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June 2018 Charles Town Maroon International Conference Magazine them bring their services to the broader community. She conducted research and produced a report on Aboriginal traditional healing practices. This explored how ngangkari healers work alongside doctors and medical staff in community clinics, and often visit Adelaide to attend to Indigenous hospital patients. Dr Panzironi says that ngangkari accept the benefits of both Western and traditional methods when a person is ill. After treating a person spiritually and psychologically, the ngangkari might treat the person’s physical problems as well, but will often recommend they also see a Western doctor. But the ngangkari aren’t recognised in the Australian health system. While other health professionals can expect to be paid, they cannot. There is no category for “ngungkari services” in government payments for health care as well as in the private health sector. And Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has not listed ngangkari medications as either safe or beneficial. What ngangkari seek is the right to practise in the same way as any other paramedical service in the Australian system. While various societies around the world recognise the value of healers who are culturally rather than scientifically based, Australia is lagging behind. Dr Victoria Grieves is Warraimaay from the midnorth coast of NSW, Australia. ARC Indigenous Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, she works in interdisciplinary ways to progress Indigenous knowledge production in the academy. Her research interests also include the history of the Aboriginal family, the impacts of race thinking on identity and wellbeing and the children born of war. She also edits the Maroon Magazine. 21
Charles Town Maroon International Conference Magazine June 2018 DESPATCHES FROM DISPLACEMENT: Citizen Media in Syria Omid Tofighian, American University in Cairo/University of Sydney Syrian child crossing under a fence to reach a school where clothes are distributed for free. Zaatari Camp, Northern Jordan - 12/01/2015 Photographer: Tamer Turkman • Email: info@laisart.com Citizen despatches from sites of terror, aggression and displacement take many creative forms and utilise art practices, galleries, public spaces, the internet and social media. In 2017 producer and filmmaker Maher Jamous curated a photography exhibition at the University of Sydney as part of the event Trapped In/Pushed Out: Border Politics in the US and Australia. Jamous fled Syria in 2012 but continues to work with colleagues in his homeland and those displaced in neighbouring countries.The show was part of a program organised by the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC) and featured Australian and international speakers. The exhibit showcased 30 images by 20 photographers from among Maher’s network. These are testament to the creative forms of resistance, community vitality, and intellectual vision of Syrian people who are trapped by campaigns of state oppression in the form of war on civilians -and also those pushed out, displaced and exiled. A significant number of images were from the southwestern Syrian region of Ghouta which has been experiencing frequent shelling, bombing and ground attacks. Images and commentary about Trapped In/Pushed Out circulated on social media with an enthusiastic response from Syrian people in different parts of the world. With many artists originating from Ghouta it was not surprising to see the sense of pride and empowerment felt by locals hailing from the area. 22
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