From the University of Queensland: The long-lost works of one of Australia’s leading early anthropologists have been discovered in the shed of a northern New South Wales cattleman. The groundbreaking works of Caroline Tennant-Kelly, close friend of the famed American anthropologist Margaret Mead, were believed destroyed until uncovered by the detective work of a dogged […]

I recently came across Carolyn Lake’s review of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, and found it interesting. As she writes in her article “Colonial Nation”: Although Drover is at home on the land, Sarah is not. The character of Neil Fletcher reminds us of this when he remarks on Sarah’s arrival in Darwin: “She won’t last, a delicate English […]

K. N. Gulson and R. J. Parkes, “From the barrel of the gun: policy incursions, land, and Aboriginal peoples in Australia” Environment and Planning 42(2), 2010, 300 – 313. Abstract: This paper focuses on the enduring traces of colonialism within the Australian nation-state and the ongoing challenges to Aboriginal peoples’ rights, especially land rights. We try to […]

Richard Broome, author of the survey history Aboriginal Australians, has recently released a new and updated version for Allen and Unwin Press, featuring coverage right up to the Intervention, and engagement with more recent scholars. In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew […]