Rebellion at Coranderrk
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Rebellion at Coranderrk

  1. 342 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Rebellion at Coranderrk

About this book

More than a century ago an Aboriginal community in Victoria campaigned for recognition of their right to occupy and control the small acreage they had farmed for 25 years. Others wanted to develop this tract. Government spokesmen denied that the occupants had inherited any rights to this land and declared that, anyway, they were not really Aborigines. This book is about the rebellion at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station between 1874 and 1886. It describes how Coranderrk families fought to keep their land. To explain why they fought I must begin with the years before, to show what this 'miserable spadeful of ground' meant to them, and how they came to be there. Finally, I sketch what ultimately happened.

First published in 1998, 12 years after the death of its author Diane Barwick, Rebellion at Coranderrk was an attempt to rectify some of the injustices of the past two-hundred-plus years in Australia, and to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

It remains acutely relevant.

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Information

Publisher
ANU Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781760466497
eBook ISBN
9781760466503

Table of contents

  1. List of Figures
  2. Foreword to the 2024 Edition
  3. Author’s Preface
  4. Editors’ Preface
  5. Introduction: Of History and Happenstance
  6. 1. Kulin and Ngamajet
  7. 2. The Years Before
  8. 3. A New Beginning
  9. 4. Mr Green’s Way
  10. 5. Proprietors for the First Decade
  11. 6. The Board Takes Control
  12. 7. Loss of a Good Master
  13. 8. The Threat of Removal
  14. 9. Who Owns the Land?
  15. 10. Cause for Rebellion
  16. 11. Mrs Bon Intervenes
  17. 12. A Brief Victory
  18. 13. Final Defeat
  19. 14. The End of the Story
  20. 15. Dispersal
  21. Appendix 1: The History of Farm Development at Coranderrk
  22. Appendix 2: Membership of the Boards
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index