Friday essay: the 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
- Written by Anna Clark, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
Detail from Julie Shiels' 1954 poster White on black: The annihilation of Aboriginal people and their culture cannot be separated from the destruction of nature.State Library of Victoria
It’s 50 years since the anthropologist WEH Stanner gave the 1968 Boyer Lectures — a watershed moment for Australian history. Stanner argued that...
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