THE outstanding two-part television series The Secret River reminds us of our nation’s early history.
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Although Kate Grenville’s book of the same title was planned to be a biography, it turned into a work of fiction, a novel that became a multi-award-winning bestseller 10 years ago.
However, if history doesn’t reveal that there was a massacre of Aboriginal people in the Hawkesbury River area, we do know that there was fierce fighting there.
The television series, and the book, should serve as a reminder of the countless massacres of Aboriginal men, women and children that took place in all parts of Australia.
My father had just left school at the age of 14 when the last recorded massacre of over 100 Aborigines took place near Alice Springs in 1928. That’s right 1928!
P.S. Borrow or buy The Secret River and read this award-winning book.
Keith Curry,
Orange