Connecting Kin

Connecting Kin
Author: Kristy Thinee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1998
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN: 9780731042623

In NSW more than 100,000 children, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal have been made wards of the State since 1924. Thousands more have been placed with other families under adoption or other arrangements. This book is a guide to available records of government & non-government welfare agencies, hospitals and government non-welfare agencies.

Lookin for Your Mob

Lookin for Your Mob
Author: Diane Evelyn Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Family history source handbook; genealogy; includes relevant organisations arranged by state.

Big White Lie

Big White Lie
Author: John Fitzgerald
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780868408705

Much has been written about the White Australia Policy, but very little has been written about it from a Chinese perspective. Big White Lie shifts our understanding of the White Australia Policy - and indeed White Australia - by exploring what Chinese Australians were saying and doing at a time when they were officially excluded.Big White Lie pays close attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations, and their business and religious lives. It shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia. The book's focus on Chinese Australians provides a refreshing new perspective on the important role the Chinese have played in Australia's past at a time when China's likely role in Australia's future is more compelling than ever.

The Amateur Tramp

The Amateur Tramp
Author: Colin Choat
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646989372

Aidan De Brune was the first person to walk around the perimeter of Australia. He set off in 1921, unaccompanied and unassisted and walked 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometres) from Sydney to Sydney, anticlockwise. Everywhere he walked, he asked people to sign his travel diary, as evidence of his presence in the places he visited. He was also a journalist and he regularly wrote articles during his walk, which appeared in the Sydney Daily Mail and other newspapers.He was a prolific writer of serialised mystery stories, which were syndicated in newspapers throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was also an accomplished musician who gave music lessons and at one time played piano accompaniments to silent films in London.

Reconciling Canada

Reconciling Canada
Author: Jennifer Henderson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442695471

Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases that have emerged in Canada in recent decades, Reconciling Canada provides readers with the contexts for understanding the phenomenon of reconciliation as it has played out in this multicultural settler state. In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. The contributors offer ground-breaking perspectives on Canada’s ‘culture of redress,’ broaching questions of law and constitutional change, political coalitions, commemoration, testimony, and literatures of injury and its aftermath. Also assembled together for the first time is a collection of primary documents – including government reports, parliamentary debates, and redress movement statements – prefaced with contextual information. Reconciling Canada provides a vital and immensely relevant illumination of the dynamics of reconciliation, apology, and redress in contemporary Canada.