Bernadette Kennedy has descended from Irish, English and Scottish migrants who came to Victoria in the 1840s. After ten years as a teacher, she crossed the Nullarbor and has worked with the homeless and disadvantaged in Western Australia for many years. Active in peace and justice campaigns both locally and internationally, she has taken pleasure in the writings of Simone Weil and the music of Mozart. She met
Rene Powell (q.v.) in East Perth in 1978 and their book,
Rene
Baker File #28/E.D.P., has been one of the outcomes of that friendship.
