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Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart AND Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement: Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart By Megan Davis and George Williams. Megan Davis and George Williams explain how truth-telling came to be part of the Uluru Statement, while Henry Reynolds outlines what he sees as the historical truths that must be told and indicates where he thinks truth-telling processes might lead. In addition, George Williams is a barrister and newspaper columnist, while Megan Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman from southwest Queensland, was deeply involved in the processes leading towards the formulation of the Uluru Statement. [Extracted from the article]

Much is speculative - as Karskens explains, there is too little evidence to be otherwise - but where other authors have retreated because of the fear that they would be seen to be speaking I for i Aboriginal people, Karskens has taken up the challenge. People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia: By Grace Karskens. Karskens refuses to accept the assumption so widely made that Indigenous and settler cultures were incompatible and so displacement of Indigenous life was rapid and complete. [Extracted from the article]

Dino Hodge recently produced an interesting study of how Dunstan's personal beliefs and sexuality influenced his political life, but it was much more limited in scope than Woollacott's contribution. (xii-xiii) Dunstan's biographer, Angela Woollacott, set herself the task of rekindling the brightness of the light, and she succeeds admirably in this comprehensive biography of one of South Australia's - and the Australian Labor Party's - most progressive figures. Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician Who Changed Australia: By Angela Woollacott. [Extracted from the article]

This set of conversations clearly challenges the centrality of Vietnam even though Burgmann and Wheatley define the sixties as beginning in 1965 and ending in 1975. Burgmann and Wheatley don't simply interview their guests but rather create personalised discussions which add so much more to our understanding and enjoyment. Radicals: Remembering the Sixties: By Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley. [Extracted from the article]

While social histories of the war have hardly failed to note the significance of state power, Catherine Bond's study of the use of Australian law as an instrument in this process offers a precise means of studying the subject. Readers' responses to this moral intent may vary but many cases are certainly an apt reminder of the power wielded by law and the legal system. Buttressing the sense that the dynamics under review resonate beyond the war, the concluding chapter considers some of the war's legal legacies in Australian statutes, politics and lives. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the exhibition "Paddock Glyphs" at Australian Galleries Works on Paper in Sydney, New South Wales from April 17-May 4, 2008.