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Enough! Australian Lawyers Call on Iran to Release Baha’i Seven

13/05/2016 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

On Wednesday night I attended an annual human rights event which I hope I never have to attend again. It marked yet another year during which Iran’s authorities have trampled on the human rights of its own people. The event in Sydney highlighted the unjust imprisonment of the seven leaders of Iran’s Baha’i community. Every year the anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of … [Read more...] about Enough! Australian Lawyers Call on Iran to Release Baha’i Seven

Refugees: Custodians of a Nation’s History

10/05/2016 by Yvonne Perkins 2 Comments

The people we share a train carriage with on the way to work, the hundreds we pass in a busy shopping centre, all these people carry a story within them. Each story is changing, developing and interlinked with others. Each story is a multi-faceted tile that helps to build the complex, mosaic of human life on this planet. Fortunately for us Brisbane resident, Manijeh Saatchi, … [Read more...] about Refugees: Custodians of a Nation’s History

The Prison Poet is Heard

14/05/2015 by Yvonne Perkins 3 Comments

I write if only to stir faint memories of flight in these wing-bound birds, to open the cage of the heart for a moment trapped without words. For how can one not faint for these women, beaten so brutally? How can one not fear for them, suffering such tyrannical cruelty. Mahvash Sabet, ‘The Perfume of Poetry’, Prison Poems, p. 32 A woman sits in her prison cell in Iran, poetry … [Read more...] about The Prison Poet is Heard

The Destruction of Memory

16/01/2015 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

The rebels had fled, but before they left they had destroyed a precious archive. The world gasped in dismay as the mayor of Timbuktu announced that a library recently built to hold Timbuktu’s historic manuscripts had burnt to the ground. At the time the Mayor did not know that while some historic manuscripts were now a pile of ashes, most had been saved. Yet these manuscripts … [Read more...] about The Destruction of Memory

WWI Soldier’s Daughter to Speak About Peace

20/09/2014 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

This Sunday in Sydney a human rights champion will be talking about her lifetime of work and how she was influenced in this work by her father, a veteran from World War I. If you are in Sydney tomorrow morning I encourage you to attend. Judy Hassall is the daughter of Archie Barwick whose wartime service has recently featured on the ABC television series, The War That Changed … [Read more...] about WWI Soldier’s Daughter to Speak About Peace

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Yvonne Perkins is a professional historian and launched Stumbling Through the Past in August 2010. Focusing on history, and Australian history in particular, posts include interviews, book reviews, news reports on conferences and reflective pieces.

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