Peter Read

Peter Read has worked extensively as a historian of Aboriginal Australia, especially in the Northern Territory and NSW.

In 1980 Peter founded, with Oomera (Coral) Edwards, the organisation LinkUP (now Link-Up Stolen Generations (NSW)). He worked with the organisation as field-worker for three years, and since 1984 has been its Public Officer.

He works with the Aboriginal historian Jackie Huggins in the Indigenous oral history project 'Seven years on', sponsored by the Oral History program of the National Library of Australia. From 1995 this project created a base-group of seventy five young Aboriginal leaders to whom we return, every seven years, for a further interview. Jackie and Peter are also currently interviewing all the members of the Reconciliation Council 1990-2000.

He is the Chairperson of the ANU Journal of Aboriginal History.

Outside Australia he has interests in Cuba and in the Mapuche Indigenous people of Chile.

His supervisory interests in post-graduate research include Aboriginal history generally, child removal policy and practice, public and heritage history, oral history and area studies.