GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH
AND EXHIBITION
Core Partner Organization
OUR STORY provides expanded insights into the way that Australia has evolved and continues to establish a contemporary multicultural society. It adds to the recognition of each prism of our kaleidoscope of peoples in our endeavour to create a more equally inclusive and shared society.
Mark Wang
Chief Executive Officer
The Museum of Chinese Australian History
Sponsorships
OUR STORY began with two years of research, documentation and analyses of the rich and complex interaction between descendants of two of the world’s oldest civilisations - an intersection overlooked in the dominant White Australian discourse on the history of outside contacts with First Nations Peoples..
Since the gold rush of the 1850s, a connection grew as the new Chinese arrivals and First Nations people came into close proximity, by both location and by social status in these colonial years across Australia.
Families of mixed Aboriginal and Chinese descent are now widespread across Australia. They recognise their shared heritage and with it, unfortunately, - a shared history of marginalisation by European Settlers in the 19th century.
Their personal accounts and memories form the basis of this research and an exhibition is being developed that will directly spring forth from these individuals and families. Hence, as their stories will be told first hand, the Exhibition is titled OUR STORY.
The content of the exhibition has been brought together from right across Australia with Zhou Xiaoping as the lead investigator and project manager. His long-standing friendships and connection with these people have been instrumental in gaining access to their past lives.
The research undertaken by a team of academic researchers nationwide, forms the largest body of work on this subject and will broaden the collective consciousness of who we are as a society.
This ground breaking research will lead to a unique exhibition that portrays a new branch of Australian history.