John Clay
Appreciating Aborigines
Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood
By Germaine Greer
Profile Books 229pp £7.99 order from our bookshop
Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia
By Frank Welsh
Allen Lane The Penguin Press 720pp £25 order from our bookshop
EACH YEAR, ON a particular day in May, crowds gather in major Australian cities trying to get the government to say sorry to the Aborigines. So far, every administration has refused. Now, in this forcefully argued book, Germaine Greer takes the cause a stage further. She proposes an Aborigine Republic of Australia.
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