Blood on the Wattle, 9781741100082
Paperback
Uncover Australia’s hidden history: the shocking scale of Aboriginal massacres.

Blood on the Wattle

Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2003

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Summary

Voted one of the ten most influential works on non-fiction of the last century, Blood on the Wattle draws together, in a single volume, most of the information about the massacres of Aboriginal people that have been recorded in books and journals. It also creates a broad-based level of awareness of the scale of the massacres of Aboriginal people so that this dimension of Australian history can become part of the Australian consciousness.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781741100082
ISBN-10:1741100089
Author:Bruce Elder
Publisher:New Holland Publishers
Imprint:New Holland Publishers
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Edition:3rd
Release Date:31 March 2003
Weight:610g
Dimensions:24mm x 230mm x 172mm
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Critics Review

“I was given [Blood on the Wattle] by a cousin of mine who works for Aboriginal Affairs and I was in a daze. I mean, I was just reading page after page after page of massacres and really the only thing that I knew of my Aboriginality was that I belonged to the Wiradjuri tribe. Then I came to a page where most of the Wiradjuri tribe were wiped out…” –Evonne Cawley, The Midday Show, 18 May 1992

About The Author

Bruce Elder

Bruce Elder is a writer, commentator, and currently a full-time journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald specialising in travel and popular culture. His other areas of expertise include film, television and popular music. He has written extensively about Australia and has a passion for Australian history. He has been involved in writing over 60 books, including Blood on the Wattle which, in 2000, was nominated as one of the 10 most influential works of non-fiction published in Australia in the twentieth century.

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