A white hot flame : Mary Montgomerie Bennett - author, educator, activist for Indigenous justice /

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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 for...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taffe, Sue (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2018.
Edición:[CA & US version].
Colección:Australian history.
Temas:
Bennett, M. M. > (Mary Montgomerie)
Christison family.
Bennett, M. M. > (Mary Montgomerie), > 1881-1961.
Christison family
1900-1999
Women social reformers > Australia > Biography.
Women civil rights workers > Australia > Biography.
Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Aboriginal Australians > Civil rights > Australia > History.
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure > Australia > History.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of > Australia > History.
Lobbyists > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians > Civil rights.
Aboriginal Australians > Economic conditions.
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions > 20th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure.
Réformatrices sociales > Australie > Biographies.
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme > Australie > Biographies.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Droits > Australie > Histoire.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Terres > Australie > Histoire.
Attitudes envers les Australiens (Aborigènes) > Australie > Histoire.
Lobbyistes > Australie.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Droits.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Terres.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Aboriginal Australians > Civil rights
Aboriginal Australians > Economic conditions
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure
Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc.
Aboriginal Australians > Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
Lobbyists
Women civil rights workers
Women social reformers
Australia
Australian
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • End matterAcknowledgments; Further reading; Index; Back cover.

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