Kate Fullagar Kate Fullagar i(A142292 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 7 y separately published work icon Bennelong and Phillip Kate Fullagar , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster , 2023 26515455 2023 single work biography

The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both.

'Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip the colony’s first governor, and Bennelong the Eora leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has never settled.

'Fullargar’s account is also the first full biography of Bennelong of any kind and it challenges many misconceptions, among them that he became alienated from his people and that Phillip was a paragon of Enlightenment benevolence. It tells the story of the men’s marriages, including Bennelong’s best-known wife, Barangaroo, and Phillip’s unusual domestic arrangements, and places the period in the context of the Aboriginal world and the demands of empire.

'To present this history afresh, Bennelong & Phillip relates events in reverse, moving beyond the limitations of typical Western ways of writing about the past, which have long privileged the coloniser over the colonised. Bennelong’s world was hardly linear at all, and in Fullagar’s approach his and Phillip’s histories now share an equally unfamiliar framing.' (Publication summary)

1 Why Does Truth Come Third? Kate Fullagar , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , June 2021;

'The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians'

1 The Story of Bennelong Is Potent and Evocative – but It Is Being Contested Kate Fullagar , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 8 July 2017;

'Some historians have begun to question the enduring and tragic touchstones of the Aboriginal warrior’s life.'

1 Bennelong in Britain Kate Fullagar , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , no. 33 2009; (p. 31-51)
1 Preface : Woollarawarre Bennelong: Rethinking the Tragic Narrative Kate Fullagar , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , no. 33 2009; (p. 3-6)
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