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1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages) : portraits, maps, facsimiles |
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Australian history |
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Australian history
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| Contents |
Cover; Front matter; Title page; Copyright and imprint information; Contents; List of maps; Opening quotes; Introduction; Parents and Childhood; 1. Parents: A pioneer Scots pastoralist and a London artist; 2. Mimi's childhood: 'Queensland, our home'?; Author to Activist; 3. Mimi Christison: Art student and young English lady; 4. Christison of Lammermoor: Romance burdened by reality; 5. M.M. Bennett: Emerging activist; The Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia; 6. Learning about Western Australia: 'My eyes open and my mouth shut'; 7. Mrs Bennett, teacher: Mount Margaret Mission |
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8. Commissioner Moseley and Chief Protector Neville9. Disillusionment; Belonging, Identity, Commitment; 10. Dora and Gladys: Wartime London and a return to Australia; 11. Families: Peter Pontara and Human Rights for Aborigines; 12. The Wongatha people of Kalgoorlie; 13. Final days; Epilogue; Image block; Maps; Map 1: Southern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania; Map 2: Queensland and northern New South Wales; Map 3: England and southern Scotland; Map 4: Central and South Australia; Map 5: South-west and west coast of Western Australia; Map 6: Eastern goldfields of Western Australia |
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End matterAcknowledgments; Further reading; Index; Back cover |
| Summary |
Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal Australians had their citizens' rights curtailed by repressive state laws. From her late forties until her death she fought for justice on behalf of the first Australians. She was a teacher, a writer and an advocate. She vehemently opposed the separating, on racial grounds, of Aboriginal children from their families. She put the case, decades before campaigns began, for Aboriginal rights to traditional lands. And she argued for citizenship rights, including equal pay and access to old age pensions for Aboriginal people. A friend described her as 'a white hot flame', relentless in pursuit of a better world for the people she loved. This first complete biography seeks the sources of Mary's inspiring energy, maintained throughout her life, in her family background and early life experiences |
| Analysis |
Australian |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie)
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Christison family.
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Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie), 1881-1961
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Christison family. fast (OCoLC)fst00319170 |
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Women social reformers -- Australia -- Biography
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Women civil rights workers -- Australia -- Biography
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights -- Australia -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- History
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- History
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Lobbyists -- Australia
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Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
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Lobbyists.
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Women civil rights workers.
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Women social reformers.
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Australia.
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collective biographies.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925523195 |
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1925523195 |
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