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Interview with Deborah Ruiz Wall – Reimagining Australia
Deborah Ruiz Wall (OAM) is a Filipino-Australian born in Manila who I met at Reimagining Australia, her exhibition at the WA Maritime Museum. The exhibition is based on her research on interactions between Filipino and Australia’s First Nations People. Before she migrated to Australia, Deborah worked as a journalist with the Philippine Broadcasting Service in 1970 and as Press Secretary for the Opposition Leader, Matthias Toliman and later for his successor,Tei Abal in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly in 1973. When she moved to Australia, she taught communication and social sciences TAFE (NSW). She completed oral history projects that included Redfern Oral History and story sharing between Aboriginal and Filipino…
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Maybe it’s Wanchai – AASRN
I’ve finalised my presentation for tomorrow’s symposium. I’m really excited about tomorrow and grateful that my proposal was accepted even though I’m no longer tethered to a university. I had a moment last week where I thought perhaps I should make Maybe It’s Wanchai? a PhD project but I’m too far along with the project. So the plan is to just write and hope that my partner does not lose his hours at work. I don’t have a mentor for this project so I will be relying on various friends. Don’t worry friends, I will not make you read entire chapters but I might ask you to read and give me feedback on…
