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Selected Reading

Life stories

Matters of the Heart, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, HarperCollins, 2023

No Man’s Land: Women of the Northern Territory, Barbara James, Collins, 1989

Jessie Litchfield: Grand Old Lady of the TerritoryJanet Dickinson, Watson Ferguson, 1982

Placed in Our Care: Millie Shankelton, missionary to Aborigines, Douglas Brown, Eider Books, 2023

Quality of Life: a reflection of life in Darwin during the post-war yearsMaisie Austin, Colemans, Darwin, 1992

Under the Mango Tree: Oral Histories with Indigenous People from the Top End, collected by Peg Havnen, NT Writers Centre, 2001

Half a Century in Arnhem LandElla Shepherdson, PanPrint, SA, 1981

A Straight-out Man: F.W. Albrecht and Central Australian AboriginesBarbara Henson, Melbourne University Press, 1992

Flying Doctor, Clyde Fenton, Georgian House, third edition 1982

Frank Flynn MSC: A Remarkable Territorian, Doris M. Allen, Chevalier Press, 1994

Contemporary history and discussion

The War Against the Past, Frank Furedi, Polity, 2024

'Furedi argues that a strong personal identity depends on the ability of children to inherit a meaningful past. But for over a century, the chain of transmission has been under continual assault from progressives whose aim is to ruin our view of the past and render it hateful and worthless to us.' Yoram Hazany

'Furedi shows that without a past, it is very difficult to find meaning in the present or hope for the future.' Jonathan Haidt

See Jonathan Sumption's review on History Reclaimed at https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/the-war-against-the-past/

Free Speech: Ten  Principles for a Connected World, Timothy Garton Ash, Atlantic Books, 2016

'Garton Ash's larger project is not merely to defend freedom of expression, but to promote civil, dispassionate discourse, within and across cultures, even about the most divisive and emotive subjects' Faramerz Dabhoiwolo, The Guardian 

See University of Oxford podcasts at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/free-speech-ten-principles-connected-world