Truth Telling Session with Ray Kerkhove at Mitchelton Library

Ray Kerkhove is a professional historian,
cultural researcher and writer who specialises
in the Aboriginal history and material culture of
southern Queensland. Ray authored the first
guidebook to the numerous Aboriginal camps
that flourished in and around Brisbane from
convict times to as late as the 1950s. Many of
Brisbane’s suburbs trace their names, parks
and key events to these former campsites.
Ray has decades of experience working with
Indigenous community groups on many
significant historical and cultural projects.
An Associate Professor (Adjunct) with the University of
Southern Queensland, Kerkhove twice served as
Historian-in-Residence, and twice as Visiting Fellow with
GriGith University. He has worked for over 40 years with
First Nations groups, reconstructing their site histories,
past lifestyles, and conflict sites.
Kerkhove’s research is extensively used within Museums,
Master Plans for towns and major developments, public
artworks, exhibitions, Council signage, and cultural
revitalisation projects such as his mapping that was
central to QUT Campus to Country – Positioning Strategy
(2020), which won the 2021 National Commendation for
Urban Design.

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