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'Using documentary sources, Governors story is traced from his childhood at Denison town to his execution in 1901.' (Source: TROVE)
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The Life of Jimmy Governor
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 3 no. 1-2 1979; (p. 163-164)
— Review of The Life of Jimmy Governor 1979 single 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...
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The Life of Jimmy Governor
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 3 no. 1-2 1979; (p. 163-164)
— Review of The Life of Jimmy Governor 1979 single 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...
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