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Pages and Perspectives: Charles Washing and Racist Furniture

This is a fascinating history of Charles Washing, his family and furniture business. It’s fiction based on fact. It traces the plight of his parents, a full blood Chinaman and English Jewess mother in the 1850s, escaping their respective homelands and settling in Ararat, Victoria.

They raised 10 kids against the odds, moving to Creswick and Melbourne before settling in Perth and establishing Washing Brothers Furniture Factory. 

Jeff Bullen chats with author David Kennedy about the incredible story of Charles Washing.

 

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