Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government.
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"In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also sensed the savagery lurking in white society. Manners matte…
Provides a commentary with resonances surrounding identity, dispossession, memory and community. Based within the lands of the Gunditchmurra of Victoria, the author ranges across the national contemporary stage, critiquing Australian complacency and ignorance, or rather the grea…
