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Peter Read

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Peter Read is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the Department of History, University of Sydney, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History, ANU. Currently he is researching a history of Aboriginal Sydney, and is slowly building the website A History of Aboriginal Sydney.

Peter Read coined the phrase 'the stolen generation', first used by him as a title for a magazine article. In 1981 he helped create Link-up, an organisation to bring Aborigines who had been abducted back to their parents. It went on to become a major force leading to the Stolen Generation enquiry. On the way Peter wrote many influential publications, including The Lost Children , Charles Perkins: A Biography and Lost Places .

Peter Read

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Peter Read is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the Department of History, University of Sydney, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History, ANU. Currently he is researching a history of Aboriginal Sydney, and is slowly building the website A History of Aboriginal Sydney.

Peter Read coined the phrase 'the stolen generation', first used by him as a title for a magazine article. In 1981 he helped create Link-up, an organisation to bring Aborigines who had been abducted back to their parents. It went on to become a major force leading to the Stolen Generation enquiry. On the way Peter wrote many influential publications, including The Lost Children , Charles Perkins: A Biography and Lost Places .

Books from Peter Read

A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The return of the Stolen Generation

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Indigenous Biography And Autobiography

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership

Charles Perkins: A Biography

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Tripping Over Feathers: Scenes in the Life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams: A Narrative of the Stolen Generations

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Returning To Nothing: The Meaning Of Lost Places

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Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing

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Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places

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The Lost Children: Thirteen Australians Taken from Their Aboriginal Families Tell of the Struggle to Find Their Natural Parents

4.5/5 ( ratings)

What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney

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