Fiona Paisley Fiona Paisley i(A63536 works by)
Gender: Female
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Fiona Paisley is a cultural historian at Griffith University who works on progressive networks and the reform of settler colonialism in the first half of the 20th century. She has a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education from Monash University, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D from LaTrobe University. Paisley was a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University. She has written on internationalism and settler colonial history in the first half of the twentieth century and on Indigenous history and gender issues.

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y separately published work icon The Lone Protestor : A M Fernando in Australia and Europe Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2012 Z1874516 2012 single work biography

'The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country.

'Fernando is believed to be the first Aboriginal person to protest conditions in Australia from the streets of Europe. His various forms of action, from pamphlets on the streets of Rome to the famous Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, distinguish this lone protestor as a unique Aboriginal activist of his time.

'Drawn from an extensive search in archives from Australia and Europe, this is the first full-length study of Fernando and the self-professed mission that was to last half of his adult life.

'Paisley brings to light new episodes in Fernando's activist career as well as previously unknown details about his extraordinary life in Australia and overseas. Her account dramatically shifts our understanding of the international reach of Aboriginal protest in this era.' (From the publisher's website.)
2014 winner ASAL Awards — The Australian Historical Association Awards — Magarey Medal for Biography
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