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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...