History

W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,' regarding the fate of the Aborigines, for which he coined the phrase 'the great Australian silence'. And in his essay 'Durmugam' he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior's attempt to hold back cultural change. ?He was such a man,' Stanner wrote. 'I thought I would like to make the reading world see and feel him as I did.'

General account of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations since initial settlement; Aboriginal reaction to government policies; readings include descriptions of Aboriginal resistance, political agitation and settler attitudes to Aborigines

Indigenous histories not only challenge the content of conventional national and colonial histories inasmuch as they tell a different story, but they also challenge the nature of history itself.

First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.

When four young Indigenous activists arrived on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra on Australia Day, in 1972, they had little idea that their small protest would fast become a defining moment in the country's modern history.

"A Northern Town looks at how some of the residents of Kempsey - known as the "most racist town in Australia" - are experiencing the living history of their hometown. The aged care facility of Booroongen is owned and operated by Kempsey's indigenous townsfolk. Its residents are Aboriginal and white - old activists living with old racists. A Northern Town reveals a history of covered up massacres, Aboriginal people who were herded onto missions, a segregated hospital, a segregated swimming pool and segregated cinemas."