Catherine Guinness

Catherine Guinness was born in England of Irish and English ancestry with connections to the Guinness family line in Ireland. Her family migrated to Sydney, where she completed a science degree. She worked on racial equality with West Indian communities in England and, back in Australia, has worked extensively with Aboriginal communities, especially on adult education, and with women and refugees. She is the author of Rubber Justice, which chronicles her grandfather’s humanitarian work in the Congo, and A Haunting Silence, which seeks the truth about her great grandfather, a landowner in Tasmania at the time of the Black War.