Part One: Massacres

The country has another past: Queensland and the History Wars

'Hard evidence': the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania

Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted - Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia

Part Two: Myths

Remembering the referendum with compassion

Idle men: the eighteenth-century roots of the Indigenous indolence myth

'These unoffending people': myth, history and the idea of Aboriginal resistance in David Collins' Account of the English Colony in New South Wales

Demythologising Flynn, with Love: contesting missionaries in Central Australia in the twentieth century

Part Three: Memory and Oral History

Paul Robeson's visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960

Using poetry to capture the Aboriginal voice in oral history transcripts

Part Four: Identity, Myth and Memory

Making a debut: myths, memories and mimesis

Identity and identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos

Urban Aboriginal ceremony: when seeing is not believing

Island Home Country: working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania

Part Five: The Stolen Generations

Reconciliation without history: state crime and state punishment in Chile and Australia

Overheard - conversations of a museum curator

On the significance of saying 'sorry': Apology and reconciliation in Australia

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