Anne Maree Payne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Maree Payne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Maree |
| FAMILY NAME | Payne |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNE A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2273-0253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Truth
The year 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the commencement of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. The Inquiry and its final report, Bringing Them Home , highlighted the traumatic impact and nationwide extent of child removal practices implemented across Australia over more than a century. Calling on deeply personal testimo…
Coming to terms with the past? Aboriginal history and the Great Australian Unknowing
Despite significant public discourse and the volume of scholarship produced by the Aboriginal history field over more than half a century, ‘coming to terms with the past’ in settler colonial contexts remains an enduring challenge. Reflecting on the emergence of the field of Aboriginal history in Australia, this article provides a brief contextual overview of what is referred to as ‘Aboriginal history’ and the contestation of this body of work tha…
From The heart
Never again'? Resonances of the past in contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child removal
Kevin Rudd's 2007 Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples acknowledged the devastating impact of child removal on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities and included a commitment that 'the injustices of the past must never, never happen again' (Parliament of Australia 2008). Today however, while First Nations children comprise 6% of the total child population in Australia, they make up 41% of children in out-of-home care…
Truth-telling, Ancestral Remains and the Establishment of a National Resting Place in Australia
∞ This article explores the potential for truth-telling and healing created by the recently announced National Resting Place for Indigenous Ancestral Remains in Australia. The return of Indigenous Ancestral Remains provides the opportunity to make redress for past wrongs, and to reflect on the attitudes which informed the dehumanizing practices of their past collection and display. Indigenous Ancestral Remains are critical to truth-telling in Aus…
Asserting Aboriginal polity and nationhood
Mapping the history of the repatriation movement in Australia, this article will argue that the movement to repatriate Ancestral Remains was an expression of Aboriginal nation-building and self-determination. Indigenous remains were collected in Australia over at least 180 years in the name of discovery, in the purported interest of science and anthropology, as 'trophies of empire' or as 'curios' of a supposedly 'dying race'. The demand for the r…
Nowhere Else but Home
This article addresses the establishment of the National Resting Place, a new Australian cultural institution designed to perform a vital role in the care of Ancestral Remains. Exploring the history of why there are, and have been, many thousands of Ancestral Remains in Australia that need to be repatriated, reburied or cared for as a community determines, this article demonstrates the physical and cultural harm caused to Indigenous people throug…
Stolen Motherhood
The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. However, the voices of Indigenous parents were largely missing from the Report. The Inquiry attributed their lack of testimony to the impact of trauma and the silencing impact of parents’ overwhelming sense of guilt and despair; a submission by Link-Up NSW commented on Aboriginal…
NEW Preface
Motherhood and human rights violations
The removal of Aboriginal children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the publication of the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. Notably absent from this report, however, were first-hand accounts of the experiences of Indigenous parents, particularly of mothers, who were often the primary carers or sole parents of removed Indigenous children. This article explores whether the right to mother is adequately protecte…
Education is as important for me as water is to sustaining life’
Progress in education in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban has been described as ‘fragile, limited in reach, depth and uncertainty of sustainability' [UNICEF. 2013 UNICEF. 2013. Annual Report – Afghanistan. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. http://www.unicef.org/about/annualreport/files/Afghanistan_COAR_2013.pdf. [Google Scholar]. Basic Education and Gender Equality: Afghanistan. United Nations International Children…
Education is as important for me as water is to sustaining life’
Progress in education in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban has been described as ‘fragile, limited in reach, depth and uncertainty of sustainability' [UNICEF. 2013 UNICEF. 2013. Annual Report – Afghanistan. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. http://www.unicef.org/about/annualreport/files/Afghanistan_COAR_2013.pdf. [Google Scholar]. Basic Education and Gender Equality: Afghanistan. United Nations International Children…
From The heart
Nowhere Else but Home
This article addresses the establishment of the National Resting Place, a new Australian cultural institution designed to perform a vital role in the care of Ancestral Remains. Exploring the history of why there are, and have been, many thousands of Ancestral Remains in Australia that need to be repatriated, reburied or cared for as a community determines, this article demonstrates the physical and cultural harm caused to Indigenous people throug…
Education is as important for me as water is to sustaining life’
Progress in education in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban has been described as ‘fragile, limited in reach, depth and uncertainty of sustainability' [UNICEF. 2013 UNICEF. 2013. Annual Report – Afghanistan. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. http://www.unicef.org/about/annualreport/files/Afghanistan_COAR_2013.pdf. [Google Scholar]. Basic Education and Gender Equality: Afghanistan. United Nations International Children…
Motherhood and human rights violations
The removal of Aboriginal children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the publication of the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. Notably absent from this report, however, were first-hand accounts of the experiences of Indigenous parents, particularly of mothers, who were often the primary carers or sole parents of removed Indigenous children. This article explores whether the right to mother is adequately protecte…
NEW Preface
Stolen Motherhood
The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. However, the voices of Indigenous parents were largely missing from the Report. The Inquiry attributed their lack of testimony to the impact of trauma and the silencing impact of parents’ overwhelming sense of guilt and despair; a submission by Link-Up NSW commented on Aboriginal…
Nowhere Else but Home
This article addresses the establishment of the National Resting Place, a new Australian cultural institution designed to perform a vital role in the care of Ancestral Remains. Exploring the history of why there are, and have been, many thousands of Ancestral Remains in Australia that need to be repatriated, reburied or cared for as a community determines, this article demonstrates the physical and cultural harm caused to Indigenous people throug…
Truth-telling, Ancestral Remains and the Establishment of a National Resting Place in Australia
∞ This article explores the potential for truth-telling and healing created by the recently announced National Resting Place for Indigenous Ancestral Remains in Australia. The return of Indigenous Ancestral Remains provides the opportunity to make redress for past wrongs, and to reflect on the attitudes which informed the dehumanizing practices of their past collection and display. Indigenous Ancestral Remains are critical to truth-telling in Aus…
Asserting Aboriginal polity and nationhood
Mapping the history of the repatriation movement in Australia, this article will argue that the movement to repatriate Ancestral Remains was an expression of Aboriginal nation-building and self-determination. Indigenous remains were collected in Australia over at least 180 years in the name of discovery, in the purported interest of science and anthropology, as 'trophies of empire' or as 'curios' of a supposedly 'dying race'. The demand for the r…
Never again'? Resonances of the past in contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child removal
Kevin Rudd's 2007 Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples acknowledged the devastating impact of child removal on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities and included a commitment that 'the injustices of the past must never, never happen again' (Parliament of Australia 2008). Today however, while First Nations children comprise 6% of the total child population in Australia, they make up 41% of children in out-of-home care…
Coming to terms with the past? Aboriginal history and the Great Australian Unknowing
Despite significant public discourse and the volume of scholarship produced by the Aboriginal history field over more than half a century, ‘coming to terms with the past’ in settler colonial contexts remains an enduring challenge. Reflecting on the emergence of the field of Aboriginal history in Australia, this article provides a brief contextual overview of what is referred to as ‘Aboriginal history’ and the contestation of this body of work tha…
From The heart
The Politics of Truth
The year 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the commencement of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. The Inquiry and its final report, Bringing Them Home , highlighted the traumatic impact and nationwide extent of child removal practices implemented across Australia over more than a century. Calling on deeply personal testimo…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · History (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works)