Musquito’s life and death can be read through the lens of a history of invasion and resistance. Or of the difficulties of being placed between two worlds.
- Emeritus Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Nicolas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson’s new book suggests only Aboriginal people, and the misfits who cleave to them, can know the desert’s grim majesty.
Historian Katherine Biber invites us to see the lives, crimes and deaths of Jimmy and Joe Governor in the context of bigger national ambitions – and colonial racism.
Kate Grenville’s book successfully intertwines national and personal history to evoke Australia’s past – but multiculturalism challenges her idea of collective memory.
A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an illuminating Australia Day read.
The Yolngu Bark Petitions were immediately recognised by many as emblems of the unshakeable confidence of Indigenous Australians in their right to their territory.
Anthropologist Neville White has spent two months a year since 1974 in Arnhem Land, as a guest of Yolngu families residing at the Donydji community.
Tim Rowse concludes that Paul Daley’s new novel, inspired by true events in Arnhem Land, is fluent and skilfully paced – but doesn’t risk complicating the critical narrative of our colonial history.
Anna Clark’s latest work scrutinises the role History has played in nation building and the shaping of Australian culture, but her book has an absent philosophical centre.
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