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In this historical clip, Baron Nigel Biggar explains why Australia’s settlement must be understood in its global context, noting how British egalitarian culture helped shape one of the world’s greatest modern societies.

You can watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/JQUkVcNZxG0

Baron Nigel Biggar CBE is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, author and theologian. His most recent books are Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (William Collins, 2023) and What’s Wrong with Rights? (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Reference list:
Geoffrey Blainey, The Story of Australia's People, vol.1 (Great general information on Indigenous culture and practices. The best place to start.)

Manning Clark, Select Documents in Australian History, vol.1. Early documents on British-Aboriginal interactions. https://archive.org/details/selectdocumentsi0001clar/page/n5/mode/2up

Keith Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, vols.1 and 3. Very informative on the fate of Tasmanian Aborigines (vol.1), and an exhaustive account of the "stolen generations".

Ron Brunton, Betraying the Victims: The 'Stolen Generations Report'. Outlines the many methodological flaws on the Report. Available here: https://ipa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/archive/IPABackgrounder10-1.pdf

Watkin Tench – Diary (many editions with many titles). https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00084.html

David Collins, An Account of the English Colony in NSW (1804). https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00010.html

William Hughes, The Australian Colonies (1852). Excerpts available here: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6RsXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

William Buckley (escaped convict, lived among Aborigines for 32 years), Life and Adventures of William Buckley (many editions). https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks21/2100161h.html

George Wathen, The Golden Colony (1855). https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qf1hORe-040C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition (1861). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008642150

Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria (1878). https://books.google.com.au/books?id=As9AAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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