'Paula Abood's 'Archive of the Displaced' presents a related lacuna in the present
institutionalised account of the nation. Abood writes of a current community cultural
development program working to provide refugee women with the means to record
the 'living repository' of war, displacement, racism and resistance through collective
storytelling. Her account and the project itself provide a mindful response to the
fleeting nature of the present and its traces in the face of official records.' (Source: Introduction : Archive Madness, p. 2)