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Necklace of Pearl

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November 2003, no. 256

North of Capricorn: The untold story of Australia’s north by Henry Reynolds

Allen & Unwin, $49.95 hb, 236 pp

Necklace of Pearl

by
November 2003, no. 256

When Christine Anu sings My Island Home, that great Neil Murray song, there’s always an irony. She’s not singing about the big island that tugs at the heartstrings of most Australians when they hear the song, but a far smaller, more remote home in Torres Strait where things are done differently. The big island-continent may be benign in its fortified insularity, a haven against contaminants from across the seas, but it’s those smaller islands that have, in the song, the qualities of freedom, harmony and belonging that matter.

Nicholas Jose reviews ‘North of Capricorn: The untold story of Australia’s north’ by Henry Reynolds

North of Capricorn: The untold story of Australia’s north

by Henry Reynolds

Allen & Unwin, $49.95 hb, 236 pp

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