Anna Haebich is a multi-award winning Australian author and historian, who is especially recognised for her research and work with Aboriginal communities and in particular the Noongar people. She is part of a large Noongar family through marriage. Her career combines university teaching, research, curatorship, creative writing and visual arts. Anna is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University and is currently researching Aboriginal performing arts in Western Australia, past and present. Her publications include Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000, which is the first and most comprehensive national history of Australia’s Stolen Generations; the definitive history For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900–1940; and Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia.
Steve Mickler is Head of the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University. He has a diverse background in Indigenous affairs and academia, having previously worked in Aboriginal Affairs in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, including in the public affairs sections of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, ATSIC and as a research officer with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. His previous publications include Gambling on the First Race: A Comment on Racism and Talkback Radio, The Myth of Privilege: Aboriginal Status, Media Visions, Public Ideas, The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press (with Niall Lucy), and numerous journal articles dealing with media and public representation of Indigenous affairs.