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On the long road to truth: new books on frontier history. (History).(The Australian Experience, Goodbye Bussamarai and In Looking for Blackfella's Point explore the history of race relations in Australia)(Book Review)

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| July 01, 2003 | Murray, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

AS EVERY schoolboy and girl and television viewer now knows, extensive and deadly frontier conflict scarred early Australia. The National Museum should (though it probably won't) thank Quadrant and Keith Windschuttle for provoking debate about the extent and nature of this conflict. Windschuttle's articles in Quadrant in 2000 inspired a forum at the Museum in December 2001, the papers from which are the basis of Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience (edited by Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster; National Museum of Australia, $39.95). And a surprisingly good book it is, one of three reviewed here and others to follow which add much to our understanding of the Australian ...

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