CELEBRATE International Women's Day with these trailblazing heroines!

The theme for International Women's Day 2020 is I am Generation Equality: Realising Women's Rights. Here at Wakefield Press we are proud of the cultural, social, economic, and political achievements of the Australian women who have shaped our country and our home state, South Australia. Did you know that South Australia was the first place in the world where women won both the right to vote and the right to stand for parliament, on 18… Continue reading

Book Launch: The First Wave

Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University, South Australia. Gillian is also a journal editor and the author of books and articles on literary subjects from Jane Austen to J.M. Coetzee. In this guest post she writes about the launch of The First Wave: Exploring early coastal contact history in Australia, and the book's importance in our understanding of Australian history. On 20 June, The First Wave: Exploring Early Coastal Contact History in Australia,…

Freda and Me: The Birth of CAAMA, Imparja and Indigenous media in Australia

By Philip Batty In this extract from our new book Kin, a co-founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), Philip Batty, recalls its roots, and the integral role of fellow co-founder Freda Glynn. CAAMA went on to operate Australia's only Aboriginal-owned satellite television service, Imparja Television, and trained a generation of young Indigenous people who went on to form the nucleus of today’s Indigenous media culture in Australia. * * * (above, From Left: John Macumba, FReda Glynn,…