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Eve Vincent, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Macquarie University

Alice Duncan-Kemp was an empathetic observer of Mithaka culture, but her legacy is complicated

Mark Kolbe/Getty Images, Blank Inc., Angus & Robertson, W.R. Smith & Paterson, The Conversation

Alice’s dreaming is centrally about the childhood, memories and writings of Alice Duncan-Kemp (1901-1988), who grew up on a pastoral property named Mooraberrie in the first decades of the 20th century.

Mooraberrie was a vast sheep and cattle station located in the Channel Country between Birdsville and Windorah in inland south-western Queensland. A 2015 native title determination recognised Mithaka people as the traditional owners of the region.

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