xvii, 269 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps. ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents
Introduction. Looking for Blackfellas' Point I -- Looking for Blackfellas' Point II. Part I: Discussion. 1. 'Without treaty, bargain or apology' -- 'Quietly, the Aborigines submitted' -- 2. Did the NSW Government and the Colonial Office intend that the rights of Aboriginal people in south-eastern New South Wales be protected? -- 'What might have been'. Part II: Forgetting. 3. 'A cult of disremembering'? -- 'This wonderful invasion' -- 4. Emily's story -- Making settler history. Part III: Abandonment. 5. The architecture of grace -- 'Waiting for civilisation - longing for home' -- 6. Agent of civilisation -- 'This black mother earth': the journals of Oswald Brierly -- 7. 'Victims of singular neglect' -- Waiting for Eden. Part IV: Confrontation. 8. New history, new politics -- 'We are all one': Aboriginal people in Eden-Monaro, 1860-1960 -- 9. 'Friendly but firm discrimination': the fight for Aboriginal housing in Bega, 1960-1970 -- 10. Raising a different flag: the struggle for Aboriginal rights in south-eastern New South Wales in the 1970s -- 11. 'A very hurting thing': apologising for history. Conclusion. Looking for Blackfella's Point III
Summary
Blackfella's Point lies on the Towamba River in south-eastern New South Wales. This work is a history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia's relations with indigenous people, what happened between them, and how they came to confront the truth about their past
Analysis
Ethnic relations
History
All Australian Indigenous Material
Biography & autobiography (Australia)
New South Wales
Aborigines
Social conditions
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy
Race relations
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 261-264
Notes
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library