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The archipelago of us : a search for our identity in Australia's most remote territories / Reneé Pettitt-Schipp.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781760992224 (paperback)
Author	Pettitt-Schipp, Reneé (author)
Title	The archipelago of us : a search for our identity in Australia's most remote territories / Reneé Pettitt-Schipp.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	North Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2023.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2023.
Description	312 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-307)
Summary	A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia's complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there. Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Renee Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories of the asylum seekers she taught there in Australia's detention system. Why do the islands still have a hold on her? Why are her memories such troubled ones? And why can she not let go? Closer to Indonesia than Australia, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are out of sight and out of mind to most Australians, but they are the sites of some of our frontier wars, the places where our identity is laid bare in all its flawed complexity - and the places where there is time and space enough to ask- can we be better than this?
Subjects	Pettitt-Schipp, Reneé
	National characteristics, Australian
	Detention of persons -- Australia
	Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Call number	2023.154

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Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
A00965621	2023.154	General Collection		. Available to Museum Staff .