Illustrations

2.1Aborigines in canoes

2.2An Aboriginal woman

2.3The ascension of Captain Cook

3.1Two Aboriginal warriors

3.2Rum Rebellion

3.3Bungaree

4.1Violence on the frontier

4.2Governor Arthur’s Proclamation to the Aborigines

4.3George Robinson’s Conciliation of the Aborigines of Van Diemen’s Land

4.4Aborigines in Sydney, 1839

4.5Colonial redemption

4.6Colonial arcady

5.1A group of diggers

5.2Aboriginal ceremony

5.3Shearers

5.4News from home

5.5The Exhibition building, Melbourne, 1880

6.1The Maritime Strike

6.2Henry Lawson

6.3Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin

6.4Native symbols

7.1Billy Hughes

7.2An improvised dwelling in the Depression

7.3Aboriginal Day of Mourning, 1938

7.4Douglas MacArthur and John Curtin

7.5Kokoda Track

8.1Bonegilla migrant reception centre, 1949

8.2Ben Chifley, Clement Attlee and H. V. Evatt

8.3Robert Menzies pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth

8.4Evdokia Petrova in Soviet custody, 1954

8.5The triumph of the supermarket

8.6Sydney teenagers, 1956

8.7Aboriginal children, Northern Territory

8.8The surf lifesaver

8.9Lyndon Baines Johnson and Harold Holt

9.1Malcolm Fraser

9.2Bob Hawke

9.3Paul Keating

9.4Save the Franklin River

9.5Qantas in Aboriginal livery

10.1The maritime dispute

10.2Children overboard

10.3John Howard

10.4Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard

10.5Sunrise Dam Gold Mine

10.6Tony Abbott

10.7The city of Wyndham

Maps

1.1Australia: the main rivers, cities and towns

1.2Sunda and Sahul

1.3Aboriginal Australia, showing location of groups

2.1Australia and the region

4.1Land exploration

5.1Boundaries of states and territories