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1 My People, Our Past Libby Connors , single work review
— Review of The Time to Write : Australian Women Writers 1890-1930 1993 anthology criticism biography
1 Tongerlongeter’s Story : Revisiting the Indomitable Military Leader Libby Connors , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 436 2021; (p. 13-14)

— Review of Tongerlongeter : First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero Henry Reynolds , Nicholas Clements , 2021 single work biography

Tongerlongeter was surely one of Australia’s toughest military leaders. Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements expressly narrate his story to affirm the place of the Frontier Wars in the Anzac pantheon. Reflexive conservative responses to such arguments – that Anzac Day commemorates only those who served in the Australian military – are flawed and outdated. The Tasmanian frontier is one of Australia’s best-documented cases of violent operations against Aboriginal people. In 1828, Governor George Arthur, unable to gain control over the ‘lamentable and protracted warfare’, issued a Demarcation Proclamation later enforced by the formation of Black Lines, military cordons stretching several hundred kilometres across southern and central Tasmania to secure the grasslands demanded by white settlers. Despite the efforts of Australia’s culture war protagonists led by Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant magazine, Tasmania’s Black Lines remain infamous in Australian history, with revisionist work emphasising the military planning, enormous cost, and extensive civilian involvement owing to Arthur’s declaration of a levée en masse, a form of conscription, to support the military operations. Comprising more than 2,200 soldiers and settlers, these army cordons remained ‘the largest domestic military offensive ever mounted on Australian soil’. Despite the forces arrayed against him, Tongerlongeter and his compatriots passed through the Black Lines with comparative ease in 1830. (Introduction)

1 [Review] Clio's Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians Libby Connors , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Politics and History , September vol. 65 no. 3 2019; (p. 510-511)

— Review of Clio’s Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians 2017 anthology criticism autobiography biography

'This is a book that practicing historians are sure to enjoy and that all writers of biography should read. Its twelve chapters cover the practice of autobiography, biographical introductions to Australian and Canadian “national” historians and to Australian female historians; it also includes research on the personal networks that bound the history departments of Australian universities up to the 1980s, those of American female historians in the interwar years, and the origins of that great national resource, the Australian Dictionary of Biography. There are also two chapters on British historians that offer insights into the intellectual histories of their eras, although Raphael Samuel's great contribution was to educational practice through the influential History Workshop Journal. If this seems a strange combination it is a product of the book's origins in an Australian National University workshop in 2015 which resulted in participants then contributing their papers to this edited collection.'  (Introduction)

1 9 y separately published work icon Warrior : A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier Warrior Libby Connors , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8532889 2015 single work biography

'In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, and a series of deadly raids on homesteads made even the townspeople of Brisbane anxious.'

'Young warrior Dundalli was renowned for his size and strength, and his elders gave him the task of leading the resistance against the Europeans' ever increasing incursions on their traditional lands. Their response was embedded in Aboriginal law and Dundalli became one of their greatest lawmen. With his band of warriors, he had the settlers in thrall for twelve years, evading capture again and again, until he was finally arrested and publicly executed.'

'Warrior is the extraordinary story of one of Australia's little-known heroes, one of many Aboriginal men to die protecting their country. It is also a fresh and compelling portrait of life in the early days of white settlement of Brisbane and south east Queensland.' (Source Publisher's website)

1 Reconstructing Sovereignty Libby Connors , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 8 July vol. 9 no. 205 2010; (p. 18-19)
1 Finally, An End To The 'Nigger' Brown Saga Libby Connors , 2008 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 October no. 436 2008; (p. 26)
'Congratulations too to Stephen Hagan who had the courage to fight on when the State and Federal governments turned their back on him, the Ku Klux Klan threatened him and John McDonald sought to bankrupt him and his family.' (Libby Connor, Koori Mail 8/10/2008)
1 1 y separately published work icon Conversations on the Condamine : An Oral History from the Murray Darling Basin Catherine Potter (editor), Sarah Moles (editor), Libby Connors (editor), Pam Postle (editor), Annandale : Envirobook , 2002 18372260 2002 single work anthology prose
1 Untitled Libby Connors , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 58 1998; (p. 201-202) Journal of Australian Studies , no. 60 1999; (p. 194-195)

— Review of South of My Days : A Biography of Judith Wright Veronica Brady , 1998 single work biography
1 My People, Our Past Libby Connors , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 22 no. 2 1995; (p. 127-131)

— Review of My Bundjalung People Ruby Langford Ginibi , 1994 single work autobiography ; Australian Literary Studies vol. 16 no. 4 1994 periodical issue anthology ; Oodgeroo Kathleen J. Cochrane , 1994 single work biography
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