Meg Hale Meg Hale i(7948240 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Blak Wave Meg Hale (editor), Melbourne : Next Wave Festival Inc. , 2014 8107153 2014 anthology single work biography art work essay

'Sitting at the centre of Next Wave Festival 2014 is Black Wave : seven new art projects, a rollicking talks series and a new publications exploring what's personally, politically and artistically Next for Australia's Indigenous peoples.'

'This landmark publication asks contemporary artists and curators from across the country to explore the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, and artists. Their responses are rich, strong, diverse and inspiring.' (Source. Inside from cover)

1 1 y separately published work icon Mothers in ARMS : Forced Adoption - Mothers Find a Voice Meg Hale , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2014 7948258 2014 single work life story

'In March 2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard made the National Apology to those who had endured decades of suffering. Figures were not recorded but an estimated 150,000 to 250,000 babies had been adopted in Australia in the 'best interests of the child', most in the 1950s to 1970s. Many were taken from single women unsupported by their families. The repercussions for mother and child have been immense.

Mothers in ARMS tells the inside story of the women who formed the Australian Relinquishing Mothers Society in South Australia. These mothers were determined to fight for their right to find the children taken from them through forced adoption by doctors, nurses, social workers and religious figures - often with the support of government agencies. They were told they had willingly abandoned their children and had no rights. But they would not be stopped. From an uncertain start in 1982, they gained strength and confidence. They educated the community and lobbied governments for information to discover if their children were still alive, and they fought fear and prejudice to have secret adoption records opened so they and their children could at last find one another.

Eventually these women were instrumental in changing the law. Because of ARMS, South Australia passed the first laws in the English-speaking world giving mothers the same rights as adopted people to apply for identifying information about one another.' (Wakefield Press)

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