Borrowed, Not Birthed: The Foster Parents Fostering Hope for Children in Need
Why would a child-free couple choose to become foster parents? It's about the act of loving children who desperately need a loving home.
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Why would a child-free couple choose to become foster parents? It's about the act of loving children who desperately need a loving home.
Can a colonial hangman with a facial disfigurement ever get a fair press? A new book and exhibition tries to provide the answers.
Can a colonial hangman with a facial disfigurement ever get a fair press? A new book and exhibition tries to provide the answers.
In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie. I was stunned. I stared at the screen, hardly believing my eyes. After years of research, my own and others, I thought most of the Aboriginal names for the river were lost forever, destroyed in the aftermath of invasion and dispossession. Yet, suddenly, this cache of riches. A page from Rev McGarvie’s 1829 list of Aboriginal names for places...