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'Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends. Everywhere he goes, he is asked the same questions: What can we do? How can we change the story? In The Urgency of Now, Stan weaves a story of history, memoir, politics, struggle, survival and hope. Expressing a cautious optimism, he wants to show us that there is something we can all do, that there is a path forward, a way towards true reconciliation. For Stan, the creation of the Australian nation and the repression of the indigenous people is integrally woven together...' (Publication summary)
The Life of Jimmy GovernorBill Gammage,
1979single work review — Appears in:
Aboriginal History,vol.
3no.
1-21979;(p. 163-164) — Review of
The Life of Jimmy GovernorBrian Davies,
1979single work biography Gammage notes that Brian Davies is a journalist, and The Life of Jimmy Governor is a journalist's book. The research is conscientious but stops once the story is told. This is a good story, with an awareness of the injustice with which white has treated black in Australia, but does not touch the deeper questions with which this treatment provokes...
The Life of Jimmy GovernorBill Gammage,
1979single work review — Appears in:
Aboriginal History,vol.
3no.
1-21979;(p. 163-164) — Review of
The Life of Jimmy GovernorBrian Davies,
1979single work biography Gammage notes that Brian Davies is a journalist, and The Life of Jimmy Governor is a journalist's book. The research is conscientious but stops once the story is told. This is a good story, with an awareness of the injustice with which white has treated black in Australia, but does not touch the deeper questions with which this treatment provokes...