Searching for the Real Secret River: The Dyarubbin Project

This talk is part of collaborative project exploring Aboriginal history, culture, stories and place names
on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River. See https://www.dyarubbin.com/

Professor Grace Karskens
Grace Karskens is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is interested in promoting historical understandings and awareness to wide audiences in her research areas of Australian colonial and cross-cultural history, Aboriginal history and environmental history. Her books include Inside the Rocks: The Archaeology of a Neighbourhood, the multi-award winning The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney and The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, which won the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for non-fiction. Grace’s latest book People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia was published by Allen & Unwin in 2020. At present she is working with Darug people on the collaborative Dyarubbin: The Real Secret River project, funded by the State Library of New South Wales’ Coral Thomas Fellowship.