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

该项目旨在调查19世纪90年代至1950年代接受护士或助产士培训的昆士兰州土著妇女的历史，反对现有的关于第一民族妇女不能获得教育和就业机会，“只是家庭主妇”的假设。该项目的预期成果包括在澳大利亚历史领域产生新的知识，并建立跨文化、跨学科和社区的能力，以研究十九世纪末和二十世纪初澳大利亚土著妇女的创新历史。对土著社区和国家来说，该项目的一个重大惠益是对土著妇女参与受过教育的有偿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.