Moved by Councillor Davis, seconded by
Councillor Scott -
It is resolved that:
(A) Council note
the 13 March 2023 Resolution of Council - Diversifying City of Sydney Art
Projects and that this notice of motion is a continuum in support of said
resolution;
(B) Council
affirm that action on this motion provides opportunities to support and
increase equality of gender for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)
and Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) trailblazers within the public
realm, including but not limited to:
(i)
Dr Faith Bandler née Ida Lessing Faith Mussing
AO AC MBE (27 September 1918-13 February 2015), an Australian civil rights
activist born to a South Sea Islander Slave Blackbirded to Australia from
Ambrym Island, Vanuatu and her mother was of Scottish-Indian heritage, whose
achievements are documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Bandler and https://pib.anu.edu.au/biography/bandler-ida-lessing-faith-15982. Nelson
Mandela, Nobel Peace prize winner and former President of South Africa,
presented Faith on behalf of the Sydney Peace Foundation, with a Meritorious
Award in Honour and Gratitude for a Life of Courageous Advocacy for Justice and
for Indigenous People, for Human Rights, for Love and Reconciliation;
(ii)
Dr Ernestine Bonita Mabo (nee Neehow) AO (c1943-26
November 2018), a Malanbarra Clan women from Palm Island and a descendant
of Australia’s Blackbird trade from Tanna Island in Vanuatu who was recognised
as an Officer of the Order of Australia on Australia
Day 2013 and fondly known as the ‘Matriarch’ or ‘Mother’ of native title
for the Mabo v Queensland challenge by her husband Eddie Koiki Mabo on the
notion of 'Terra Nullius,' that Australia was 'land belonging to no one', in
the High Court of Australia, with her achievements documented at https://jcu.pressbooks.pub/eddiekoikimabotimeline/chapter/the-mother-of-native-title/; and
(iii)
Ms Shireen Fern Joy Malamoo, born on 26 March 1936,
an Aboriginal/Kanak woman of the Juru Clan and Blackbirded descendant of Tongoa
Island in Vanuatu from Plantation Creek historically known as a town camp of
the Burdekin, Townsville far north Queensland, a Commissioner of the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission (1991-1993) and NSW Parole Board member
(1994-2003) whose other achievements are documented at ASSIPJ
Board - original - Australian South Sea Islanders - Port Jackson and
Malamoo, Shireen - Woman - The Australian Women's
Register (womenaustralia.info); and
(C) the Chief
Executive Officer, working with the Public Art Advisory Panel and relevant
stakeholders, be requested to investigate a process for commemorating
pioneering CALD (Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse) and CARM (Culturally and Racially Marginalised) trailblazers in public
art with this process to include:
(i)
consultation with trailblazers’ families and
consideration of their culturally specific community and cultural practices and
political relevance; and
(ii)
taking into account the 11 April 2022 Resolution of Council - City of Sydney
Recognition of and Support for Australian South Sea Islanders and the 13 March
2023 Resolution of Council - Diversifying City of Sydney Art Projects.
Carried unanimously.
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