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Remembering Mona Mona

October 2, 2021 , 4.00 PM 5.15 PM

Free

Book launch explores history of church’s indigenous “mission in rainforest”

Celebrate the Zoom launch of Dr Brad Watson’s book Remembering Mona Mona: The Mission in the Rainforest.

Mona Mona is a former Seventh-day Adventist Church institution for indigenous Australians in the Cairns hinterland but also part of a government system that sought to regulate and control most aspects of the lives of Australia’s First Peoples in that era. Based on interviews, historical records and research, Remembering Mona Mona explores the diverse experiences of Mona Mona’s residents, as well as the intent and struggles of the missionaries, who were usually well-intentioned, chronically under-resourced, and very much a product of their times and belief.

Presented by Signs Publishing, Avondale Academic Press and Sydney Adventist Forum.

Featuring: Contributors Professor Daniel Reynaud and Lynnette Lounsbury; historian Dr Thom Blake, and; a panel discussion between Brad, Thom and Lynelda Tippo, the former director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ministries for the church’s North New South Wales Conference. Dr Howard Fisher will also present a collection of stamps illustrating the changing portrayal of indigenous Australians.

Signs and Sydney Adventist Forum are offering the book at a $10 discount for those attending the launch. Get your discount code during the launch and use it at www.adventistbookcentre.com.au.

Register your interest in attending to receive the Zoom link.

Organiser

Avondale University

(02) 4980 2222

http://www.avondale.edu.au