Deserved award

Today is Australia Day and more than a thousand fellow citizens have received awards for their service to the community. Among those honored is Professor Anna Elizabeth Haebich, who lives in Western Australia. But she was born in Queensland in 1949 and is married to a member of the First Nations who is also a scion of a famous soccer family. Anna Haebich's literary and academic interest also includes the problems of the indigenous people and she has written an important book about the treatment of Aborigines under the title 'For your own good.' Anna Haebich is proud of her German roots, because someone with the name Häbich must come from southern Germany. And that's the way it is here. We congratulate Mrs. Haebich to her Order of Australia.

Darryl Kickett and Anna Haebich im Dryandra National Park, nahe Narrogin, WA