by NRB | 20 Apr 2023 | Non-fiction |
Julianne Schultz finds difficult truths – and some hope – in her examination of the Australian psyche. Is it a good thing to be racist? For one group of people to believe they are superior to others and to act accordingly in the name of creating a ‘perfect society’?...
by NRB | 16 Jun 2022 | Non-fiction |
Deidre O’Connell recounts how an American jazz band caused panic in White Australia. In the latter part of the 1920s, the JC Williamson Company was on the lookout for American talent to attract patrons to vaudeville shows at their Tivoli Theatres. One of the...
by NRB | 14 May 2020 | Non-fiction |
The anti-apartheid movement in Australia had more of an impact on policies at home than is usually recognised. In his prologue Roger Bell refers to his childhood in country New South Wales where Aborigines lived ‘on the fringes of town’; something akin to the...