Associate Professor Helen Gardner‘s article, ‘The Historian’s Impotence: The Stolen Generation is not a thing of the past’, was published on ABC Religion and Ethics on 12 September 2017. 

Associate Professor Gardner teaches twentieth century international history; race, science and religion in the formation or denial of citizenship in Australasia in the late 19th century and the decolonisation of Melanesia. Helen’s research is on local and global histories of race, mission, colonialism and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific Islands throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For the Contemporary Histories Research Group, Helen leads research into contemporary and historical Pacific issues.