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Henry Reynolds
Henry Reynolds is an Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlers in Australia and Indigenous Australians. He was the first academic historian to advocate for Indigenous land rights, becoming known with his first major work, The Other Side of the Frontier (1981). (More on [Wikipedia]).
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North of Capricorn
Would the sordid past haunt her forever? Caroline had been abandoned as a child, but when a house was left to her in her father's will, she went to north Queensland to claim her inheritance. She didn't even know she had a past, let alone a questionable one. But Kiall Stirling knew otherwise. In his eyes, Caroline had been tarred with the same brush as her mother, whose only crime it seemed, was in loving a man...
Truth-Telling
Inspired by the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and its statement that sovereignty ‘has never been ceded or extinguished’, influential historian Henry Reynolds revisits the very premise of the settlement of Australia and challenges us to do the same. What if the sovereignty of Australia’s First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that ‘peaceful settlement’ was a fiction? Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from under legal and historical assumptions in a book that’s about the present as much as the past. Truth-Telling shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.
Frontier
This black and teal comic uncovers the mystery behind an unnamed mp3 file that was anonymously uploaded to the internet and is just 3 hours of an uninterrupted monotonous hum. The file, renamed to Sexcoven, sparked mass downloads by teenagers and was said to cause hallucinations and erratic behavior. Told as an visual investigative journalism piece from the perspective of an interviewer, artist Jillian Tamaki explores the aftermath of Sexcoven's rise to popularity and the community of people that moved to Joshua Tree to continue working on the project. -- Grace Li