This Whispering in Our Hearts

This Whispering in Our Hearts
Author: Henry Reynolds
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1998-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1743430116
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Shortlisted, Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1998 Shortlisted, Individual Category, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards 1998 Highly Commended, Human Rights Award in Arts Non-Fiction, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1998 'How is it our minds are not satisfied?. What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' So ended a public lecture given in 1842 by prominent Sydney barrister, Richard Windeyer. The lecture was meant to be a reasoned demolition of the rights of Australia's original inhabitants. But it ended with a question, acknowledgement of a troubled conscience. Henry Reynolds has listened to this whisper, this disquiet. It has led him into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten people who followed their consciences, at great personal cost. From these lives, This Whispering in Our Hearts constructs a different history of Australia, seen through the eyes of those who said no, those whose legacy is so important in the current debate about this country's future. The story begins with Australia's first punitive expedition in December 1790 and the first clash of conscience about the use of violence which took place between Governor Arthur Phillip and Lieutenant William Dawes. It ends on the eve of World War II with humanitarian reformers like Mary Bennett still expressing deep anger about the condition of the Aborigines and the attitudes of white Australia.

This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
Author: Henry Reynolds
Publisher: NewSouth
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1742244319
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'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitudes to Indigenous people. His now-classic book The Whispering in Our Hearts constructed an alternative history of Australia through the eyes of those who felt disquiet and disgust at the brutality of dispossession. These men and women fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites. The unease of these humanitarians about the morality of white settlement has not dissipated and their legacy informs current debates about reconciliation between black and white Australia. Revisiting this history, in this new edition Reynolds brings fresh perspectives to issues we grapple with still. Those who argue for justice, reparation, recognition and a treaty will find themselves in solidarity with those who went before. But this powerful book shows how much remains to be done to settle the whispering in our hearts. 'No other historian can match Henry Reynolds' impact on Australians' understanding of their frontier history and its troubled inheritance.' - Mark McKenna

Jackson's Track Revisited

Jackson's Track Revisited
Author: Carolyn Landon
Publisher: Monash University ePress
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2006
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN: 0975747576
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"In Jackson's Track revisited Carolyn Landon returns to the story told by Daryl Tonkin in Jackson's Track (Penguin, Australia, 1999) - the tale of his life in the great Gippsland forest living among Aboriginal timber workers. Just as his family hoped, Tonkin's memoir has created the space for more stories. In Jackson's Track revisited, the voices of Aboriginal people who lived at the Track mingle with those of the White Australians who tried to 'improve' their lives in the 1950's, the era of assimilation. An exploration of the historical factors surrounding Tonkin's story leads to discussion of the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board, the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League and the policy of assimilation that was so prevalent in mid-twentieth century Australia"--Back cover.

Telling Tennant's Story

Telling Tennant's Story
Author: Dean Ashenden
Publisher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1743822251
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Tennant Creek and Australia’s Unresolved Past Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a subject of overwhelming and enduring significance for all Australians.' —Robert Manne The tale of a town, and a nation Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact. Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of 'relations between two racial groups within a single field of life' has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history, Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence – from its beginnings in the first encounters of black and white, through the work of the early anthropologists, the historians and the courts in landmark cases about land rights and the Stolen Generations, to still-continuing controversy. In a moving finale, Ashenden goes back to Tennant Creek once more to meet for the first time some of his Aboriginal contemporaries, and to ask how the truths of Australia's story can best be told.

Double Vision

Double Vision
Author: Margaret Slocomb
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2022-12-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1982296380
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Double Vision serves as a prequel to Among Australian Pioneers, which highlighted the experience of Chinese indentured laborers on the northern frontier from 1848 to 1880—a time of intense conflict. With this latest book, historian Margaret Slocomb responds to a call for more regional histories of early contact relations, so we can understand their complexity as well as the diversity of reactions and responses that followed. The author observes that encounters at the margins of settlement between new societies seeking profits and traditional owners defending their land are bruising, brutal affairs conducted beyond the reach of regular norms and conventions, and contested within a framework of conflicting, mutually incomprehensible and irreconcilable laws. The Northern Districts of Wide Bay and Burnett on the tribal lands of the Kabi Kabi and Wakka Wakka nations represented that frontier from roughly 1845 until Queensland formed a separate colony in 1859. Dispossession was violent by its very nature, but there was also accommodation and adaptation on one side, and compassionate advocacy on the other. Join the author as she seeks if not the full truth, at least a unified understanding of our shared history and mutual recognition of its contested nature.

Literary Journalism in Colonial Australia

Literary Journalism in Colonial Australia
Author: Willa McDonald
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3031317890
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This book traces the beginnings of literary (narrative) journalism in Australia. It contributes to evolving international definitions of the form, while providing a glimpse into Australia’s early press history and development as a nation. The book comprises two parts. The first examines the forerunners of literary journalism before and during the establishment of a free press, including the letters, diaries and journals of the early colonists, as well as sketches published in the first magazines and newspapers. The book asks if these were “reporting” when there was no thriving press until well into the 19th century -- many were written by women and convicts whose voices otherwise went unheard. The second part examines the first expressions of literary journalism in forms more recognisable today, covering topics as varied as homelessness in Melbourne, the Queensland trade in Pacific Islander labour, and Australia’s involvement in overseas wars, particularly the Boer War. The resulting cultural history reveals important milestones in the development of Australia’s press and literature, while demonstrating the concerns unveiled in colonial literary journalism still resonate in Australia in the 21st century.

Truth-Telling

Truth-Telling
Author: Henry Reynolds
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1742245110
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If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? If the 1901 parliament did not have control of the whole continent, particularly the North, by what right could the new nation claim it? The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the centuries-long legal position about British claims to the land far less imposing than it appears. In Truth-Telling, influential historian Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions, with his usual sharp eye and rigour, in a book that's about the present as much as the past. His work shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.

The Whispers of Our Hearts

The Whispers of Our Hearts
Author: Arianna Belle
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2021-04-18
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Here is a DEVOTIONAL book that is quite unique in its style. It is surely a testament of the Lord's love for me and His keeping power in my life as I journeyed through thick and thin on my path of life. While sitting before Him as He had taught me, I heard in my spirit the Whispers of His Heart and I spoke the whispers of my heart to Him as well. The range is broad...it canvasses the whole of life experiences with God's perfect loving comfort, instructions, understanding, compassion, mercies, wisdom, as He rejoiced with me and also suffered with me and so much more! All of these characteristics are expressed through the avenues of fresh prayers, the spirit of prophecy, prose, poetry, experiences with our Lord, fresh songs and praises to our King. I share these experiences with you to encourage and inspire you to draw closer to our Lord and thereby experience deeper and richer places in your spirit and in your life as you commune with our Father and Redeemer and Savior through the Holy Spirit. It is my hope and my prayer that those who read this devotional book will read it with their hearts and take their time to reflect and hear the words of the Holy Spirit for themselves, thereby, being wholly refreshed, encouraged and inspired. He says, "Come to Me and experience Me, let me nourish you as you eat and drink of Me and I will give you rest. I AM your Source of All." "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Luke 12:32 There is ALWAYS MORE of GOD to SEARCH OUT and DISCOVER throughout our entire lives in the invisible Kingdom of God!

Aquarius Revisited

Aquarius Revisited
Author: Peter O. Whitmer
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806512228
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Examines America in the sixties through the works of Burroughs, Ginsberg, Mailer, Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Leary, and Robins.