In an extract from her new book, Narungga poet and researcher Natalie Harkin reveals intimate truths about the shameful history of Aboriginal domestic labour.
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In 1903, Miles Franklin went undercover to investigate the ‘servant question’. The exploitation she saw continues today.
Labour is the central theme for understanding history and legacies of Mount Elgin Industrial School, a former Indian Residential School, in a new exhibition at Art Windsor Essex.
Alison Watt’s grandmother was diagnosed with ‘puerperal insanity’ and institutionalised not long after giving birth to her father. He didn’t meet her – or know she was alive – until his early 20s.
Community plays have become a way for the stories and experiences of slavery survivors to be told and understood in Jamestown, Accra.
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Reader in Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
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Head of Programs and Projects at Art Windsor Essex and Munsee Delaware History and Language group member
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Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW
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Associate Professor, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University