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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]

Reviews the book 'Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886-1888,' by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth.

Sutton and Walshe posit that the attempt by Pascoe to squeeze Aboriginal subsistence systems 'into a European model of economic life ... is I Dark Emu i "s most fundamental flaw" (14). Although my archaeological research at Moyjil casts doubt on its classification as an archaeological site (as pointed out by Sutton and Walshe), it is a little unfair to criticise Pascoe on this point given that my results were published in 2018, the same year that the second edition of I Dark Emu i was released. Sutton and Walshe suggest that Pascoe presents something of a straw person in I Dark Emu i with his suggestion that most people see traditional Aboriginal people as "mere hunter-gatherers". [Extracted from the article]

It is through the globalised phenomenon of the military campaign that Hutchinson locates the ways in which imperialism fermented local settler colonial identity. Settlers, War and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1869-1902: By Sam Hutchinson. Citing over eighty newspapers and magazines across Australia, New Zealand and Britain, Hutchinson has drawn together a deeply researched and broadly sourced study of the settler colonial and metropolitan press. [Extracted from the article]

Drawing upon her decades of extensive experience living and working across Borneo, Helliwell also helps orientate the reader into some of the cross-cultural challenges faced by Semut operatives. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, Helliwell challenges mainstream wartime histories claiming that Semut was an ineffectual sideshow to the Pacific campaign. Told from both Allied and Dayak intimate perspectives, Helliwell's sensitive approach provides insightful glimpses not only into the rigours of operating far behind enemy lines, but into the hidden world of Borneo's Indigenous tribes. [Extracted from the article]

Whitlam was officially Kerr's adviser under Australia's system of responsible government but Kerr invited Charteris to usurp that role. Kelly and Bramston are very likely right that Kerr did not need any advice from Charteris on such matters to contemplate using them against Whitlam. The Palace Letters and The Truth of the Palace Letters: The Palace Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam By Jenny Hocking. [Extracted from the article]

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums Through Oceanic Lenses AND Te Papa to Berlin: The Making of Two Museums: Te Papa to Berlin. He interviews cultural specialists at the museum, Kamalu du Preez and Marques Hanalei Marzan, and then interprets their fascinating insights and responses to the collections drawing on his museum language. Gorbey and Schorch are clearly very personable, and their love of museums comes through in all the projects they work on. [Extracted from the article]

Throughout the book, Minchinton identifies and dispels harmful depictions of sex workers and madams that featured in newspaper articles nearly always written by men. The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne: By Barbara Minchinton. Considering current debates about repealing laws that regulate sex work, Barbara Minchinton's I The Women of Little Lon i is a particularly timely account that shines the spotlight on some of the very women who have worked in the highly scrutinised industry. [Extracted from the article]

Even when they draw in Rio Tinto's mining expertise, the Australians are derided by the "real" diamond industry. There are clear "goodies" and "baddies" here as Kells delivers what amounts to an "origin myth" for the Australian diamond industry based on individual geologists and miners. Kells expertly explains how minuscule the chances are of finding diamonds in such a landscape, far less delivering commercial viability. [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]

Chapter eight explores the federal government response to the southern outcry about the killings, following the acquittal of the Aboriginal prisoners charged with murdering Brooks. Taking Aboriginal accounts into consideration and reviewing both the evidence and the absences in the official record concerning Murray's movements during his two punitive expeditions, Bradley concludes that the territory Murray covered was more extensive than officially acknowledged. Bradley's analysis is a significant intervention, seriously challenging the official record concerning the total number of Aboriginal victims in the massacre and the finding that Murray and his men had killed the people in self-defence. [Extracted from the article]

The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend: By Matthew Haultain-Gall. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2021. I The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend i , by Matthew Haultain-Gall, is one such study. As historians look around for future directions in Anzac history, one option is to explore that necessary corollary of remembering: forgetting - how the occlusions of memory, as much as its inclusion, contribute to the Anzac legend. [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]

The article reviews the book "The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture and Power in Colonial New South Wales," by Anna Johnston.

The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre: Edited by Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski. Stuart's work on the history of the social sciences is set out by Tim Rowse, the constitution by Carolyn Holbrook and the History Wars by Anna Clark. Stuart also engaged with other historians, particularly the early national story tellers, and he was a notable collaborator on companions and collected histories - here there are affectionate memoirs from colleagues Alison Bashford and Graeme Davison. [Extracted from the article]

First, this case study of the Anindilyakwa-speaking people of Groote Eylant takes up the critique of narratives of modernisation, particularly the "evangelical script" of literacy, conversion and civilisation that suggests Indigenous societies emerge out of orality and cast aside traditions when they encounter the power of literacy. Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire: Edited by Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla. Laura Rademaker's chapter, 'Going off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies', acknowledges and draws on a tradition of Australian research that documents the long Aboriginal tradition of using writing to demand rights. [Extracted from the article]

Taking stock of this vast and still-growing historiography, Fiona Paisley and Pamela Scully offer readers a timely set of reflections on the uses of such history in their book I Writing Transnational History i . In chapter two, Paisley and Scully review the recent historiography of settler colonialism. Writing Transnational History: By Fiona Paisley and Pamela Scully. [Extracted from the article]

I Shooting the Picture i is an outcome of an Australian Research Council-funded Linkage research project conducted by the Walkley Foundation, the National Library of Australia and a group of scholars led by Fay Anderson and Sally Young. In addition to further visual analysis of images, the understanding of the unique communication power of press photography would be further enhanced by a more detailed exploration of the manner in which images sit on the printed page. Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia: By Fay Anderson and Sally Young with Nikki Henningham. [Extracted from the article]

We are beginning to appreciate that here too the long-lasting frontier conflict was our most important war, fought for both sovereignty and the ownership and control of a whole continent. By the time the wars came to an end in 1872, O'Malley estimates that 'around 6,000 people had been killed or wounded, over two thirds of them Maori' (3). Until the 1960s it was common for our historians to overlook frontier war and compare our own First Nations with the Maori, the Bantu and the American Indians. [Extracted from the article]

Honouring a Nation: A History of Australia's Honours System: By Karen Fox. For this reader, the most interesting and insightful chapters were six, where Fox outlines the Whitlam government's campaign for an Australian honours system, and seven, which explores the fierce debates over the nature of the system from 1975 to 1990. Fox is more nuanced in her reading of the saga and places it in the longer context of Australia's messy use of honours to find an identity in a post-imperial world. [Extracted from the article]

As this bald summary would suggest, it is a book dominated by the powerful presence of Elliot Smith, who overshadows the other members of the trio, Wood Jones and Keith. Elliot Smith was the most vigorous proponent of such a lofty role for anatomy, and his position in London meant that he was in a position to wield his formidable political skills. He was struck, however, by how far the study of anatomy in the United States and the British Empire had diverged, with the United States no longer giving the scope to gross anatomy which had been so basic to British medical education. [Extracted from the article]

Although providing an example of the life experience relevant to some convicts, Miles' experience was not typical for the majority of convict women. Comprehensive administration records from the Van Diemen's Land penal system have enabled the creation of histories and life stories of convicts with a high level of detail and attention to their time within the system, particularly for those convicts who continued to misbehave. Building on her own extensive body of work and specialisation in historical population health, McCalman has reconstructed the lives of about 30,000 convicts. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Writing Party History: Papers From a Seminar Held at Parliament House, Sydney, May 2006.," edited by David Clune and Ken Turner.

While stating that he does not necessarily 'subscribe to the view that a publisher has a confidential relationship with an author' (148), Munro argues that 'if the publisher-author relationship is one of mutual trust and support, then Ryan clearly transgressed' (148). Doug Munro offers a restrained and reflective account of Peter Ryan's surprising, tasteless and relentless posthumous attack on the person and writings of Manning Clark. History Wars: The Peter Ryan - Manning Clark Controversy: By Doug Munro. [Extracted from the article]

The women broadcasters in Fisher's study were confident in their belief that they were educating Australian women on important issues. Where she does have access to audio recordings, Fisher's readings of them are careful and assured, and she is attentive to the ways historians can "hear" radio broadcasts through close reading of scripts and listener comments. Sound Citizens: Australian Women Broadcasters Claim Their Voice, 1923-1956: By Catherine Fisher. [Extracted from the article]

Nevertheless, Moon has done both Busby and us a service by rescuing him from historical marginalisation and providing a fuller portrait of the man whose efforts laid the groundwork for the Treaty. The Rise and Fall of James Busby: His Majesty's British Resident in New Zealand: By Paul Moon. From the beginning, Bourke missed no opportunity to undermine Busby, including siding with the pestiferous Additional Resident at Hokianga, Thomas McDonnell. [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]

In I Places of Reconciliation i , Sarah Pinto explores the possibilities and limitations of public art and commemorative naming under a reconciliation framework within a settler-colonial city (Melbourne). Places of Reconciliation: Commemorating Indigenous History in the Heart of Melbourne: By Sarah Pinto. Here Pinto also gives a helpful historical background to the colonisation of Narrm/Melbourne in the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. [Extracted from the article]

The authors intriguingly link kangaroo hunting to "a distinctly Australian experience" (74) demonstrated by the lively spirit of field sports and recreational pursuits originating from British hunting traditions. The book consists of six chapters which offer an expansive look at the history of kangaroo hunting as a compelling case to engage with issues concerning the status of native species during the process of settler expansion. Gelder and Weaver devote much of the chapter to exploring the ways in which shooting a kangaroo lays bare the ideas of boyhood and empire-building in adventure fiction and fantasy literature aimed at young readers. [Extracted from the article]