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'As a Yorta Yorta academic and anthropologist who teaches and researches upon the land of my people, I was honoured to be asked to review this book by Bain Attwood. Uncle William Cooper has inspired many Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people through his work as a human rights activist. Through his activism, Uncle William contributed to the identity of the Yorta Yorta community, serving as an Elder in Melbourne, Shepparton and across the world. The Yorta Yorta community honour his contribution where possible, and his descendants carry on his work today by representing and honouring his work in education and legal institutions.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 19 no. 4 2022 25602044 2022 periodical issue 'On 15 February 1952 time stopped in Australia. As the body of the late George VI was conveyed from Westminster to Windsor, Australians observed a ‘Nation-wide Pause for [the] King’s Death’. ‘A blanket of silence’, the Melbourne Argus reported, ‘fell on Sydney’s 1¾ million people at noon’; ‘Brisbane became a “dead city” for two minutes’. Across the country, ‘Cities, towns, and villages … paid the tribute of silence to the late King’. When the noise returned, it included the voices of 5000 at Carlton’s Royal Exhibition Building belting out George’s favourite hymn ‘Abide with Me’, and innumerable speeches honouring the much-loved and respected monarch. Radio stations everywhere (including every Melbourne radio station) announced the cancellation of regular programming so they could rebroadcast the BBC’s coverage of the King’s funeral service.' (Benjamin Mountford, Ellen Warne, Kate Fullagar and Jessica Lake : Editorial introduction) 2022 pg. 835-837
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