Truth Telling

"Reynolds is perhaps the most important living Australian historian."   - Paul Daley, The Guardian

What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? 

"No other historian can match Henry Reynolds’ impact on Australians’ understanding of their history and its troubled inheritance."  -  Mark McKenna

Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions in a book that's about the present as much as the past. This book shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.

"Reynolds’ books have shaped and defined our understanding of the conflicted history of Aboriginal-white relations."   -  Peter Stanley, The Sydney Morning Herald