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First Person: Haste, Hope and Hubris

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Boarding and Australia's First Peoples

Part of the book series: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World ((ISRAW,volume 3))

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In this chapter engages with the life narrative of a young man from very remote Australia who transitioned to boarding school, to university and back home again. His account highlights the long-term implications of the transition process.

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  • Whettingsteel, E. (2020). ‘It would give you a space to be yourself’: The role for interior design in Aboriginal students’ sense of belonging at boarding school. Unpublished PhD thesis, Curtin University.

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Correspondence to Marnie O’Bryan .

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O’Bryan, M. (2021). First Person: Haste, Hope and Hubris. In: Boarding and Australia's First Peoples. Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6009-2_7

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