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'Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This... memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures.
Briscoe's... narrative combines his [own], and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.' Source: Publisher's blurb
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Dedication: For my brother Bill (1944-2003) who served his country well. (vii)
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Two Special Lives Celebrated
2010
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 24 March no. 472 2010; (p. 42) 'An audience of well-wishers and colleagues attended the recent Sydney launch of two major works celebrating the lives of Gordon Briscoe and Joy Janaka Wiradjuir Williams.' Source: Koori Mail no. 472, 24 March 2010
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Two Special Lives Celebrated
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 24 March no. 472 2010; (p. 42) 'An audience of well-wishers and colleagues attended the recent Sydney launch of two major works celebrating the lives of Gordon Briscoe and Joy Janaka Wiradjuir Williams.' Source: Koori Mail no. 472, 24 March 2010
- Adelaide, South Australia,