Emma Dortins

Emma Dortins is a Sydney-based historian and cultural heritage practitioner. She was awarded a PhD in history by the University of Sydney in 2013. A member of the Professional Historians Association (NSW and ACT), she has worked as a consulting historian, tutored and lectured for the University of Sydney and University of New England, and is currently part of the Heritage Division of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.

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Three Aboriginal-Settler Friendships

Authored by: Emma Dortins
Publication date: December 2018
The Lives of Stories traces three stories of Aboriginal–settler friendships that intersect with the ways in which Australians remember founding national stories, build narratives for cultural revival, and work on reconciliation and self-determination. These three stories, which are still being told with creativity and commitment by storytellers today, are the story of James Morrill’s adoption by Birri-Gubba people and re-adoption 17 years later into the new colony of…