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'The author has bravely and thoroughly tackled a group of very embarrassing and difficult topics. Embarrassing, because we do not like to admit that Australians could ever have been as non-egalitarian, nor as racist, as she shows them to be. Difficult, because most of the evidence must come from official documents, which reflect official, that is, ‘settler’ attitudes, rather than the painful experiences of the young kin, servants and ‘slaves’ who had no opportunity to recount their own tales. Rarely can we detect the authentic voices of the little ten-year-olds who scrubbed and dug and weeded and washed under guise of being taught to become useful members of society.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 2 2003 Z1098809 2003 periodical issue

    'The publication of this issue of the AIATSIS journal, the second for 2003, brings us back to the schedule of issues distributed at mid-year and at the end of each year. This was not intended as a thematic volume, but we are able to present a series of major articles and one research report relating to the topic of Indigenous health, including use of bush foods and medicines. These are introduced by Research Fellow—Health, Dr Graham Henderson, who explores the interrelatedness of these contributions.' (Editorial introduction)

         2003     pg. 115-116
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