Dr. Shirleene Robinson is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n historian who has focused mainly on the employment of Aboriginal

Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

 children in Australia's past. She has also published some research in the area of Indigenous child removals and homophobia. Her Ph.D. and postgraduate studies were undertaken at the University of Queensland

University of Queensland

The University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...

 and she has taught as a visiting fellow at the University of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales, Lampeter

University of Wales, Lampeter is a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822 by royal charter, it is the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales and may be the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge...

. She presently teaches history and Australian popular culture in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bond University

Bond University

Bond University is a private university located in Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is also the first private university established in Australia...

on Australia's Gold Coast.

Publications

Something like slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal child workers, 1842-1945 (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2008)

(editor) Homophobia: An Australian History (Annandale, New South Wales: Federation Press, 2008)

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22570057-2,00.html

External links

• http://www.bond.edu.au/hss/staff/srobinson.html (Robinson's page at Bond University)