Gillian Dooley is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University. She is the co-editor of Matthew Flinders' Private Journal (2005), of the 2019 Wakefield Press anthology The First Wave: Exploring Early Coastal Contact History in Australia (with Danielle Clode), and (with Philippa Sandall) of Trim: The Cartographer's Cat (2019), a new authoritative edition of Flinders' Biographical Tribute. She also writes on authors including Jane Austen and Iris Murdoch.
Danielle Clode is the author of nine books on various aspects of Australia's environment and history. Killers in Eden (2002), later made into a TV documentary, documented the importance of Indigenous culture in the development of the unique hunting collaboration between the Twofold Bay killer whales and whalers. In 2007, Voyages to the South Seas, on French Pacific exploration, was awarded the Victorian Premier's Award for Nonfiction. Danielle has held several writing fellowships and her books have been shortlisted for the CBCA awards and commended for the Whitley Award. She is currently a senior research fellow at Flinders University.
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'The First Wave twines rich accounts of the past with a deep understanding of the country and cultures of particular Indigenous groups.' - Australian Book Review
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'While perhaps conventional in its intent, The First Wave is anything but conventional in its scope. It represents a sincere attempt to understand what did, could have, and might have happened as Aboriginal and European people strove to understand each other in ways that were at best partial, imperfect and fleeting.' - Heather Burke, Australian Historical Studies