A White Hot Flame : Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice.

Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright and imprint information -- Contents -- List of maps -- Opening quotes -- Introduction -- Parents and Childhood -- 1. Parents: A pioneer Scots pastoralist and a London artist -- 2. Mimi's childhood: 'Queensland, our home'? -- Author to Activist -- 3. Mimi Christison: Art student and young English lady -- 4. Christison of Lammermoor: Romance burdened by reality -- 5. M. M. Bennett: Emerging activist -- The Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia -- 6. Learning about Western Australia: 'My eyes open and my mouth shut' -- 7. Mrs Bennett, teacher: Mount Margaret Mission -- 8. Commissioner Moseley and Chief Protector Neville -- 9. Disillusionment -- Belonging, Identity, Commitment -- 10. Dora and Gladys: Wartime London and a return to Australia -- 11. Families: Peter Pontara and Human Rights for Aborigines -- 12. The Wongatha people of Kalgoorlie -- 13. Final days -- Epilogue -- Image block -- Maps -- Map 1: Southern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania -- Map 2: Queensland and northern New South Wales -- Map 3: England and southern Scotland -- Map 4: Central and South Australia -- Map 5: South-west and west coast of Western Australia -- Map 6: Eastern goldfields of Western Australia -- End matter -- Acknowledgments -- Further reading -- Index -- Back cover.

Mary Montgomerie Bennett (18811961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal Australians had their citizens' rights curtailed by repressive state laws.

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