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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Australian history |
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Australian history (Monash University Publishing)
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| Contents |
Intro; Title page; Copyright and imprint information; Contents; List of maps; Introduction; Parents and Childhood; Chapter 1. Parents: A pioneer Scots pastoralist and a London artist; Chapter 2. Mimi's childhood: 'Queensland, Our Home'?; Author to Activist; Chapter 3. Mimi Christison: Art student and young English lady; Chapter 4. Christison of Lammermoor: Romance burdened by reality; Chapter 5. M.M. Bennett: Emerging activist; The Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia; Chapter 6. Learning about Western Australia: 'My eyes open and my mouth shut' |
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Chapter 7. Mrs Bennett, Teacher: Mount Margaret MissionChapter 8. Commissioner Moseley and Chief Protector Neville; Chapter 9. Disillusionment; Image block; Belonging, Identity, Commitment; Chapter 10. Dora and Gladys: Wartime London and a return to Australia; Chapter 11. Families: Peter Pontara and Human Rights for Aborigines; Chapter 12. The Wongatha people of Kalgoorlie; Chapter 13. Final days; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Further reading; Index; Backcover |
| Summary |
Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal Australians had their citizens' rights curtailed by repressive state laws. From her late forties until her death she fought for justice on behalf of the first Australians. She was a teacher, a writer, and an advocate. She vehemently opposed the separating, on racial grounds, of Aboriginal children from their families. She put the case, decades before campaigns began, for Aboriginal rights to tra |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-418) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie)
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Women social reformers -- Australia -- Biography
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Women civil rights workers -- Australia -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights -- Australia -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- History
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
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Women civil rights workers
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Women social reformers
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Biography: general.
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History.
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Australia
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925523201 |
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1925523209 |
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