Christine Owen

Christine Owen’s academic work at ANU, Melbourne University and Murdoch University was on literature, history and writing. Her research on the rise of female individualism was published as The Female Crusoe (2010). She was an anti-nuclear activist in the 80s and a regular contributor to The Fremantle Shipping News, edited by Hon Michael Barker KC.

Recent articles by Christine Owen

We are the custodians of the future, you and I

We are the custodians of the future, you and I

In the 1990s, in an Aboriginal community near Alice Springs a young boy, aged about nine, and I stood looking at some soft, waving, light-filled spinifex, seemingly floating over the deep red earth. See? he said. I shook my head. I was blind to the possibilities right in front of me.

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