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.

Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Dr Gary Foley, Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Dr Sara Motta and Visiting Professor at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK, Professor Chris Mullard discussed how strategies of silence and violence feed and myths of social inclusion.

Associate Professor Scott Manning Stevens, Native American Studies Director, visited Wollotuka Institute and spoke to students and staff about his work at Syracuse University, New York.

Professor Victoria Haskin’s Future Fellowship has bought together history, anthropology, gender studies, geography, fine art and law scholars from around the world to share insights about the connections between domestic service and colonisation.