Profile manager: Kirstin Lucas[send private message] Professor, journalist and beloved Australian icon, Professor Stan Grant Jnr has recently added a new role as Vice Chancellor's Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University. Tut! (p.182), This legislation also enabled the Aboriginal Protection Board to remove his great aunt Eunice from her parents, and place her in the Cootamundra Girls Home. We were doing a whole lot of other things: we got married, a year later Jessie was born, I wrote a book [The Tears of Strangers] and we moved to Hong Kong. (p.273) When Stan fell in love with Tracey, he felt deeply conflicted about leaving his children. In 2017, Stan Grant joined the ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs and fill-in host of nightly current affairs programme 7.30. Grant turned his attention to the push by prime minister Anthony Albanese to introduce an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Family Trees. He cites as pervasive racism frequent discouragement and condescension from insensitive whites, including teachers, schoolyard bullying, slow or refused service in shops and restaurants, whites hesitating to take an empty bus seat next to a dark face, the choking fear that can easily arise in my people when we see that blue light This space between us (and whites) we dont talk about. Both black and white too often probe light-skinned identity. He looks tall and muscular with a thick walrus moustache. Stan Grant is the ABC's international affairs analyst, and vice-chancellor's chair of . The AFL sparked backlash after announcing it would not observe a minute of silence for The Queen's death during the AFLW Indigenous Round out of sensitivity. Indigenous Channel 10 newsreader Narelda Jacobs called on Britain to apologise for its colonisation of First Nations. Stan Grant is presenter of Q+A on Mondays at 9.35pm and the ABC's international affairs analyst. LTD. where I have been working since July 2021. (p.281), Stan met Barbara as an adult, by which time she was crippled by multiple sclerosis. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. 03:53 GMT 18 Sep 2022. They lived in the boat shed. In it, he writes The judges opinions make fascinating and inspiring reading. | ABC News (Australia) When I was young I had a poster on my wall of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two black athletes with their black gloved fists raised in defiance. He was barred from the mission a common occurrence and separated from his wife and baby. He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity. Stan Grant was born on 30 September, 1963 in Griffith, Australia, is an Australian television presenter. I didn't want to interfere in his personal life; I let him deal with that; it wasn't my place. A family memoir charting the political and social changes of Aborigines over the past 40 years. By using BiJog.com you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Grants book is a good start, but only a start to a better discussion of indigenous life as, he says, a constellation of groups, not as he also says, dominated by Eric Jolliffes Witchetty cartoons. And they had lots of kids and kept increasing in number and passing on their Aboriginal identity. My search for Frank Foster began at Circular Quay on Sydney's famous harbour. He lived a long life. He worked for Reporting Live from 2013 to 2016. , updated Grant says he doesn't want to interrogate whether Pascoe is Indigenous or not. PUBLICATION: Stan Grant, Tears of Strangers: A Family Memoir, Sydney: Harper Collins, 2004 SEX: Male BIRTH DATE: 30 September 1963 BIRTH PLACE: Griffith, NSW FIRST LANGUAGE: English SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES: Gunnedah Hill: an Aboriginal camp on the outskirts of Coonabarabran, when Stan's mother grew up. And Stan is always reading; he's a huge consumer of books and foreign newspapers. The most Grant families were found in USA in 1880. He felt uncomfortable in this role, because his elevated circumstances separated him from the people he was supposed to help. In mid-March, nine weeks before the 2019 Australian federal election, Grant was asked by then Prime Minister Scott Morrison to a meeting at Kirribilli House. A powerful speech by prominent Australian journalist Stan Grant on his country's record on indigenous rights has been viewed more than 1 million times in 3 days. Our sorry business is without end - ABC News, Britain used to rule a quarter of the world. As the title suggests, it aspires to be talking to this country about Aboriginality, but is a word-play also on his home country in the Riverina district of New South Wales where his boyhood had little in common with the full descent communities of the remote outback that get all the publicity. Things improved when they moved into a Housing Commission house and settled in Griffith, and then again moved into a better house in Canberra. They had 2 children: Martin Grantand one other child. Stan Grant begins his search at Circular Quay. The Y-DNA markers are specific to men only and are passed virtually unchanged from father to son for generations. (p.111), When he was in his early twenties, Bill eloped with a white girl named Margaret Brien, who was only thirteen at the time. (pp.20, 12) He had two daughters with a white woman named Barbara, one of whom died as a baby. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Stan Ward Grant, please visit . In 2018 Grant started hosting a flagship national night current affairs programme, Matter of Fact, on the ABC News TV Channel and ABC News Radio. He was a man remembered as the "school teacher". Grant won the Logie Award for Most Popular Current Affairs Programme in 1994 as host of the Seven Network current affairs programme Real Life. . (p.19), Stan senior sobered up somewhat after leaving Redfern and marrying Betty. We talk about everything, especially world politics. Tara did not grow up on Wiradjuri country and her novel reads like an attempt to be seen, to locate herself on Wiradjuri land, in Wiradjuri story and Wiradjuri language. The most hurtful things I saw written were definitely about Tracey "Holmes Wrecker" and that sort of nonsense. Stan recalls the experiences of the early white colonists west of the Blue Mountains, and the missionaries that followed them. . Based in CNNs new Abu Dhabi news-gathering and production center, Grant covered stories from both the UAE and the surrounding region and hosted the programme Prism. Stan Grant, a Wiradjuri elder, at his home in Narrandera, Australia. The La Perouse community has the original death certificate which lists him only as "Frank Foster Aboriginal". Stans grandparents raised Eunices younger daughter, Elaine. (p.231) The next night he and his cameraman were harassed by a group of young Catholics who had been brutally beaten by the police. Stan Grant, journalist, son of Stan Grant Sr Stan Grant Sr, a Wiradjuri elder and linguist [20] Anita Heiss contemporary novelist Kate Howarth author Brendan "Boon" Oldfield, former Boomanulla coach Faye McMillan, academic Kerry Reed-Gilbert, poet, author and elder His divorce was a well-publicized marriage break-up in 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympic Games, resulting from his starting a relationship with fellow TV personality Tracey Holmes. Hiram Ulysses Grant, Sr. (1822 - geni family tree. As a television personality, Stan was encouraged to act as a role model for Aboriginal people in prisons, schools, and depressed communities. Stan Grant wrote, and features in, the full-length documentary film The Australian Dream, released in 2019, the title of which echoes that of his address at the IQ2 debate. In 2014 he started hosting Sky News Australias Reporting Live with Stan Grant at 6 pm, a nightly news programme reporting on the serious news stories of the day, and in April of that year he hosted Crimes that Shook Australia, a six-part television drama series broadcast on Foxtel. Also find all Bollywood Movie Information related to release date, Reviews, Web Series Information and celebrities, gossips, and entertainment news. His autobiography, Talking to My Country, is important as a brightly written, lucid account of mixed-race lifeif we can use that useful but unloved term. Beloved husband of Bonita (Bonnie) Grant (nee Applegate). She had to apply to the Aboriginal Welfare Board to live with her partner, a full-blooded Aboriginal man, and died giving birth to her sixth child. Ulysses S. Grant genealogy dates back to 1630 when Matthew . We were overseas for 14 years the Middle East, Hong Kong and China and Stan was off all the time working with CNN. It began with John Grant, an Irish convict who arrived in 1810 and in time became a well-to-do grazier near Canowindra. (p.273) Stan also claims that he and Karla married too young, and that they had become different people with age. Tara mentions my family in The Yield and our family trees wind around each other. Jody: I thought a race to the bottom was a homosexual trope. Stan may well be a really nice bloke, but like many with some Aboriginal ancestry he cant help pulling the victim card out when clearly he is not entitled to do so. He spent several years as a news presenter on the Australian Macquarie Radio Network, Seven, SBS, along with a long-term stint at CNN International as a Senior International Correspondent in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Beijing, before starting with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He argued that the Australian Dream was based upon racism, mentioning his ancestors and others who were forced into institutions and unpaid work. About the Book. I get the strong feeling this Makarrata stuff is going to be a bit of a fiddle, but we are going to have to sit through the bullshit, just as we do when some part white Aboriginal intones endlessly a Welcome to Country thingamebob about how the Adelaide Oval is the land of some tribe, sorry, Nation, the name of which escaped me thirty seconds after being mentioned. Stan enjoying going to Sunday school as a child. Mr. Grant was an author of "A New Wiradjuri Dictionary," after years of advocating to preserve the Wiradjuri language.. In 1840 there were 283 Grant families living in New York. Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Despite this, Ivy and Keith still spent some time together every year. As part of the debate, Stan Grant's words were powerful. He is the only child of his parents. He won numerous awards including Peabody Award, DuPont Award, Asian TV Award, and Walkley Award. He was married to his first wife Karla Grant with whom he had three children. Stan Grant is an Australian journalist, radio and tv presenter, writer, and lecturer. Yes, Prime Minister. Yes, my comment can have more than one meaning! He later moved to ABC TV situated in Canberra as the Federal Political Correspondent and then New South Wales State as political correspondent. Stan Grant had three children Dylan, Lowanna, and John from his first wife. Ms Thorpe first wants a treaty with First Nations people and believes a referendum to change the constitution is a waste of time. 'Living homeless in a land that had been stolen from them in the name of the Crown.'. Later he started working again with the network in the year 2009 and is at present reporting from the Beijing quarters of the network. (p.32) Stan believes that Betty loved his father deeply, and this is why she always took him back. A record of your family with you as a parent, containing recollections of your children and your other descendants. His death was recorded in the newspapers of the time and an inquest called. (p.16), Only later in life, after meeting his half sister Deb, did Stan understand his fathers behaviour as a response to harsh treatment by the authorities. Seriously, Coombs and various Aboriginal activists looked across the Tasman Sea and saw the higher social standing of the Maori. This year, I have found a missing part of my family tree a man who connects me directly to that time of first contact, when white met black on the shores of Botany Bay. Because here is someone who is not wrecking a home; here is someone who is making a home. Seriously, a lot of people don't want to hear this, but if Stan was a white man I doubt we'd have been faced with the same situation. Most seemed to see themselves as the inheritors of the old rather than the new people. Kon Hai Alakh Pandey aka Physics Wallah Wife Shivani Dubey? They came from the heart and they were passionate. Later he was moved on to another mission at Warrangesda on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River. Clearly Keith Windshuttle would not fit their criteria, so how do we set about having this better discussion of Aboriginal life if the very people who can make head or tail of it all are considered both racist and beyond the pale (viz, where the wild, uncouth Irish live: beyond the Pale). 'I'm sure I am not alone amongst Indigenous people wrestling with swirling emotions.'. Until recent decades some lived at least part of the time on government-supported reservesoften colloquially known as missionsthough these were originally only intended for the full-descent people, who were thought, as early death and small families rapidly depleted their numbers, to be dying out. Please try again later. I suspect he has a huge ego and simply wanted to blame something and Aboriginality is the easy pick, despite the fact he is so minimally Aboriginal he is not in the least Indigenous in any real sense. He refers to his lack of confidence when young and the low aim of many indigenous people, but these are common characteristics also of white country kids from down the socio-economic pecking order. To find him I have been told to go the community of La Perouse in south-eastern Sydney on the headland of Botany Bay. Of course, when the British arrived there were people already here. There's nothing about her that really annoys me. He was an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. We stayed in touch, then in a few months it became obvious that we were attracted to each other. Grant said he was 'wrestling with swirling emotions' wanting to speak up on Aboriginal issues but being told it was not an appropriate time. There are no other details of his age, birthplace or family. An ancestral family history with a chapter for the couple you start with and additional chapters for each descendant family. But they kept a strong sense of Aboriginality. (p.220), Bob eventually gave up alcohol, opened a healing clinic, and co-ordinated an Aboriginal dance group. Stan believes that the notion of Indigenous culture that underpins modern Aboriginal nationalism had been transformed and commodified. He returned to Australia in the year 2013 leaving CNN to serve as the International Editor at Sky News Australia. Please add. However, in October 2018 Grant was appointed Professor of Global Affairs at Griffith University. Stan Grant Family & Parents. Grant started his broadcasting career at Macquarie Radio Network. The interesting thing to him, he says, is the construction of the "Pascoe identity". but this pugnacious over the top young woman introduced me to all her friends, family, etc, (even . By this time, the principal at Griffith High had already asked Stan to leave school. What happened? Because of their status as televisions personalities, Stans new relationship with Tracey attracted a great deal of media attention. Your Pop spent a lot of years just surviving. (p.278), Secondly, Tracey was a white woman, and Stan had always mistrusted Aboriginal men who took white partners. (p.61). Ans. He has also reported on natural calamities like the 2004 Tsunami in South East Asian region and the earthquake in Pakistan. She was hurt. Grant shared family's . Stan Grant is a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man. While there he was asked to run for the Liberal Party of Australia, but turned down the offer, saying It was an honour to be asked by the Prime Minister, but in the end that role is just not for me. Not content with appropriating Polynesian welcome to country ceremonies (and the Harka for Goodes), they now want to appropriate the Treaty of Waitangi! It has the ring of ideology and much of it is open to challenge. . The debate itself was a finalist in the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards for its role in stimulating public awareness and understanding. In April 2020 he was appointed Vice-Chancellors Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University, a position he still holds as of July 2021. Stan Grant Sr is of Aboriginal ancestry. "Dark Emu is a myth to the construction of identity for Bruce Pascoe and for Australia." Until now I have wondered how it would have been possible for an Aboriginal man in the 19th century to teach at school. About 175,000 live in New South Wales, almost all of them thought to be of mixed descent and more or less Westernised, like the majority nationally. (p.44), Ivy remarried, and Keith became a nomad who travelled between his childrens homes. Tracey Holmes and Stan Grant. His father is an elder of the Wiradjuri tribe of Indigenous Australians. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Sometimes he says to me, "Can you please shut up?". For me its all summed up in another trope which is a favourite of the Left: a race to the bottom!! Stan Grant on the search for Frank Foster, the missing part of his family tree, Catch up with The Loop, your quick wrap of this morning's news. Even his appearance is not especially Aboriginal; I wouldnt have thought of it when seeing him on television as a current affairs reporter. Stan GrantStanGrant Stan Grantmarried Marjorie Grant (born Hanson). It is hard to see how his bit of Aboriginal ancestry held him back. Stan Grant, or 'Suntan Stan' as he's being called, is on a hiding to nowhere with his manipulation about aboriginal history, desperately striving to carve out a place for himself in an area of fast declining criticism and disinterest. The film looks at the part played by racism in the demonization of Australian Rules football player Adam Goodes. (p.115), The Aboriginal people at Warrangesda became increasingly restless throughout the decade. (p.271), Throughout his childhood Stan dreamed of becoming a journalist. The Wiradjuri are an Aboriginal Australian people from the south-west inland region of New South Wales. Indigenous NRLW star Caitlin Moran was also served a one-game ban after appearing to celebrate the Queen's death in a since-deleted Instagram post. He was kind of removed; always quite intense. But there is more to this. Stan Grant is a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man. His salary and other earnings are over $2 million annually. 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