Telling Tennant’s story : the strange career of the great Australian silence
Ashenden, Dean2022
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The tale of a town, and a nation. 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.
Telling Tennant’s story : the strange career of the great Australian silence / by Dean Ashenden ; read by Ant Neate.
Complete and unabridged.
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, 2022.℗2022.
7 audio discs (CD) (8 hr., 15 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Read by Ant Neate.
9781038608819
305.8991
English
Ashenden, DeanAboriginal Australians, Treatment ofAboriginal Australians -- Social conditionsAboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Tennant Creek -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Northern Territory -- Tennant CreekWarumungu (Australian people)Aboriginal Australians -- Government relationsTennant Creek (N.T.) -- Social conditionsTennant Creek (N.T.) -- Race relationsTennant Creek (N.T.) -- HistoryAustralia -- Politics and GovernmentAustralia -- Race relations
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