From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories

From the Edge: Australia's Lost HistoriesMarch 1797. Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria. Five British sailors and twelve Bengali seamen swim ashore after their longboat is ripped apart in a storm. The British penal colony at Port Jackson is 700 kilometres to the north, their fellow survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove stranded far to the south on a tiny island in Bass Strait. To rescue them and save their own lives, they have no alternative. They set out to walk to Sydney. What follows is

Colonisation in Australia is not over

It tells of Vietnam

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book AwardPatti Smith's definitive memoir: an evocative

Narcisse and the other survivors crossed almost 1000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of Far North Queensland

The muted yet richly inky colour palette and frameless city-and-dream-scapes of Jessica's artwork match perfectly the transcendence of the story

Within this transitional state”called

that family can be many things

Both tender and fierce

but we know it is at risk

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65

The gripping story of Waipuldanya

excused or explained away