Susan Maushart Susan Maushart i(A25990 works by)
Born: Established: 1958 Long Island, New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1985
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1 Motherhood Milked for All It's Worth Susan Maushart , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 30 October 1996; (p. 7)

— Review of Mad Cows Kathy Lette , 1996 single work novel
1 5 y separately published work icon Sort of a Place Like Home : Remembering the Moore River Native Settlement Susan Maushart , South Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1993 Z920050 1993 single work biography

'Set amongst the low scrub of the Mogumber sand plain north of Perth, the Moore River Native Settlement was, for thirty years, "sort of a place like home" for thousands of Aboriginal people. Sanctuary, work camp, orphanage, prison and rural idyll, the settlement was part of a bold social experiment by the Chief Protector of Aborigines, A. O. Neville, the aim of which was nothing less than the total eradication of a race and a culture.

Making extensive and imaginative use of oral resources and hitherto unseen documents, the book paints a vivid and intimate picture of the life experience of Moore River inmates, while documenting the appalling bureaucratic incompetence, official indifference and occasional outright brutality that made Moore River notorious.' (Source: 2003 edition)

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