Historiography of Aboriginal Queensland Nurses and Midwives 1890s-1950s

该项目旨在调查19世纪90年代至50年代昆士兰土著妇女的历史，这些妇女接受过护士或助产士的培训，反驳了现有的假设，即第一民族妇女无法接受教育和就业，“只是家仆”。该项目的预期成果包括在澳大利亚历史领域产生新知识，并建立跨文化、跨学科和社区能力，以研究19世纪末和20世纪初澳大利亚土著妇女的创新历史。对于土著社区和国家来说，该项目的一个重大好处是对土著妇女参与受过教育、有报酬的劳动力有了新的认识。

This project aims to investigate the histories of Aboriginal Queensland women who trained as nurses or midwives from the 1890s - 1950s, countering existing assumptions that First Nations women could not access education and employment and were 'just domestics'. Anticipated outcomes of this project include the generation of new knowledge in the field of Australian history, and the creation of cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary and community capacity to research innovative histories of Aboriginal women in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia. For Aboriginal communities and the nation, a significant benefit expected from the project is a new understanding of Aboriginal women’s participation in the educated, paid workforce.