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'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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[Review] Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , October vol. 7 no. 2 2000; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland 1999 single work non-fiction 'In these times of racial tension, I sometimes find myself imagining the kind of book our current Prime Minister should read to begin escaping from his myopia about the present and amnesia about the past. I am referring, of course, to his stubbornly maintained innocence about the intrinsic nature of Australian race relations; his touching faith that somehow white mateship conquers all and his peculiar conclusion that those who expose racism in their research are somehow its instigators.' (Introduction) -
[Review] Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , October vol. 7 no. 2 2000; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland 1999 single work non-fiction 'In these times of racial tension, I sometimes find myself imagining the kind of book our current Prime Minister should read to begin escaping from his myopia about the present and amnesia about the past. I am referring, of course, to his stubbornly maintained innocence about the intrinsic nature of Australian race relations; his touching faith that somehow white mateship conquers all and his peculiar conclusion that those who expose racism in their research are somehow its instigators.' (Introduction) -
An Alternative Story of Cairns
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 7 April no. 198 1999; (p. 25)
— Review of Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland 1999 single work non-fiction 'For thousands of years a people called the Djabugay lived in the rain forests behind Cairns in far north Queensland...'
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An Alternative Story of Cairns
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 7 April no. 198 1999; (p. 25)
— Review of Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland 1999 single work non-fiction 'For thousands of years a people called the Djabugay lived in the rain forests behind Cairns in far north Queensland...' -
[Review] Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , October vol. 7 no. 2 2000; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland 1999 single work non-fiction 'In these times of racial tension, I sometimes find myself imagining the kind of book our current Prime Minister should read to begin escaping from his myopia about the present and amnesia about the past. I am referring, of course, to his stubbornly maintained innocence about the intrinsic nature of Australian race relations; his touching faith that somehow white mateship conquers all and his peculiar conclusion that those who expose racism in their research are somehow its instigators.' (Introduction) -
[Review] Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , October vol. 7 no. 2 2000; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Djabugay Country : An Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland 1999 single work non-fiction 'In these times of racial tension, I sometimes find myself imagining the kind of book our current Prime Minister should read to begin escaping from his myopia about the present and amnesia about the past. I am referring, of course, to his stubbornly maintained innocence about the intrinsic nature of Australian race relations; his touching faith that somehow white mateship conquers all and his peculiar conclusion that those who expose racism in their research are somehow its instigators.' (Introduction)
Last amended 22 May 2017 13:35:17
Subjects:
- Cairns, Cairns area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
- Far North Queensland, Queensland,
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