Aboriginal dispossession
Articles
- The Dark Side of the Dreaming: Aboriginality and Australian Culture1 October 1992
- Walter Murdoch : ‘A Humble Protest’?
WALTER Murdoch, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia for thirty years and once Australia's best known essayist, has been typecast as a conservative and an imperialist. Nevertheless, his essay 'A Humble Protest' takes up and disputes the…
1 October 1993 - Rereading David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter : The Great War, Aboriginal Dispossession, and the Politics of Remembering
The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War and the formation of Australian identity and, on the other hand, Aboriginal narratives of dispossession…
1 May 2009 - Maang: Bagaan Di (a Message for My Elder Sister)
I was a young, impressionable Aboriginal Australian when I first saw her; she was stating her view on television, cleverly honing her point with flashing white teeth which contrasted against her dark skin. What a wit! It was May 1964…
1 November 1994