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'The Wailing is about memories: about the "long time", of poison in the flour, deadening years of protection and assimilation. But is also about the pride and power of black Australia in 1993. The Wailing is Australia's first national black oral history. Aboriginal history is oral history.' Source: Back cover.

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Dedication: For those who refused to die and for the eyes of children.

* Contents derived from the Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Heinemann , 1993 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

Kilayurilapa : I Don't Want to Forget, Dusty Stevens , Joyce Ingram , Polly Smith , Hazel Catlin , Elsie Rose Jones , Sunshine Williams , Ern Catlin , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 15-36)

Leaping like Witches, Pat O'Shane , Ralph Winmar , Alf Bamblett , Ted Wilkes , Tombo Winters , Geraldine Briggs , Isabel Flick , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 37-81)

I Be Crying, Gertie Sambo , Koppa Yunkaporta , Ida West , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work life story (p. 83-101)

Under the Mission Bell, Joyleen Abbott , Henry Fourmile , Roslyn Choikee , Topsy Wolmby , Bruce Yunkaporta , Gordon Coulthard , Mark McKenzie , Agnes Palmer , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 103-135)

Swimming for Lilies, Wadjularbinna , Victoria Archibald , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 137-166)

Broken Dreams, Lana Abbott , Archie Roach , Cadley Sambo , Donnas Barker , Alf Drew , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 167-193)

Born in that Hard Time, Nellie Sheridan , Monty Prior , Carl Wyles , Millie Taylor , Dick Purvis , Willie Williams , Eric Panaga , Furley Gardner , Amos Donovan , Angus Wallam , Henry Clarke , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 195-236)

Bit of Flour and Tea and Sugar, June E. Barker , Roy Barker , Julie Whitton , Emmanuel Cooper , Doris Graham , single work oral history (p. 237-277)

Ordinary White, Maggie Morris , Bruce Munro , Charles Perkins , Lionel Rose , Kevin Marr , Tommy Lyons , Dave Champion , Ray Orchard , Veronica Brodie , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 279-318)

Eraritjaritjaka Albutjika : Longing to Return Home, David Mowaljarlai , Gerald Quayle , Shane Phillips , Ngarla Kunoth , Annette Peardon , Eve Mumewa D. Fesl , Priscilla Boney , Hudson Boney , Brian Champion , Joe Burgoyne , Noel Blair , Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 319-355)