Talk:Athol Kennedy Chase

Chronology for expanding article
Bruceanthro (talk) 11:42, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 1940's: Athol Chase both went to Leichhardt Ward State School, Rockhampton
 * 1952-53: When Athol Chase first joined the Rockhamptom Pipe Band in 1952/3, they met under a fig tree at the old Livingstone Shire site just next to the northern end of the old bridge.  It had a tiny room  up on stilts where all the gear was kept.   Later they used a building opposite St Pauls Cathedral owned by Jimmy Lawrence of Lawrence motors, and then later, when Mr Gray (Secretary of the Agricultural Society) was President, they had the use of buildings in the Showgrounds. In those days they played at many country balls for a fee - Archer, Biloela, Baralaba, Bluff, and so on. These were major events each year and wthey usually went in a chartered rail motor to the more distant events, accompanied by Jaqueline Parker's dancers and their mothers. They usually played outside the pub on arrival and passed the hat around to get some extra funds. Dr Blackburn of Baralaba always paid us a fee to appear at the Baralaba Ball.  One one occasion in 1953 when wool prices made many rural millionaires, a Longreach grazier named Muller, chartered a DC3 to fly them out to Longreach at Easter for the races and a ball.  He also threw in 200 pounds, which was a lot money at that time.  They were heady days for the band,at a time when it was quite strong.. I bought my Hendersons from Jimmy Alexander whom I see listed in your website.  They were excellent pipes and I sold them to a young lad in Rockhampton after I married and was moving to Brisbane.  All I have now is my old practice chanter, loads of book music, and a blackwood chanter for my Henderson pipes which I bought new.  I see these days pipe chanters are all of a synthetic material.  I sometimes get the practice chanter out to amuse the grandkids. Most of my photos of the band were lost in the 1974 Brisbane flood see Rky Pipe Band History (2015, February, 27). Retrieved 27 Feb 2015 20:02:33, from https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20150227090233/http://rockhamptonpipeband.com/pages/bandhistory11.html
 * 19550000: He, Jim Scalon (sargeant at Coen) and Athol Chase had done nasho (National Service (compulsory military service)) together in the RAAF at Amberley in 1955see | After Consensus
 * 19570000: photo is taken circa 1957, of Bruce McLean with Athol behind, piping [bag pipes] in the haggis for the Caledonian Society at the RSL hall at the northern end of East St.
 * before 1967: commercial employment: cotton industry, Rockhampton see CV
 * 19670000: Athol commenced studies, BA, at University of Queensland
 * 19710000: Athol completed BA(First Class Hons in Anthropology) at University of Queensland, entitled The Australian Aborigines:  their place in evolutionary anthropology (Uni of Qld) for which he won University Medal (in Anthropology)  see CV
 * 19710000: Athol Chase did some anthropological research at Aurukun in 1971 before shifting his main attention to Lockhart on the east coast of the Peninsula.(see Sutton 4wheeldrive)
 * 19710000: Athol Chase who has carried out Ph.D. and other research at Lockhart since 1971 see Sutton in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
 * 19730000: "Mental man" and social evolutionary theory; in G.E. Kearney, P.R. De Lacey and G.R. Davidson (Eds). The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians, Sydney, Wiley.
 * 1973-1974: casual lecturer and tutor, University of Queensland
 * 19730923_19731217: Fild trip to Lockhart from Mura catalogue - Observes a revitalisation of traditional culture taking place among the various communities in Cape York; Okainta ceremonies were held which included the introduction of initiates Arrangements & procedures are described for the dance festival which was attended by several groups from within and also outside the area; summary of festival and predictions of a back to the land movement
 * 19740000: together with vonSturmer & John Richard from Mura- produced Sample of a field note book designed to assist ethnographic site recording
 * 19740000 .. Athol chase was the anthropological consultant for a Curtis Levy film made at Lockhart, around a dance festival featuring dancers from across north australia see
 * 19740000 In 1974 Robert Layton and Michel Lorblanchet, rock art specialists from England and France respectively, accompanied Athol Chase and Peter Sutton, and local advisors Johnny and Bob Flinders and Bill McGreen on a mapping trip - Bathurst Islands etc. see Sutton in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
 * 1975-1976: Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University (School of Australian Environmental Studies)
 * 1975-1978: Cape York Ecology Committee, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (see CV)
 * 19750701-19750711: from Mura- Athol Investigation of request by Aboriginal elders for assistance for a return visit to traditional territories along eastern Cape York; request for AIAS funds
 * 1976-1982: Lecturer Griffith University (School of Australian Environmental Studies) (see CV)
 * mid 1970's: IN THE MID-1970s, three of us were named in a state government memorandum, addressed to Paddy Killoran, as radicals whose influence on Aboriginal people needed to be curtailed The memo was quite inventive, though. It argued that Aboriginal site recorders should not be brought to Brisbane for training, because they might come under the pernicious sway of Athol Chase, John von Sturmer and Peter Sutton see After consensus
 * late 1970's: In the late 1970s, the Queensland Association of Professional Anthropologists and Archaeologists was formed, partly out of self-protection, partly to provide a platform for public comment. David Trigger, Jay Hall and others were active but Athol Chase did most of the television interviews, appearing with the moderator of the Uniting Church and the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane on more than one occasion. The issues were land rights, and justice for Queensland Aboriginal people. see | After Consensus
 * 19750000 I, Peter Sutton got to know Bruce better during team field work with Athol Chase, John von Sturmer and David Thompson as we mapped local peoples' sites and countries and dialects and personal memories south from Lockhart to Port Stewart along the Barrier Reef shores of the eastern Cape (Chase 1984).1 was there simply as a linguist, but this and previous joint work with anthropologists further south (Athol Chase, Bob Layton) had convinced me that in order. see Sutton in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
 * 1976-1977: In 1976 and 1977, with Athol Chase, John von Sturmer mapped part of the region north of Archer River to Norman River (with Sutton assisting) and along the Watson River. The latter was in response to a special request by Aurukun Community Council to AIAS during a time of conflict with the bauxite mining industry. see [4Wheeldrive| http://www.elpublishing.org/docs/6/01/LLS-Chapter-07-Sutton.pdf]
 * 19760515-16  from Mura, AIAS Ethnobotany Workshop, paper entitled Anthropology and botany : turning over a new leaf discusses theoretical issues involved in ethno-classification; examples drawn from Cape York; Aboriginal terms including Umpila terms for vegetation ranges; specific terms derived from other linguistic domains (e.g. kin terms, body parts, etc.)
 * 1977: In 1977 he also let Athol Chase know that the Special Branch had a file on him and was tapping his phone. Chase's vice-chancellor at Griffith University, John Willett, told him that he had defended him against Killoran-inspired complaints about his activities in Cape York see see | After Consensus
 * 197?0000: Chase's vice-chancellor at Griffith University, John Willett, told him that he had defended him against Killoran-inspired complaints about his activities in Cape York,
 * 19780420-21: Between Land and Sea: Aboriginal Coastal Groups Cape York Peninsula: in Northern Sector of the Great Barrier Reef. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Workshop Series No. 1.  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority: Townsville pp. 159-178 from Mura - Contact history; differences in tribes of the area; land and marine resources; mythology connected with reef relevance of Aboriginal culture to park
 * 19781019: Savour the texture of Aboriginal culture. form Mura - Response to C. Elliots hope for a truly Christian community in his paper A tough mission, and hope at Lockhart River. Church Scene, 10 Aug. 1978
 * 19790000: from Mura, at Victoria Museum old Men from Lockhart, Jimmy Doctor; Billy Claremont; Mick Omeenyo; Roy Larsen are identifying objects and people in the Donald Thomson photographic collection and discussing them with Athol Chase, Alan West and Peter Ucko.
 * 19790000: Anthropology and botany: turning over a new leaf; Papers in Australian linguistics No. 13: Contributions to Australian Linguistics, Canberra, R.S.O.P.S., A.N.U.
 * 19790300 from Mura - Senator Fred Chaney had a meeting with them March 1979 in Canberra with Athol Chase and Peter Ucko.
 * 19800000: Chase completed his PhD in Anthropology at University of Queensland, entitled Which way now? Tradition, continuity and change in a Queensland Aboriginal community
 * 19800000: PhD Thesis Which way now? : tradition, continuity and change in a North Queensland Aboriginal community - This thesis examines the role of tradition in the continuity of Aboriginal society at Lockhart River settlement in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Like other remote Aboriginal communities in Australia, Lockhart is the product of an historical process of alien contact, subsequent domination and missionization. Despite deliberate European attempts to change Aboriginal ways, Lockhart people today see themselves as the inheritors of a body of traditions handed down from pre-contact times. From these traditions, people maintain a distinctive identification with the northeastern Peninsula region. See
 * 1982-1994: Senior Lecturer Griffith University (School of Australian Environmental Studies) (see CV)
 * 19830000 : Peter Sutton, David Trigger, Jay Hall and Athol Chase, was organising in similar ways. In 1983 this small but committed group of anthropologists successfully incorporated the Queensland Association of Professional Anthropologists and Archaeologists (QAPAA) see 01 NcGrath
 * 19850000: Athol returned to the west coast in 1985 to collaborate in mapping the upper Love River and the western side of the lower middle Archer with David Martin, in a South Australian Museum project organised by myself see Sutton 4wdrive
 * 1985-1986: Commonwealth Dept Aboriginal Affairs (North Queensland Land Council): Shelburne Bay silica mining see CV - this is Mick Miller NQLC, also involving Don Henry, ultimately ending in a consent determination
 * 19860000: Wood, Ray & Chase, Athol Kennedy & North Queensland Land Council (1986). A report on anthropological investigations into Wuthathi Aboriginal Associations with the Shelburne Bay - Cape Grenville areas of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, incorporating Wuthathi opinion and recommendations to the Commonwealth government and anthropological recommendations.
 * 1987-1988: Wuthathi Council - Cape York Space Base & in 1988 for Cape York Space Agency - Aboriginal consultations - see CV
 * 1987-1990: Lockhart River Community Council: Farndale development project, Lloyd Bay (see CV)
 * 1989-1991: Advisory Committee to Minister of Environment Conservation: Cultural Resources Act (Qld) see CV - note in the 1970's regarded as potential enemies of the state, by late 1980's as Aboriginal land act is being negotiated, he an advisor to the Minister on Cultural Resources Act
 * 19900000: Commission of Inquiry into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody- Lockhart Cell deaths
 * 1990-1992: Tharpuntoo Aboriginal Legal Service: development and land use in Cape York see CV
 * 1992-1994: Tharpuntoo Aboriginal Legal Service: Birthday Mountain Land Claim (Aboriginal Land Act) see CV
 * 19940000: Chase, A.K. and J. Chase, Cape York Land Council, Cairns, 1994.Birthday Mountain Land Claim: Claim Book see Smith_LandRightsNewa
 * 1995-2001: Associate Professor Griffith University (School of Australian Environmental Studies) (see CV)
 * 19980000: Mungkan, Ayapathu and Kaanju Peoples' Land Claims to Mungkan Kaanju National Park and Lochinvar USL
 * 20010000: retired from Griffith University
 * 20200200: dedication of the Lockart cultural database via which Athol Chase repatriated so much of his works to the Lockhart people (see Waanta Febraruary 2020 pg 16-17)
 * 20201126: Died 26th November at Wesley Hospital after a short illness, aged 84. Athol was the much-loved husband of Lesley, father of James and Matt and father-in-law of Emily and Margot, grandfather of Ada, Daniel, Max and Benji, and cousin of Coral. The cremation will be held privately.