2020

A digital map, touring exhibition, inclusion of research material in the Australian National University's Indigenous Studies major and the painstaking copying, by hand, of minutes from archives are just some of the many outcomes produced by researchers involved in the History of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board (AP/WB) 1883-1969 project.

The parties committed themselves to establish FEDUA’s first Community partnered “Research Hub” (Alternative Futures Research Hub -AFRHub) based at the University of Newcastle, with the purpose of developing and conducting transformative research projects.

Professor Maynard will present a Keynote address, Yuraki – 65,000 Years of Place and Memory, in Toowoomba’s historic Empire Church Theatre at the 38th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference.

Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre and The Centre For 21st Century Humanities will host a talk and a masterclass by visiting international scholar Dr Devaleena Das from the University of Minnesota Duluth.

During the Second World War, more than six million servicemen and more than 300,000 civilians spent time in South Africa, a transport hub for Allied operations and a base for military training.

Professor Haskins attended the 2018 European Social Science History Conference in Belfast being one of three panel members on a roundtable discussion centred on the idea of regulating domestic work in both historical/contemporary contexts, and colonial/non-colonial contexts.

It was an emotional day for Dr Ray Kelly when the NSW government introduced the nation's first laws to recognise and revive Indigenous languages.

Speaking at the Birckbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Purai Co-Director Professor John Maynard said that the connection that Indigenous Australian activists had with Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) smashes the entrenched belief of an inward, insular and nationalistic political movement.

Without the generosity of Australian Indigenous people, the chances of an early European surviving a shipwreck or a penal escape were slim in the nineteenth century.

Professor John Maynard didn’t even think about going to university until he was 40 years old and, twelve books later, he’s a professor.

In 1927, one of main founders of the Aboriginal Progressive Society, Fred Maynard, delivered a defiant and powerful message to the NSW government and the then Aboriginies Protection/Welfare Board.

From 1883 until 1969, the lives and affairs of Aboriginal people in NSW were governed and controlled by the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board, yet there is no definitive history of the Board and its activities in NSW.