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'I read Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ in the week that a jury in Darwin found a police constable not guilty of murdering a Warlpiri teenager named Kumanjayi Walker. The constable, an ex-soldier, shot Walker three times, claiming that the boy resisted arrest. In 1928, as this book recounts, less than 100 kilometres from where Walker was killed, more than 60 Warlpiri and Anmatyerr men, women and children were killed by gangs led by police constable William Murray. Murray, an ex-soldier, claimed the victims had resisted arrest. A public enquiry into the deaths exonerated Murray and his fellow murderers.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 19 no. 2 2022 24775718 2022 periodical issue

    'In early 2022, we know that most readers yearn for a reprieve from living in ‘interesting times’. Under the cloud of a continuing pandemic, we have watched in horror as floods threaten so many fellow residents in Australia and as war wreaks havoc and worse in Ukraine. The editorial team as a whole extends its heartfelt sympathies to the current victims of climate change and of Vladimir Putin’s megalomania. On social media we have been at least gratified to share with followers the store of excellent articles we have published over 19 years on environmental disasters and the Ukrainian-Australian relationship.' (From the Editors : Introduction)

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