| Author | Raymond Evans |
| Year | 2023 |
| Title | Samuel Griffith and Queensland’s ‘War of Extermination’ |
| Publisher | Griffith University |
| Notes | Raymond Evans is a distinguished historian, and this scholarly work is an important contribution to some of the questions above and to more particular questions recently raised. Evans warns against a hero/villain dichotomy and we might all be wise to heed this warning when it comes to Griffith. What of Griffith’s role in the shameful period of our nation’s history, of mass killings and violence, that formed the context to our federating? This well researched, evidentiary piece is worthy of wide dissemination, and is an advance on the body of scholarship that must develop, a piece towards a much larger history that must be told. It puts forward more explanation, if not exculpation. How could it? To answer the question in the singular we must answer larger, broader, more fundamental questions as a citizenry. We must reckon with questions about this land, Australia. These are questions which seem in late 2023 harder to confront, but ever more necessary. The truth will out, even if it is not yet able to set us – all of us – free. |
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