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'Sue Taffe first heard of Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881–1961), or ‘Mimi’, while conducting oral history interviews with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal activists for an earlier book about the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Their term for Bennett, ‘spiritual mother’, stuck with the author. In this book, Taffe provides a detailed and convincing biographical interpretation of a young woman growing up between two worlds. The book focuses for almost half its length on Bennett’s early life, between her pioneer Scottish pastoralist father in Australia and her London artist mother in England and Europe.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 18 no. 2 2021 22543058 2021 periodical issue 'In March 2021, the executive committee of the Australian Historical Association was pleased to submit to the federal government’s Indigenous Voice Discussion Paper its support of the immediate adoption of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The AHA submission joined hundreds of others, accessible on the Australian government’s website for the various ‘Indigenous Voice Co-Design Groups’. It noted the Association’s shared understanding with the Uluru Statement of the role of history in Australia’s national life. Both the AHA and the Uluru Statement’s signatories argue that a deep understanding of our complex histories point to the necessity now of holding a constitutional referendum on the question of an Indigenous Voice to parliament.' (Editorial introduction)

    2021     pg. 412-413
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