Jane LydonProfessor Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australia's colonial past and its legacies in the present. Her books include Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenou Australians (Duke, 2005), Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Imperial Emotions: The politics of empathy across the British empire (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Most recently, she has published a study of the relationship between the abolition of British slavery and Australian colonisation Antislavery and Australia: No slavery in a free land? (Routledge, 2021). Read More Read Less