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Bain Attwood Bain Attwood i(A2314 works by) (a.k.a. Bain Munro Attwood)
Born: Established: 1956
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

'Bain Attwood was born and raised in New Zealand, and has worked and lived in Australia for the last 25 years. He was educated at the University of Waikato, the University of Auckland and La Trobe University, and has been an associate professor in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University, and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian National University. He has published widely in the history of colonialism. His books include The Making of the Aborigines; A Life Together, a Life Apart; Rights for Aborigines; and Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History. His current research project is a case study of the ways in which Aboriginal sovereignty and rights to land were treated, remembered and forgotten in Australia by settlers and Aboriginal people.' (Source: The Australian Academy of the Humanities website)

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Bain Attwood's book, Possession : Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (2009) was shortlisted for the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best History Book.

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon William Cooper : An Aboriginal Life Story Carlton : Miegunyah Press , 2021 22128889 2021 single work biography

'An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist

'William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights, and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country, has been widely commemorated and celebrated. By carefully reconstructing the historical losses his people suffered and endured, William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story reveals how the first seventy years of Cooper's life inspired the remarkable political work he undertook in the 1930s Focusing on Cooper's most important campaigns - his famous petition to King George VI for an Aboriginal representative in the Australian parliament, his call for a day of mourning after 150 years of colonisation, the walk-off of the Yorta Yorta people from Cummeragunja reserve in 1939 and his opposition to the establishment of an Aboriginal regiment in the Second World War - this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought…' (Publication summary)
2022 highly commended Victorian Community History Award — Community Diversity Award
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