Book description
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars
David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history.
This is a richly detailed saga of…
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This book is so timely. In Australia, we’ve just had a referendum on including an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution. It failed because most Australians didn’t know enough about our history to see that we need to listen attentively to First Nations people.
What David Marr has given us in Killing for Country is a grim, long, cinematic account of frontier violence. Marr is well known in Australia as a trenchant journalist, writer, and broadcaster. Recently, he learned that two ancestors were among the Native Police forces who committed massacres.
He presents this terrible family history with a…
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