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also hear Prof Reynolds on Saturday 20 October when he delivers the
Wilks oration at the Effective Living Centre at 7pm. CLICK HERE FOR
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Listening to the WHISPERING IN HIS OWN HEART, Professor Henry Reynolds
was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white
humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the
prevailing attitudes to Indigenous people. His now-classic book _This
Whispering in Our Hearts_ constructed an alternative history of
Australia through the eyes of those who felt disquiet and disgust at
the brutality of dispossession. These men and women fought for justice
for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and
criticised by their fellow whites. The unease of these humanitarians
about the morality of white settlement has not dissipated and their
legacy informs current debates about reconciliation between black and
white Australia.
Join the History Trust of South AUSTRALIA and the Dunstan Foundation
to hear Henry revisit this history, and bring fresh perspectives to
issues we grapple with still.
Doors open at 5.45pm. Lecture commences at 6.00pm.
Light refreshments will be provided.
HENRY REYNOLDS is one of Australia’s best-known historians. His
pioneering work has changed understandings of the Australian frontier
and given the cause of Reconciliation a historical underpinning. His
books include _The Other Side of the Frontier_, _Why Weren’t We
Told, What’s Wrong with Anzac?_, _Forgotten War_, which won the
Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize, _Unnecessary Wars _and most
recently _This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited_.
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