Books & Poetry
To mark National Sorry Day, this extract from a new book on the stolen generations by Brian Butler and John Bond details how Australia’s efforts to reconcile with the First Australians compares with other countries still coming to terms with their colonial past.
Theatre
Brothers Wreck is a well-written play which offers its audience a rare experience in theatre: the opportunity to watch something intensely real which could potentially influence human relations in this country.
SBS’s ‘First Contact’ – which has returned former One Nation senator David Oldfield to the spotlight – seems more concerned with white drama than Indigenous stories, writes Ben Neutze.
“Two thousand generations of civilisation and culture, all of it now smashed against the reality of white settlement …”
