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Frontier Wars
Northern Territory
Return to Uluru (2021)
McKenna, Mark
One event in 1934—the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokununna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subsequent Commonwealth inquiry—stood out as a mirror of racial politics in the Northern Territory at the time. But then, through speaking with the families of both killer and victim, McKenna unearthed new evidence that transformed the historical record and the meaning of the event for today. As he explains, ‘Every thread of the story connected to the present in surprising ways.’ In a sequence of powerful revelations, McKenna explores what truth-telling and reconciliation look like in practice.
August 26, 2024
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First Nations History
Indigenous Affairs: Government
Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship (2018)
Joan Beaumont and Allison Cadzow, ed.
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman, Allison Cadzow, and others reveal the courage, resilience, and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia.
February 23, 2024
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Frontier Wars
Queensland
Seven Versions of an Australian Badland (2002)
Gibson, Ross
Travels in outback Queensland, covering among other things frontier genocide, race relations, murders, massacres, poisoning, and the role of the Native Police.
August 26, 2024
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Frontier Wars
Northern Territory
Simply the Survival of the Fittest: Aboriginal Administration in South Australia’s Northern Territory, 1863-1910 (1992)
Austin, Tony
Overview of the reaction of government authorities to Aborigines in the Northern Territory during the period 1863 to 1910, when the Territory was controlled by South Australia; what policy development there was is set in the context of how the government and white settlers viewed Aborigines; influence of social Darwinism on policy and attitudes; contact history and violent conflict on the frontier as Europeans attempted to realise the economic promises made by government; use of Aboriginal labour, policies on education and welfare.
October 23, 2023
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Frontier Wars
New South Wales
Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of the Colonial Apocalypse (2020)
Clayton-Dixon, Callum
The first people thrived on the New England Tableland since the first sunrise. But in the 1830s, squatters began invading the region with their plagues of livestock. Colonisation plunged Aboriginal society into utter chaos, driving us off our lands and decimating the traditional way of life. Our people's remarkable history of resistance and survival has faded into obscurity. It is their story which this book sets out to reclaim, co-opting the colonial archive and subverting the colonial narrative, deconstructing their story in order to uncover our own.
January 24, 2024
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Tasmania
Tasmanian Aborigines: A History since 1803 (2012)
Ryan, Lyndall
The story of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania … Far from disappearing, the Tasmanian Aborigines actively resisted settler colonialism from the outset and have consistently campaigned for their rights and recognition as a distinct people through to the present.
October 23, 2023
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