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In this article the author discusses a story told by the South Australian Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal elder, Aunty Hilda Wilson (nee Varcoe), about the time when, at not quite sixteen, she was sent from the Point Pearce Aboriginal Station to work in the Adelaide Hills, some 500 kilometres away, as a housekeeper for 'one of Adelaide's leading doctors'. Her secondment was part of a widespread practice in early and mid-twentieth century Australia of placing young Aboriginal women 'of marriageable age' from missions and government reserves into domestic service. Consciously deploying Indigenous storytelling practices as pedagogy, Hilda Wilson recounted this episode in a number of distinct ways during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Across these iterations, each building on the other, she exhibited a personal resilience in her subjectivity, embedded in Indigenous knowledge systems of relationality, kin and work, which informed her agency and determination in a challenging situation in which she was both caring for a white socially-privileged family of five, while simultaneously grappling with the injustices of a state system of segregated indentured labour.

Karen P. Hughes is US Under Secretary of State for public diplomacy and public affairs.

AbstractThis article examines the intersecting social circumstances of Australian women's intimate, international relationships with American and other foreign allied servicemen during the Second World War, including their experiences of romance, marriage, divorce and subsequent child‐maintenance USA. We explore how the widely varying, often highly personalised, perceptions of the women's raced, classed and ethnic status, across differing legal systems, could impact not only immigration eligibility, but, especially in the case of Indigenous women, the fundamental right to marry. Immigration laws and local authorities worked in discretionary ways, shaped by a range of considerations and interactions, including class, race and gender to limit non‐white people's mobility and freedom. We demonstrate how this unprecedented larger‐scale experience of international and interracial marriage unsettles feminist arguments that underplay the intersection of issues of race, ethnicity and class with gender in the impact of the Second World War and set the scene for subsequent social changes driven by the logics of race inequality. Enlarging on earlier scholarship, we see the Second World War as a site for the ignition of changes in women's economic, cultural and political status, related here not so much to their work experiences, but to their personal and romantic lives, and also transnational raced experiences of exclusion, agency and shared knowledges.

From the moment small consumer cameras became available in Australia in the early twentieth century, Ngarrindjeri people embraced photography as a means to record their history, and represent their families, aesthetic traditions, and world views against the perilous times of attempted assimilation by the state, including the rampant forced removal of Aboriginal children that came to be known as the Stolen Generations. For the first time such a large body of photographs had been shared outside a deeply protective family context. Previously, the photographs were preserved in albums, picture frames, biscuit tins, and timeworn suitcases across the various locales where Ngarrindjeri live, some making their way onto tablets and mobile devices. Many had survived the ravages of fires and floods and the enforced movements by governments over three-quarters of a century. This collection of digitised rare historical photographs, taken by Ngarrindjeri photographers and retained in Ngarrindjeri families, operates both as a rich counter archive to colonial representations and settler memory, and as esteemed cultural objects capable of drawing the weight of the ancestral past into the present moment, tangibly enlivening cultural and spiritual connections generationally today. This book was produced to accompany the exhibition.

Microcomputers are the wave of the future and will revolutionize educational technology as they revolutionize almost every other aspect of our lives. But are they always the most effective and efficient learning tool for severely handicapped students? Perhaps not. At least, they are not the best tool for all severely handicapped learners. There are less complex, less expensive, easier-to-produce, and easier-to-use media that can do an outstanding job of teaching specific skills. We need to be imaginative enough to realize that microcomputers may not always be the best answer, and we need to be realistic enough to look for simple or "low tech" methods when "high tech" is literally beyond the grasp of our learners. If we are truly committed to creating student-use materials, we need to learn from our severely handicapped students. They can tell us which medium and which method is best for them as individual learners. This paper will describe some of the media and methods now being investigated by the Instructional Media Production Project for Severely Handicapped Students as it develops student-use materials.