- BA (1969), M.Phil (2018), University of Western Australiaedit
From the dusty mining town of Mt Magnet, to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey, Eily Delany rose through the ranks in two world wars, serving as a Great War nurse in India and an RAF officer in World... more
From the dusty mining town of Mt Magnet, to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey, Eily Delany rose through the ranks in two world wars, serving as a Great War nurse in India and an RAF officer in World War 2.
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Jean Pierre Meunier, recruited into a British Army mercenary regiment from a prison in Cadiz, was subsequently convicted of desertion and sentenced to transportation to Australia for life. Modern gene technology has identified him as the... more
Jean Pierre Meunier, recruited into a British Army mercenary regiment from a prison in Cadiz, was subsequently convicted of desertion and sentenced to transportation to Australia for life. Modern gene technology has identified him as the progenitor of an Australian family now in its sixth generation.
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In 1897 two young station managers brutally beat to death a Nyamal man and two Nyamal women at Bendhu Station, north of Marble Bar, in remote Western Australia. This honours dissertation examines the event and its consequences.
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This MSS describes the voyage of 101 female convicts from Britain to New South Wales in 1816-17.
A brief account of the first major legal action against the Melbourne tramway company.
This thesis examines the life of a young Aboriginal man, Yonki Yonka (c. 1823-1846), whose generation endured the colonisation of Port Phillip and the establishment of Melbourne.
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This docudrama introduces a ‘view from the bush’ in which the Nyamal exhibit agency to counter and overcome the ‘view from the homestead’, whereby colonial agencies rendered them helpless victims.