Seafaring: Canoeing Ancient Songlines
Reviewed onAboriginal Australians were master seafarers, master navigators, master astronomers – who possibly sailed as far as Hawaii. These are just some of Gumbaynggirr/Gamilaroi man Victor Briggs’ contentions which, once you’ve …
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The Red Witch
Reviewed onNathan Hobby’s comprehensive biography, The Red Witch, contextualises the life of Katherine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) within the personal, political and figurative spheres of twentieth-century Australia. Hobby’s perceptive insights reveal the …
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The author of this engaging memoir is, indeed, not always diplomatic. On the page she is funny, honest, thoughtful and sometimes mischievous. After over 30 years working in the diplomatic …
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The Edward Street Baby Farm
Reviewed onThe Edward Street Baby Farm is the fascinating account of a little-known aspect of Western Australian history. In 1907, Perth woman Alice Mitchell was arrested for the murder of a …
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Essentially, Many Maps explores the interaction between Western Australia’s First Nation peoples and their European colonisers. Across six chapters, and over 170 years, it ‘maps’ a history that draws upon …
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Under the Shade
Reviewed onIn Under the Shade, debut author Blake Innes interweaves stories of three key identities to create an intriguing, sometimes challenging meld of Indigenous Australian mythology and moving drama. One identity …
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Living on Stolen Land
Reviewed onDescribed as a ‘prose-style manifesto’, Ambelin Kwaymullina’s latest work reminds settler-colonial communities of the large debt we owe to our Indigenous past and how much has been lost and must …
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Father of the Lost Boys
Reviewed onFather of the Lost Boys is a difficult-to-put-down work of narrative non-fiction that tells the story of author Yuot Alaak’s heartrending journey from war-torn South Sudan to eventual refuge in …
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Goldfields Girl
Reviewed onBy modern standards life on the goldfields was tough but many men, firmly in the grip of gold fever and lured by the prospect of finding an easy fortune, were …
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Shadow Lines
Reviewed onThe reissuing by Fremantle Press of Stephen Kinnane’s award winning Shadow Lines is indeed a cause for celebration. Both a deeply researched archival investigation into the assimilationist policies of the …
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