'You have to have a story' - Aboriginal memory and opportunity, Hugh Brody

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000

The history of Australia is often told as a story of how settlers made productive use of an empty land, thus saving Aboriginal peoples from destitution. Modern Aboriginal land campaigns are based on different rememberings, finds Hugh Brody. They ‘reclaim’ the past as well as ‘claim’ the present, and in the process weave a unique tapestry of memory, ownership – and opportunity for a future. Read the rest of this post...

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'You have to have a story' - Aboriginal memory and opportunity, Hugh Brody