Timothy Bottoms Timothy Bottoms i(8037695 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Australian
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1 [Review] The Last Man : A British Genocide in Tasmania Timothy Bottoms , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 39 no. 3 2015; (p. 435-437)

— Review of The Last Man : A British Genocide in Tasmania Tom Lawson , 2014 multi chapter work criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Conspiracy of Silence : Queensland's Frontier Killing Times Timothy Bottoms , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2013 16070093 2013 single work non-fiction

'The Queensland frontier was more violent than any other Australian colony. From the first penal settlement at Moreton Bay in 1824, as white pastoralists moved into new parts of country, violence invariably followed. Many tens of thousands of Aboriginals were killed on the Queensland frontier. Europeans were killed too, but in much smaller numbers.

'The cover-up began from the start: the authorities in Sydney and Brisbane didn't want to know, the Native Police did their deadly work without hindrance, and the pastoralists had every reason to keep it to themselves. Even today, what we know about the killing times is swept aside again and again in favour of the pioneer myth.

'Conspiracy of Silence is the first systematic account of frontier violence in Queensland. Following in the tracks of the pastoralists as they moved into new lands across the state in the nineteenth century, Timothy Bottoms identifies massacres, poisonings and other incidents, including many that no-one has documented in print before. He explores the colonial mindset and explains how the brutal dispossession of Aboriginal landowners continued over decades.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 3 y separately published work icon Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland Timothy Bottoms , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1999 8037753 1999 single work non-fiction

'From time immemorial, a people called the Djabugay lived in the rainforests behind Cairns in Tropical Far North Queensland. Trade routes from the coast to the lush tablelands and beyond linked established settlements; outrigger canoes voyaged along the coast and out into the Great Barrier Reef.'

'Today, 130 years after the coming of the white man, the Djabugay are a remnant - their lands taken away from them, their Storywaters partially lost. But they are a remnant determined to make their way in a transformed world.'

'Djabugay Country is the story of this people and their struggle - what happened to them and how it happened. It takes us from first contact between the rainforest dwellers and the newcomers to the present day. Through accounts of the lives of families and individuals, it shows how out of dispossession and tragedy has come strength and hope.' (Source: Google Books website)

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