Anna Haebich Associate Professor Director, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas Griffith University

Australia Research Council Fellowship
Imagining Assimilation. The Australian Experience, 2002-6

Queensland Heritage Trails
On the Bunya Trail, 2001-2

Louis Johnson Memorial Fellowship
Broken Circles. Fragmenting Indigenous Families, Murdoch University, 1996-99

I am a mid-career academic with two outstanding monographs and other significant publications in the fields of Australian history, Indigenous studies and race relations history.

My career is multi-faceted, combining work in universities, Indigenous organisations, the visual arts and museums.

In my publications I draw on twenty five years of professional and personal involvement with Indigenous people and my membership, through marriage, of an extended Nyungar family in Perth, as well as training in anthropology, history, the visual arts and museology.

Broken Circles: Australia's first comprehensive national history of the removal of Indigenous children (Haebich, 2000); described as 'a work of outstanding scholarship...[that] links the past directly to our current experiences' (Kidd, 2000) and 'an essential tool of reference' (Reynolds, 2001).

Awards

2001 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards

2001 NSW Premier's Book of the Year

2001 Gleebooks Prize

2001 Stanner Award, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

2001 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Nettie Palmer Award for Non-fiction

2001Honourable Mention, Centre for Australian Studies Awards

2001 Short-listed Courier Mail, Age, Human Rights Commission, Queensland Premiers Award, WA Premiers Award

For their own good: seminal monograph on discriminatory government policies and the Nyungar people of South Western Australia, in second edition and third reprint (Haebich 1988, 1992); described as 'possibly the most impressive study published in the field in recent years' (Attwood, 1990) and 'essential reading for all students of Australian history' (Read, 1990); widely quoted.

Awards

1989 Western Australian Premier's Literature Award � Non-Fiction

The Stolen Generations: documents, for the first time, systems of removals in Western Australia from colonial times to the present (Haebich, 1999b).

Many Voices: a major collection of papers based on oral history recordings from Bringing Them Home Project, National Library. On the Bunya Trail and Country. Visions of Land and People edited journal and book relating to environmental history and issues.

Art exhibition catalogue essays (2003, 2004)

Genocide (2002)

Aboriginal child removal, oral history (2003a, 2003b)

Formulation, implementation, representation of assimilation policy (Haebich 1998b, 1999b, 2000, in press)

Racial imagery (Haebich 1999a)

Women and criminal justice (Haebich, 1998a)

Themes: Indigenous, environmental and community history

On the Bunya Trail

Global Arts Link, Ipswich, QSC, Griffith University (web site and CD-Rom)

Germans of South East Queensland

Global Arts Link, Ipswich

Land and People Gallery

WA Museum, Perth

Katta Djinoong First Peoples of Western Australia Gallery

Consultant WA Museum

Books

Haebich, A, (2000) Broken Circles. Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-1990, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 726 pp

Haebich, A, and A Delroy, (1999b) The Stolen Generations. Separation of Aboriginal Children from their Families, Perth: WA Museum. 63 pp

Edited Books, journals

Haebich, A (ed) 2003, On the Bunya Trail. Special Edition of Queensland Review, December.

Haebich, A, M Trinca and A Gaynor (eds) 2003, Country. Visions of Land and People, WA Museum, Perth.

Haebich. A and D Mellor. (eds) 2002, Many Voices Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Book chapters

Haebich, A. and D. Mellor 2003a, 'A community of voices', Anna Haebich and Doreen Mellor (eds), Many Voices Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Haebich, A. and D. Mellor 2003b, 'Ongoing business', Anna Haebich and Doreen Mellor (eds), Many Voices Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Haebich, A., (in publication) 'Nuclear, suburban and black: Commissioner Middleton, Aboriginal families and assimilation', Tim Rowse (ed), Contesting Assimilation. Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Initiatives, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.

Haebich, A., (in publication) 'Clearing the wheat belt. Erasing the indigenous presence in the southwest of Western Australia', Dirk Moses (ed), The Genocide Question, Berghahn Books, New York.

Refereed Articles

Haebich, A. 2003, 'Assimilating nature: the Bunya pine diaspore', Queensland Review.

Haebich, A. 2002,'Imagining assimilation', Australian Historical Studies.

Haebich, A. 2002, ''Between knowing and not knowing'. Public knowledge of the Stolen Generations' in Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, Aboriginal History.

Haebich, A, (1999a) 'Irresistible journeys and imaginings: Boyd's Bride Series Revisited', in R Nile and M Williams (eds), 'Imaginary Homelands The Dubious Cartographies of Australian Identity', Journal of Australian Studies, (61). 8 pp

Haebich, A. 2003, Charmed Circles: Fiona Foley Catalogue Essay. Queensland College of Art, July 2003.

Haebich, A (ed) 2003, On the Bunya Trail. Special Edition of Queensland Review, December.

Haebich, A, M Trinca and A Gaynor (eds) 2003, Country. Visions of Land and People, WA Museum, Perth.

Haebich, A. 2002,'Imagining assimilation', Australian Historical Studies.

Haebich, A. 2002, ''Between knowing and not knowing'. Public knowledge of the Stolen Generations' in Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, Aboriginal History.

Haebich. A and D Mellor. (eds) 2002, Many Voices Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation, National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Haebich, A, (2000) Broken Circles. Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-1990, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 726 pp

Haebich, A, (1999a) 'Irresistible journeys and imaginings: Boyd's Bride Series Revisited', in R Nile and M Williams (eds), 'Imaginary Homelands The Dubious Cartographies of Australian Identity', Journal of Australian Studies, (61). 8 pp Haebich, A, (1998a), 'Murdering step-mothers: the trial and execution of Martha Rendell, Perth, 1909', in R Nile (ed) and A Haebich and J Huggins (guest editors), 'Who Will Care for the Children? Steal Away, Hide Away', Journal of Australian Studies, (59). 15 pp Haebich, A, (1992) For Their Own Good. Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900-1940, (2nd ed, reprinted 1998), Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press. 413 pp

Awards

2003 Centenary Federation Medal for Services to Australian Society and Literature

Various other publications

Haebich, A 2004, Miraculous Pictures, Judy Watson Retrospective Catalogue Essay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Lloyd, N. (2003), 'Broken Circles: An Interview with Anna Haebich', Limina A journal of historical and cultural studies, 9.

Haebich, A. 2003, 'Extract from Broken Circles', in Indigenous Legal Issues, 3rd edition, by H. McCrae, G Nettheim, L Beacroft, and with Luke McNamara, Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales.

.Haebich, A. 2003, Charmed Circles: Fiona Foley Catalogue Essay. Queensland College of Art, July 2003.

Haebich, A. 2001, ''No man is an island'. Bishop Salvado's Vision for Mission Work with the Aboriginal People of Western Australia', in New Norcia Studies, September, (9).

Videos

Haebich A. and A. Williams, 1999, WA's Stolen Generations Murdoch University.

Haebich, A. 1981, 1905 Aborigines Act. Mount Lawley: Mount Lawley Teachers College.

Papers (selected)

2003

Gender and Family Conference, University of Tasmania

National Library Conference, Canberra

National Conference of the Australian Garden History Society, Brisbane

15th Annual Country Public Libraries Conference, Tweed Heads

Satellite Address, Katoomba

Changing Identities Conference, Taiwan University

Perth International Writers Festival

2002

Fred Alexander Lecture, University of Western Australia

Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference

Writers in Focus, State Library of Victoria

Writers on the Road, State Library of Victoria

Adelaide Writers Festival

Ockhams Razor, ABC



2001

AIATSIS National Conference, Canberra

Challenging Histories Conference, Melbourne University

Melbourne Writers' Festival

National Library Open Day, Canberra

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop, University of Sydney,

Gleebooks Public Lecture, RIHSS, University of Sydney

Sydney Writers' Festival

Second National Stolen Generations Conference, Adelaide

Assimilation Then and Now Conference, University of Sydney

Other (post 1999):

Expert reports prepared for Goldfields Land and Sea Council (WA) for native title claims for South-West, Wongutha and Esperance regions ARC assessor (international and national)

Examiner PhD Various

Publications manuscript reader (Allen & Unwin, UWA Press)

Art represented in Curtin University Collection, Glick International Collection, 'Dis.location' Exhibition, John Curtin Art Gallery

Citations

Extensive, including Aboriginal History; Australian Historical Studies; Australian Journal of Politics and History; British Journal of Sociology; Oceania; Social & Legal Studies; New Left Review. Example of citation: 'if Australia has a collective conscience, it is articulated through story telling, so we need sophisticated story tellers who will not forfeit credibility with special pleading. Fortunately we are finding a few, and Anna Haebich is one of them' (Rowse, 2001).