Indigenous lives and the Australian Dictionary of Biography

Indigenous lives and the Australian Dictionary of Biography

16 October 2017

Of the more than 12,000 individuals included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) only 210 (1.5%) of all entries relate to Indigenous Australians. In this lecture Dr Shino Konishi charts how the ADB has addressed Indigenous lives in the past, and draws on other national dictionaries of biography for insights into new conceptions and practices of Indigenous biography.

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