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Raewyn comes from a family linking the Melbourne professional bourgeoisie with rural settlers.  Her Irish, Scots and Welsh ancestors were part of the nineteenth-century British colonization of Aboriginal lands in south-eastern Australia.  Born in 1944, Raewyn grew up during the Cold War, mainly in Sydney, where she went to Dee Why Public School, then Manly and North Sydney High Schools.

Raewyn took a BA Hons degree at University of Melbourne and a PhD at the University of Sydney.  She was active in the student movement and New Left of the 1960s, and then became a university teacher and researcher. 

Raewyn's partner, Pam Benton, was an activist in the women's movement, a psychologist, a social researcher, a writer, and a public servant.  Pam was one of the founders of the Older Women's Network in Australia, shared in setting up the first women's health centre in South Australia, and helped develop Equal Opportunity policy machinery in New South Wales.

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