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By Melinda Hinkson, Jeremy Beckett
The paintings of well known Australian anthropologist WEH Stanner is given ancient and analytical context during this selection of contributions from a few of Australia’s prime lecturers within the box of Aboriginal stories. proficient by way of pioneers of anthropology, together with Bronislaw Malinowski, Stanner undertook paintings in Australia, Africa, and the Pacific, and helped to notify public understandings of Aboriginal ideals and faith, in addition to federal coverage in the direction of them. Demonstrating the ongoing relevance of his paintings in gentle of present debates on Aboriginal affairs, this exam is a reminder of the numerous impression Stanner had not just on social technology yet at the whole global.
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The prime minister’s committee on national morale At the end ofâ•› June 1942 Stanner was appointed to the Prime Minister’s Committee on National Morale chaired by Alfred A Conlon. By this time he was a commissioned officer, Major Stanner, commanding officer of the NAOU. Conlon prepared an interim report on the problem of civilian morale for submission to the prime minister, John Curtin (NAA A1608/1, AK 29/1/2, 4 April 1942). Stanner no doubt was provided with a copy in his capacity as adviser to the Minister for the Army, Frank Forde.
There was no love lost between Conlon and his ‘acerbic assistant’ (Pybus 1999, p. 49), and once Stanner was demobbed he never let an opportunity go without criticising the actions and decisions of ‘the boys’ as they called themselves. The dislike and distrust was mutual. Kerr — the other assistant director of DORCA, and in many ways Conlon’s right-hand man — described Stanner as having ‘an ego of terrific size which gets mixed up with the objective problem’ (KIP, 19 June 1945). Hence, Stanner’s appointment can be seen as a strategic move to delimit the possible criticism of DORCA’s plans for a post-war Papua and New Guinea as well as the various colonies in the south-west Pacific.
Stanner’s apparent support of a pre-war British colonial system was anathema to the directorate (Hasluck 1980, passim). Commenting on Lucy Mair and her appointment to DORCA, Stanner noted that she was part of a small, self-interested coterie at the LSE which included Audrey Richards ‘and one or two others with whose views I have disagreed’. He believed he could ‘count on Radcliffe-Brown and EvansPritchard; and I think also…Firth’ for support. He condemned ‘the amount of outright nepotism, and the extraordinary coincidence that each burst of what purports to be zeal for liberalism and native rights always ends up the same way — higher salaries, expense accounts, positions of power, wider influence for one or other [of the group] — all these [things] sickened me’ (EP 197/4/2/573, 25 October 1948).