Telling Tennant's story : the strange career of the great Australian silence / Dean Ashenden.
Publication details: Melbourne, VIC : Black Inc, 2022.Description: xiv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760641757
- Ashenden, Dean
- National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (Australia). Bringing them home
- Warumungu (Australian people)
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
- Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek
- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek
- Australia
- Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Social conditions
- Australia -- Politics and government
- Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- Race relations
- Tennant Creek (N.T.) -- History
- Australia -- Race relations
- Australian
- History (Australia)
- All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 305.899 ASH | Available | 071236 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The tale of a town, and of 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 in 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.