\'Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia\' by Janine Roberts is a new edition of a seminal illustrated work of history that had an enormous impact in Australia when first published there in 1981, for it revealed Australia\'s hidden story and its shame.
The author believes: \'Without understandin.
This is a history for our times that tells of atrocities but points at ways to protect our earth by learning from the Aborigines.
The book in an update tells how Aboriginal communities are today faced by renewed threats from uranium miners.
It is however an ongoingstruggle. miles of tropical forest rich in food sources.
It tells, not just of the devastation caused by gold, uranium and diamond mining, but also of victories: of how a community removed in irons in the 1960s returned to reoccupy its land; how a nation whose ancestors defeated the Dutch in 1606 has now persuaded Shell to leave its strip-mining lease over 560 sq.
It describes how the mining industry led the charge onto the remaining Aboriginal lands.
It tells what life in Australia was like before the British arrived, why Aborigines were falsely said to be nomads, and dispels the myth that Aborigines did not fight for their land - by describing the widespread nature of the fighting that ensued, a fight that was still waged against terrible odds in the remote parts of Australia in the 1930s.
It is both fascinating and a myth-buster.
If you know about the American Indians but nothing about Australian Aborigines, this is the book for you.
My task is to commend Massacres to Mining as the most telling exposure of the evil ever done.\' This powerful work documents, from both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal sources, the impact of British settlement on the Aborigines of Australia.
The effect on myself was profound.
The eminent Australian literary figure Xavier Herbert wrote of the author: \'She handles her history with a restraint that makes it a work deserving to be established as a classic in our history. \'Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia\' by Janine Roberts is a new edition of a seminal illustrated work of history that had an enormous impact in Australia when first published there in 1981, for it revealed Australia\'s hidden story and its shame
