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First Nations History
The Passion of Private White (2023)
Watson, Don
The story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land—a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: that of the intensely driven anthropologist Neville White, and the world of hunter-gatherer clans in remote northern Australia with whom he has lived and worked for half a century, mapping their culture and history in breathtaking detail.
October 23, 2023
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First Nations History
The Queen is Dead (2023)
Grant, Stan
The Queen is Dead is a full-throated, impassioned argument on the necessity for an end to monarchy in Australia, the need for a Republic, and what needs to be done - through the Voice to Parliament and beyond - to address and redress the pain and sorrow and humiliations of the past. Momentous and timely, The Queen is Dead carries an urgent, undeniable and righteous demand for justice, for a reckoning, and a just settlement with First Nations people. Grant is the author of a number of other books, including Australia Day, Tears of Strangers, and Talking to My Country.
October 23, 2023
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The Remote Garrison: The British Army in Australia, 1788-1870 (1986)
Stanley, Peter
The history of the British army in Australia; from the arrival of the First Fleet to 1870 when the various Australian colonies started to take over their own defence.
October 27, 2023
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Frontier Wars
Queensland
The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police (2008)
Richards, Jonathan
Native Police detachments - mounted Aboriginal troopers led by white officers - would surround Aboriginal camps and fire into them at dawn, killing men, women and children. The bodies were often burned to destroy the evidence. Richards argues that the Native Police were a key part of a 'divide and rule' colonising tactic, that the force's actions were given the implicit approval of government and public servants, and that their killings were covered up and files ‘lost’.
August 21, 2023
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New South Wales
The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony, 1788-1817 (2018)
Gapps, Stephen
Tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians—described as ‘this constant sort of war’ by one early colonist—around the greater Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817.
September 14, 2023
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Tasmania
The Vandemonian War: The Secret History of Britain’s Tasmanian Invasion (2017)
Brodie, Nick
The Vandemonian War was fundamentally a war between the British colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) and those Tribespeople who lived in political and social contradiction to that colony. Brodie exposes the largely untold story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen’s Land deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed convicts and mercenaries. This was a war of sweeping campaigns and brutal tactics, waged by military and paramilitary forces subject to a Lieutenant Governor who was also Colonel Commanding.
August 21, 2023
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