by NRB | 29 Apr 2021 | Fiction |
Robert Horne’s novel reveals uncomfortable truths about the violence of colonial Australia. In September 1848, between nine and eleven Aboriginal people were murdered at Avenue Range Station in South Australia. However, Aboriginal Australians’ testimonies were...
by NRB | 15 Oct 2013 | Non-fiction |
History seen through a tent flap: this view of post-settlement Australia is ‘alive and itchy’. The act of camping strips us bare – quite literally, sometimes, when every piece of clothing is wet through and it is easier to simply offer unadorned skin to...
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