Shortlisted, Ernest Scott Award, 2013

The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons, Anthony Martin Fernando condemned the failure of British rule in his country. Fernando is believed to be the first Aboriginal person to protest conditions in Australia from the streets of Europe. Paisley’s account dramatically shifts our understanding of the international reach of Aboriginal protest in this era.

2012, pb, 230x152mm, 256pp, b&w illus

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