McGregor, Russell (2017) Book review of "Making a Difference: fifty years of Indigenous programs at Monash University" by Rani Kerin. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Monash University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-9253-7724-8. Aboriginal History, 41. pp. 217-218.

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[Extract] Rani Kerin recounts the story of Australia's oldest university unit devoted to research into contemporary Aboriginal issues. Founded by political scientist Colin Tatz at Monash University in 1964, the Centre for Research into Aboriginal Affairs (CRAA) has since undergone innumerable name changes, overhauls, physical moves, faculty moves, crises, contractions and expansions. It still survives. Indeed, it thrives, now under the name Monash Indigenous Studies Centre (it was the Monash Indigenous Centre when the research for this book was completed). There is also an associated support unit, the Yulendj Indigenous Engagement Unit, to which Kerin devotes part of her text, although her main focus is the CRAA in its various iterations.

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