Fred Cahir is Associate Professor in Aboriginal history at Federation University Australia, Ballarat. Fred’s masters and PhD research focused on local Victorian Aboriginal history. His PhD thesis, ‘Black gold: the role of Aboriginal people on the gold fields of Victoria’, was awarded the Australian Historical Association’s 2008 Alan Martin Award and was subsequently published by Aboriginal History Inc. and ANU Press. Fred’s latest co-edited books include The children of the Port Phillip Protectorate (2016) and Aboriginal bio-cultural knowledge in southeastern Australia (2018). In 2019 he published ‘My country all gone. The white men have stolen it’: The invasion of Wadawurrung country 1800–1870.
Author email: f.cahir@federation.edu.au
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