Sam Horsfield is a non-Indigenous PhD student supervised within the Moondani Balluk Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit. Sam’s thesis documents and analyses the Australian government’s detention and deportation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘non-citizens’ under the Migration Act. She is working closely with two families whose members have been affected by the government’s actions. Prior to starting her PhD research, Sam was an administrative lawyer at Victoria Legal Aid, and a consultant assisting community organisations and statutory authorities to implement social reform projects.
Gayle Carr is a non-Indigenous PhD student studying within Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Unit. She has a background in education and community organising. Gayle’s thesis explores the ways a small group of colonial descendants remember their ancestor’s involvement in the 1842 massacre of Gunditjmara women and children on Country/Victoria’s Western District as part of their family history. The project ultimately seeks to understand what happens when colonial memory is provoked to imagine and recognize the impact of this history when history is close to home.
