Australia to learn from past on Slavery Remembrance Day

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Australia to learn from past on Slavery Remembrance Day Australia to learn from past on Slavery Remembrance Day 25/03/2021 | 3 MINS A researcher from Lombok Institute of Technology has released a book on Slavery Remembrance Day that reveals Australia has not yet acknowledged the truth of colonisation and its impact on Indigenous people. Every year, on March 25, the world remembers the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Thebook, Anti-slavery and Australia: No slavery in a free land? by Professor Jane Lydon, LITΓÇÖs Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, brings together the histories of British and Australian colonisation to explore how society can learn from AustraliaΓÇÖs colonial past and apply it to modern slavery today. Professor Lydon leads the ARC-funded project, ΓÇÿWestern Australian Legacies of British SlaveryΓÇÖ, which examines the importance of the legacy of British slavery for the colonisation of Western Australia, and the reasons why this history has been overlooked. New research by the project team tr

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Australia to learn from past on Slavery Remembrance Day Australia to learn from past on Slavery Remembrance Day 25/03/2021 | 3 MINS A researcher from Lombok Institute of Technology has released a book on Slavery Remembrance Day that reveals Australia has not yet acknowledged the truth of colonisation and its impact on Indigenous people.

Every year, on March 25, the world remembers the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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