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was to demonstrate and correct the cultural bias and gender blindness of previous research on Aboriginal cultural life. It is an early example of new understandings of Australian Indigenous history and culture that began to emerge in the 1980s following
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an edited collection of referenced essays based on original reports to the Aboriginal Heritage Unit by herself and seven other non-Aboriginal women expert in this area (
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in 1989, Brock was working on her doctorate at the University of Adelaide, which was awarded in 1992. Moving to Perth, she approached the recently-established
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After being appointed to Edith Cowan, she gained successive promotions, leading ultimately to a professorial position there in 2007. She was appointed as a
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Brock married Norman Etherington, whom she met as a lecturer in history at Adelaide University, and they had two sons. Nathan and Ben.
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In 1985, while working for the Aboriginal Heritage Unit in SA, she published her first work, which was based on her work with the
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Brock died of cancer on 30 May 2023. She was survived by her husband, sons, and grandchildren. Scarlett and Harriet Etherington
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Brock initially became a high school teacher, but was led to leave teaching after a student asked her why they were studying
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beliefs. After migrating to Australia, they were brought together during World War II by their shared experiences and
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The family returned to Adelaide in 2010, with Brock continuing her research as a visiting research fellow, funded by
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during the 1980s. She started helping Aboriginal communities to write about what happened to their peoples after the
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women. Her work continues to be cited in national and international debates over Indigenous policy. Born in
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast, Vancouver
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The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast
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She spent 15 years researching, transcribing, and writing a major work published in 2011,
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Indigenous Evangelists and Questions of Authority in the British Empire 1750-1940 (2015)
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Indigenous Evangelist and Questions of Authority in the British Empire 1750-1940)
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Yura and Udnyu: A History of the Adnyhamathanaha of the North Flinders Ranges
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for "significant service to tertiary education, and to Indigenous history".
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Poonindie, the Rise and Destruction of an Aboriginal Agricultural Community
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Poonindie: The Rise and Destruction of an Aboriginal Agricultural Community
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Outback Ghettoes. A History of Aboriginal Institutionalisation and Survival
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Poonindie: The Rise and Destruction of an Aboriginal Agricultural Community
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Outback Ghettos. A History of Aboriginal Institutionalisation and Survival
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The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia
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Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History
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Colonialism and its Aftermath, A history of Aboriginal South Australia
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grants, and continued to contribute to books and studies. She became
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in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University]].
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on 16 March 1948. Her parents, Frank and Ilse, were Austrian and
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Women, Rites & Sites. Aboriginal Women's Cultural Knowledge
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In all she wrote or edited nine books, of which six were about
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Women Rites & Sites. Aboriginal Women's Cultural Knowledge,
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Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival
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Women Rites & Sites. Aboriginal women's cultural knowledge
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Women Rites & Sites. Aboriginal women's cultural knowledge
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Brock, Peggy (1989). "Introduction". In Brock, Peggy (ed.).
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as a planner for the proposed but later abandoned city of
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With Etherington, N., Griffiths, G., & Van Gent, J.,
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This research led to another another major publication,
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She travelled widely in her twenties, mainly in Europe.
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Words and Silences: Aboriginal women, politics and land
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Words and Silences. Aboriginal Women, politics and land
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Words and Silences. Aboriginal Women, Politics and Land
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and she found that she could not answer that question.
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Historical Background to the South Australian Report
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Margaret Susan Brock
AM
FASSA
Indigenous history in Australia
Australian Aboriginal
Adelaide
emeritus professor
Edith Cowan University
Perth
Western Australia
Adelaide
South Australia
German Jews
socialist
German accents
physiotherapist
Netherby
Hazelwood Park
Seymour College
University of Adelaide
Henry VIII
South Australian Government
Monarto
Department of Environment and Planning
colonisation of Australia
Norman Etherington
University of Western Australia
Edith Cowan University
visiting fellow
University of Basel

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