A finalist in the Australian of the Year Award, Professor Peter Read lectured for over 30 years in Aboriginal History at the Australian National University. The author of many innovative studies, he remains an Adjunct Professor at the ANU and is affiliated to the Australian Centre for Indigenous History. Professor Read first coined the term, ‘The Stolen Generation’. In 1980, he co founded Link-Up, a service that traces and reunites Indigenous families separated by past government policies