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Keith Vincent Smith | |
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| Born | Keith Vincent Smith Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia |
| Alma mater | Macquarie University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, historian, journalist |
Dr Keith Vincent Smith is an Australian writer, historian and journalist. He has become a notable specialist on early Sydney and Indigenous Australians of the Sydney area, including the lives of the Eora peoples, Bungaree, and Bennelong.
Keith Vincent Smith was born in Dee Why, on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. [1]
As a journalist, Keith Smith worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian and was a correspondent for Australian Associated Press in London, Saigon and Sydney. He was a correspondent covering the Vietnam War. [1] [2]
As a mature student, studying progressively for first, masters, and doctorate degrees at Macquarie University, Smith developed a strong interest in early colonial Sydney and the inhabitants of the area before British colonisation. [3]
As senior researcher:
Episode 1, First Australians, Blackfella Films, dir. Rachel Perkins, originally broadcast on SBS in 2009. [3]
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The Eora are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. Eora is the name given by the earliest European settlers to a group of Aboriginal people belonging to the clans along the coastal area of what is now known as the Sydney basin, in New South Wales, Australia. The Eora share a language with the Darug people, whose traditional lands lie further inland, to the west of the Eora.
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