The Chair of Kosciuszko Heritage, Ernestyna Skurjat-Kozek, and her husband and committee member Andrzej Kozek have travelled to Jindabybe to take part in NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) celebrations. The trip was an excellent opportunity to strengthen ties with the Ngarigo Aboriginal communities in the Snowy Mountains region.…
Month: September 2012
The Strzelecki biography corrigenda story
In an interview given for SBS Radio, Witold Lukasiak recounted the efforts of Kosciuszko Heritage’s committee members to convince the Australian Dictionary of Biography to amend errors in the biographical entry of Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki.
After half a year’s worth of negotiations, the Dictionary has agreed to make the changes in its online version.…