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Tim Rowse

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A new history of ‘blackbirding’ favours moral condemnation at the expense of complexity

Determined to illustrate ‘slavery’, Ryan Butta’s history of ‘blackbirding’ says little of the labourers’ recovery and resilience.

20.10.2026 40

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Tim Rowse

Aboriginal historian Barry Corr vividly investigates colonisation – but is less convincing on politics

What right did settler society have to intervene in Aboriginal life? The humanitarian tradition has no adequate answers, says Barry Corr.

05.10.2026 30

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Tim Rowse

Who was First Nations resistance fighter Musquito? A historian investigates a legend

Musquito’s life and death can be read through the lens of a history of invasion and resistance. Or of the difficulties of being placed between two...

07.07.2026 40

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Tim Rowse

‘A country to be heard and danced’: journeying into Australia’s menacing interior spaces

Nicolas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson’s new book suggests only Aboriginal people, and the misfits who cleave to them, can know the...

13.08.2025 30

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Tim Rowse