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'Coniston, written for a popular audience, is a compelling read. The prologue portrays Central Australia during the 1920s as an alien environment for settlers, who were at the mercy of marauding Aborigines. The racial violence, exacerbated by drought, is said to have exploded with the so-called ‘Warramulla invasion’ that saw Aboriginal people kill Fred Brooks on Coniston Station, then attack other white men camped along the Lander River. Subsequently, Mounted Constable George Murray was appointed to investigate these attacks, which led to a series of expeditions that resulted in the killing of numbers of Aboriginal people. These events are now referred to as ‘the Coniston massacre’. An official inquiry into the slayings resulted in the finding that Murray and his men shot thirty-one Aboriginal people in self-defence. Noting that the war of the Warramullas was ‘a figment of a fevered white imagination’ (4), the author, Michael Bradley, is interested in getting to the truth of the situation: ‘why it happened’ and ‘how many died’. He asks, furthermore, why Coniston ‘is not part of the conversation’ about ‘Australia's graphic history of war and large-scale death’ (5).' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Historical Studies vol. 52 no. 3 2021 22528222 2021 periodical issue

    'This special issue of Australian Historical Studies brings together scholars whose work explores the political impact of the sexual and feminist revolutions in Australia. The articles illuminate the connections and divergences between the sexual and feminist revolutions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. They explore how and why these transnational movements had distinctive and transformative impacts in Australia, both expanding and narrowing ideas about sex, gender and sexuality. The articles also examine instances when questions of gender and sexuality have become sites of political contest, and the ways in which those contests intersected with other traditions and transformations in Australian political history.'  (Editorial introduction)

    2021
    pg. 453-455
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