Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia

Abstract

present to the nation.The museum's birth was delayed until after the establishment of the National Library of Australia (1960) and the National Gallery of Australia (1982) and for a while it appeared likely to be stillborn.While the idea of a national museum may lurk inevitably behind the idea of a national capital, as one of the symbols of nationhood, in Australia's case the gestation period was long and the birth late.The delay has had a significant impact on the final form of the museum since it finally came into being at a moment when Indigenous Australians began once again to occupy a central space in Australian political and cultural life.*The 1960s had seen the significant emergence of Indigenous Australians into the national political arena.The 1960s and 1970s saw the development of the campaign for land rights in the north of Australia, the demand for equal wages in the cattle industry, the end of segregation in New South Wales country towns and a burgeoning civil rights movement that set much of the national political agenda.At the same time Aboriginal culture, which had been rendered almost invisible by the evolutionary lens through which it was seen, began to make an increasing impact on Australia's cultural life.The place of Aborigines in the Australian nation and the redressing of their disadvantage became major issues that presented no easy solution.Australian governments in the last quarter

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