Margaret Simons: secret women’s business on Hindmarsh Island

Joseph, SA

Margaret Simons: secret women’s business on Hindmarsh Island

Joseph, SA

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Citation:: 2015
Issue Date:: 2015-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Joseph, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4978-6633	en_US
dc.date	2014-05-15	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2015	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34222
dc.description.abstract	Leading Australian literary journalist Margaret Simons (1960) is an award-winning freelance and the author of ten books and many essays and articles. As a social and political commentator in Australia, she is regarded as one of the best. In 2003, her book The Meeting of the Waters: The Hindmarsh Island Affair, brokered both heated debate and revelation. Her investigation into the battle between local Aboriginal people living on Hindmarsh Island in South Australia, and developers wishing to build a bridge between the mainland and the island during the 1990s, is both beautifully written and starkly troubling. This story, I believe, goes beyond the immediate telling, reflecting the troubled divide between indigenous and white Australia – a metaphor, so to speak, of a simmering but still current disconnect.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Literary Journalism: Local, Regional, National, Global”	en_US
dc.title	Margaret Simons: secret women’s business on Hindmarsh Island	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location.activity	American University of Paris	en_US
utslib.for	1903 Journalism and Professional Writing	en_US
dc.location.activity	American University of Paris
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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Abstract:

Leading Australian literary journalist Margaret Simons (1960) is an award-winning freelance and the author of ten books and many essays and articles. As a social and political commentator in Australia, she is regarded as one of the best. In 2003, her book The Meeting of the Waters: The Hindmarsh Island Affair, brokered both heated debate and revelation. Her investigation into the battle between local Aboriginal people living on Hindmarsh Island in South Australia, and developers wishing to build a bridge between the mainland and the island during the 1990s, is both beautifully written and starkly troubling. This story, I believe, goes beyond the immediate telling, reflecting the troubled divide between indigenous and white Australia – a metaphor, so to speak, of a simmering but still current disconnect.

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