Maralinga's Long Shadow

Christobel Mattingley

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781952533426

Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.
Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963, and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community. This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honors Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• CHAPTER ONE: BEFORE MARALINGA
• CHAPTER TWO: A SPECIAL BABY IS BORN
• CHAPTER THREE: LIFE AT OOLDEA
• CHAPTER FOUR: MARALINGA
• CHAPTER FIVE: CHILDHOOD – GOOD TIMES AND BAD
• CHAPTER SIX: ATOM BOMBS ON ANANGU LANDS
• CHAPTER SEVEN: MICHAEL
• CHAPTER EIGHT: MARRIAGE AND MARALINGA
• CHAPTER NINE: REFUGEES, PRISONERS, AND REBUILDERS OF COMMUNITY
• CHAPTER TEN: YVONNE THE ARTIST
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: MOTHER TO MANY – CARING AND SHARING
• CHAPTER TWELVE: THE LOST IS FOUND
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE HAPPIEST YEARS – MICHAEL
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: CANCER AND THE CEMETERY
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN: ANOTHER LOSS
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: MARALINGA’S LONG SHADOW
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: TOO YOUNG TO DIE
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• MAP
• GLOSSARY
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• SOURCES
• TIMELINE
• INDEX