The Road to Australia Award She has over thirty years’

She has over thirty years’ experience in Indigenous matters including land and native title claims

Geoff Booth

Chapter 2: The Travelling- Learning from the Old People

tensions and entanglements as Aboriginal people took up the political demand of self-determination and worked to address their community disadvantage

and to give a picture of life of the Meriam people of the Murray Island

The Road to Australia Award She has over thirty years’Russian ethnographer Vladimir Kabo's passion for more than 30 years has been the study of Australia's Indigenous people. Continually denied permission to travel abroad, he finally arrived in Australia in 1990 to start a new life. This memoir records his life and work against the background of Soviet political and academic life since the revolution. An afterword by one of his Australian colleagues, anthropologist Rhys Jones, provides an appreciation of