A timely book that encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing from the multiplicity of shelters used in pre-invasion times to the extraordinary cottages built by Victorian missionaries through to the dreaded children's dormitory and the compound with its terrors of disease and overcrowding
Partial contents: Preliminary material - 1. Settlement : present and past - 2. Settlements of enclosure - 3. Settlement and government - 4. Unsettlement - 5. future settlement - Endmatter