About the Author

Richard Broome is Emeritus Professor in History at La Trobe University and President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. He is the author of 14 books on Indigenous and Australian History, his most recent being A Naga Odyssey: Visier’s Long Way Home (2017) with Visier Sanyü, and Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 (2019, 5th edition). Charles Fahey taught history at La Trobe University, Melbourne until his retirement in 2018. His research explores Australian Labor, rural and mining History. With Alan Mayne he published Gold Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields (2010). Andrea Gaynor is Associate Professor of History, Chair of the History Discipline Group and Director of the Centre for Western Australian History at the University of Western Australia. An environmental historian, she seeks to use the contextualising and narrative power of history to help address environmental problems. Katie Holmes is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her work integrates environmental, gender and oral history, and seeks to understand the experience of Australian settlement. Her most recent book is Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens (2011).