by NRB | 29 Jun 2023 | Non-fiction |
Stan Grant remains committed to responding with love as he interrogates Whiteness in Australia and around the world. In The Queen is Dead Stan Grant uses the death of the person he calls ‘The White Queen’ as a springboard to discuss not only fundamental questions...
by NRB | 30 May 2023 | Non-fiction |
David Scrimgeour charts local successes and government failures for Aboriginal people in the Western Desert. While there has been a growing awareness over recent decades, it would still be reasonable to suggest that most non-Indigenous Australians have only limited...
by NRB | 30 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
In this book Henry Reynolds shows that today’s white activists for justice for Indigenous people are inheritors of a long tradition. Reynolds’s first book about Aboriginal and white relations, The Other Side of the Frontier, was published in 1981. For many people it...
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