Ann McGrathAnn McGrath is an Associate Professor in the School of History at the University of NSW where she is also Director of the Centre for Community History. She has published extensively on the history of Australian colonialism. 'Born in the Cattle': Aborgines in Cattle Country (Allen & Unwin 1987) won the inaugural W.K. Hancock Prize while her co-authored Creating a Nation (McPhee Gribble/Penguin 1994) won the 1994 Human Rights Award for non-fiction. Her most recent book is an edited general history, Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown (Allen & Unwin 1995). Ann worked on numerous Aboriginal land claims in the Northern Territory and ran the National History Project of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Custody. She was President of the Interim Management Committee of the History Council of NSW. Read More Read Less