The brothers up North and the sisters down South: The Mackay family and the Frontier.

From: Hecate | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Allen, Margaret | Copyright information

As the beneficiaries of the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples, European women, along with men were complicit in an imperialist civilising project that saw the near destruction of Australia's indigenous peoples and their language and Culture. (1)

The question now arises as to whether it is possible to have a reconciled history of Australia, within which all Australians can locate themselves. (2)

As non-Aboriginal Australians many of us wake from what has been...

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