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Professor John Maynard will sit on a panel at the National Museum of Australia, as part of the new exhibition ‘A Change is Gonna Come’, to reflect on the 1967 r

Professor Victoria Haskins recently presented recent research at the University of California.

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.

Fight for Liberty and Freedom translated into Mandarin

Professor John Maynard has been selected as one of the new 2016-18 Fulbright Ambassadors.

Professor Maynard walked through the doors at the University of Newcastle’s Wollotuka Institute to get some advice about pulling together a family history of his grandfather, Fred Maynard who was a prominent Aboriginal activist almost 90 years ago.

First comprehensive study into the activities of the NSW Aborigines Protection Board begins.

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.

For the first time, a comprehensive investigation of the Board’s activities and subsequent effects on the lives and families of Aboriginal people in NSW will be researched with the assistance of the Australian Research Council and conducted by the University of Newcastle’s Wollotuka Institute.

Professor John Maynard's book studies the history of the Pambalong Clan of the Awabakal Nation

Prof John Maynard and A/Prof Victoria Haskins awarded $610,000 for their project The NSW Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board 1883-1969: A History

Purai Global Indigenous History Centre in association with the University of Newcaslte Politics Discipline hosted a seminar with Professor Rajeshwari Deshpande based on her case study of domestic workers in two Indian states.