“Brandy” of Dungog: a glimpse of a life
White accounts of the lives of Australian Indigenous people are usually condescending, especially those written while the ethnic cleansing of Aboriginal people was in its later stages. I don't intend to offend with that choice of words, incidentally. I hope that fair-minded and objective white readers will understand my meaning: that whatever motives any particular white people may have had, the overall effect of the takeover of the country easily met modern definitions of genocide. That's not to say that cordial relationships did not occur, nor that good intentions were absent. History doesn't deserve to be…
