Name Anna Haebich | Role Writer | |
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Books Broken Circles: Fragment, For Their Own Good: Aborigine, Spinning the Dream: Assimilati, A Boy's Short Life: The True, Murdering Stepmothers: The Exec | ||
Anna Haebich (Anna Elizabeth) is an Australian writer and academic.
Anna is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. She was formerly a Research Intensive Professor at Griffith University and prior to that was the foundation Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University. She also led the Griffith Research Program "Creative for Life" that addressed creativity across cultures and generations and was the Griffith University Orbicom UNESCO Chair.
Anna is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and has been a member of the AIATSIS Research Advisory Committee.
Anna is the author of a number of influential and award winning books focusing on Indigenous history and Australia's discriminatory policies, including For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900 to 1940 (1988) and Broken Circles Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 (2000). For Their Own Good won the 1989 Western Australian Premier's Literature Award for Non-Fiction and Broken Circles received a number of awards including NSW Premiers Book of the Year 2001 and 2001 AIATSIS W J Stanner Award.
Anna was one of a group of writers involved in unraveling the Moore River Native Settlement history, and the legacy of A.O. Neville on generations of indigenous Australians. Susan Maushart, Rosemary van den Berg, Jack Davis, and Doris Pilkington.
More recent publications investigate the personal history of individuals that lived in Western Australia including Murdering Stepmothers The Execution of Martha Rendell and A Boy's Short Life Warren Braedon/Louis Johnson.
Further details are available on-line from the The Encyclopaedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia.