Aboriginal dispossession
Articles
- The Dark Side of the Dreaming: Aboriginality and Australian Culture
There is clearly a new upsurge of comment on and interest in Aboriginal Australian culture, an interest manifested by the reissue of a number of…
1 October 1992 - Walter Murdoch : ‘A Humble Protest’?
WALTER Murdoch, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia for thirty years and once Australia's best known essayist, has been typecast as a…
1 October 1993 - Rereading David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter: The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering
The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War…
1 May 2009 - Maang: Bagaan Di (a Message for My Elder Sister)
I was a young, impressionable Aboriginal Australian when I first saw her; she was stating her view on television, cleverly honing her point with flashing…
1 November 1994 - Review of The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870, by Anna Johnston
In her new book, Anna Johnson investigates how the exchange of ideas from the late eighteenth century between the Antipodes and the British Empire were…
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