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RACHEL PERKINS, STEPHEN GAPPS, MINA MURRAY and HENRY REYNOLDS (Eds) The Australian Wars. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

RACHEL PERKINS, STEPHEN GAPPS, MINA MURRAY and HENRY REYNOLDS (Eds) The Australian Wars. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 7 Apr 2026 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

The Australian Wars presents the confronting facts of white settlement, the massacres of First Nations Australians, and their resistance. This is a difficult book to read. Its subject matter is the killing of hundreds of thousands of First Nations people by Europeans...
DAVID PRICE The Shameful Isles. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

DAVID PRICE The Shameful Isles. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 6 Nov 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

David Price’s history of Western Australia’s lock hospitals and the ‘treatments’ meted out to Aboriginal people is shocking and important. There are large areas of our nation’s history that non-Indigenous Australians prefer not to think about, regarding them as merely...
DAVID MARR Killing for country: A family story. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

DAVID MARR Killing for country: A family story. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 2 Nov 2023 | Non-fiction | 2 comments

David Marr’s account of his ancestors’ involvement with the Native Police and the murder of Aboriginal people is distressing and important. Several years ago, one of David Marr’s older relatives informed him that his great-great-grandfather Reginald...
KATE FULLAGAR Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

KATE FULLAGAR Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 10 Oct 2023 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Kate Fullagar puts the lives of Wangal man Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip into a larger context beyond the brief years they spent together. What we regard as the modern history of Australia commenced with Britain establishing a colony in New South Wales in...
MEGAN DAVIS Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal; THOMAS MAYO and KERRY O’BRIEN The Voice to Parliament Handbook. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

MEGAN DAVIS Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal; THOMAS MAYO and KERRY O’BRIEN The Voice to Parliament Handbook. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 18 Jul 2023 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Two new books explore the issues behind the forthcoming referendum to create a Voice to Parliament for First Nations Australians. Later this year we will be asked to participate in a referendum to alter the Australian Constitution to include the following (Section...

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