Between Colonial Archives and Indigenous Memory

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga woman and activist-poet from South Australia. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University with an interest in decolonising state archives. She engaged archival-poetic methods to research and document Aboriginal women’s domestic service and labour histories in SA, which resulted in her new work Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea. 

Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples, is currently leading the work for treaty/treaties in Queensland. She is a well-known historian and author, with articles published widely in Australia and internationally. Her acclaimed biography of her mother, Auntie Rita, was published in 1994, and the biography of her father, Jack of Hearts: QX11594, was published in 2022. 

Jo Case is a writer, editor and critic who lives in Adelaide. She is deputy editor, Books & Ideas at The Conversation and has worked in various roles in books and publishing, including as a publisher, festival programmer and literary editor. She is co-editor, with Clem Bastow, of Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers (UQP, 2025). Her memoir of autistic motherhood is Boomer and Me (Hardie Grant, 2013).