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Minnie & Grace – the women who fed a scientific expedition

They say an army marches on its stomach. After all, someone’s got to feed the hungry foot-soldiers, right? And this is probably true for any expeditionary group, even an expedition in the name of science. So let’s meet the Indigenous Australian women who fed the scientific Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef in 1928-1929 – Grace Dabah and Minnie Connolly. Cultural warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised […]

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