ground of their colour and because they were Aboriginals.

      Senatory O'Connor, Australia, Senate, Debates, 10 April 1902, viewed 22 October 2017, <https://hyp.is/hRT-Rs98EeegrR-7WDgPXw/historichansard.net/senate/1902/19020410_senate_1_9/>.

  13. Jul 2017
    1. If every Chinaman who left Australia returned with a wife, we should soon have a large number of Chinese living here.

      Mention of Chinese wives

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