Anna Haebich

Who is Anna Haebich?

Anna Haebich is an Australian writer and academic. She is John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University. She has been the foundation Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University.

She is Vice President of the Council of the Australian Academy of Humanities and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and member of the AIATSIS Research Advisory Committee.

The publication Broken Circles published in 2000 by Fremantle Press won many awards.

Haebich is one of a group of writers who have had to unravel the Moore River Settlement history, and the legacy of A.O. Neville on generations of indigenous Australians. Susan Maushart, Rosemary van der Berg, Jack Davis, and Doris Pilkington.