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Passionate Histories
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Part One:  Massacres

  • The country has another past: Queensland and the History Wars
  • 'Hard evidence': the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania
  • Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted - Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia
  • Part Two:  Myths

  • Remembering the referendum with compassion
  • Idle men: the eighteenth-century roots of the Indigenous indolence myth
  • 'These unoffending people': myth, history and the idea of Aboriginal resistance in David Collins' Account of the English Colony in New South Wales
  • Demythologising Flynn, with Love: contesting missionaries in Central Australia in the twentieth century
  • Part Three:  Memory and Oral History

  • Paul Robeson's visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960
  • Using poetry to capture the Aboriginal voice in oral history transcripts
  • Part Four:  Identity, Myth and Memory

  • Making a debut: myths, memories and mimesis
  • Identity and identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos
  • Urban Aboriginal ceremony: when seeing is not believing
  • Island Home Country: working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania
  • Part Five:  The Stolen Generations

  • Reconciliation without history: state crime and state punishment in Chile and Australia
  • Overheard - conversations of a museum curator
  • On the significance of saying 'sorry': Apology and reconciliation in Australia
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