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'With the coming referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, the concept of “truth-telling” is currently getting more airtime than ever. For decades, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been calling on Australia to front up to the truth of the past so we can deal with the present and move towards a more positive and collaborative future. Until this truth has been confronted, the racist lies this country was built upon will continue to fester, erupting in more acts of violence and erasure.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: “Telling the truth shouldn’t take so long.”
– Professor Kate Auty
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Invitation to Remember : A Massacre in Western Australia
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 453 2023; (p. 11)
— Review of Kate Auty O’Leary of the Underworld : The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre 2023 single work review'This is no ordinary history book. It is in part an account of a massacre and in part a biographical study of one of the perpetrators, Patrick Bernard O’Leary, yet it reads more like a novel, or a prosecutor’s statement in court, than like a conventional history. It is a truly angry book, full of rage at the fact that the perpetrators of a massacre were never brought to justice, rage at the justice system’s treatment of Indigenous people. Its desire to ensure that the victims are never forgotten starts with the dedication, to Warrawalla Marga, an old woman ‘who was walked to her death with a chain around her neck by O’Leary and others in June 1926. She and all the others are not forgotten.’' (Introduction)
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Invitation to Remember : A Massacre in Western Australia
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 453 2023; (p. 11)
— Review of Kate Auty O’Leary of the Underworld : The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre 2023 single work review'This is no ordinary history book. It is in part an account of a massacre and in part a biographical study of one of the perpetrators, Patrick Bernard O’Leary, yet it reads more like a novel, or a prosecutor’s statement in court, than like a conventional history. It is a truly angry book, full of rage at the fact that the perpetrators of a massacre were never brought to justice, rage at the justice system’s treatment of Indigenous people. Its desire to ensure that the victims are never forgotten starts with the dedication, to Warrawalla Marga, an old woman ‘who was walked to her death with a chain around her neck by O’Leary and others in June 1926. She and all the others are not forgotten.’' (Introduction)
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