Looking for Blackfellas' Point

An Australian History of Place

By: Mark Mckenna

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Paperback | 1 August 2002

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A history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia’s relations with Indigenous people - what happened between us, how we learnt to forget and, finally, how we came to confront the truth about our past and build a movement for reconciliation.

About the Author

Mark McKenna is an Australian Research Council Fellow currently based in the History Department at the Australian National University in Canberra. His first book, The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996 (CUP, 1996), was co-winner of the Australian Historical Studies Association's WK Hancock Prize in 1998. He is a frequent contributor to public debate in the press and on radio, and has written widely on Australian history.

His interests range across the politics of history in Australia, to the republic and constitutional reform, Australian federation and now, with Looking For Blackfellas' Point, indigenous history, regional history, and the politics of reconciliation.

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Local History

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Geographical terms
Introduction
Dispossession
'Without treaty, bargain or apology'	p. 28
'Quietly, and Aborigines submitted'	p. 33
Did the NSW Government and the Colonial Office intend that the rights of Aboriginal people in south-eastern New South Wales be protected?	p. 46
'What might have been'	p. 49
Forgetting
'A cult of disremembering'?	p. 62
'This wonderful invasion'	p. 65
Emily's story	p. 79
Making settler history	p. 84
Abandonment
The architecture of grace	p. 98
'Waiting for civilisation - longing for home'	p. 100
Agent of civilisation	p. 117
'This black mother earth': The journals of Oswald Brierly	p. 120
'Victims of singular neglect'	p. 135
Waiting for Eden	p. 138
Confrontation
New history, new politics	p. 156
'We are all one': Aboriginal people in Eden-Monaro, 1860-1960	p. 162
'Friendly but firm discrimination': The fight for Aboriginal housing in Bega, 1960-1970	p. 173
Raising a different flag: The struggle for Aboriginal rights in south-eastern New South Wales in the 1970s	p. 191
'A very hurting thing': Apologising for history	p. 202
Conclusion: Looking for Blackfellas' Point III	p. 218
Notes	p. 231
Select bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 265
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